This was a cinema

I had a busy morning, with a few calls to make. So by the time I arrived on location to sketch the AXA insurance building, which used to be a cinema on Mary Street, the other sketchers were well under way. Never fear! I pulled out my light grey marker and worked super quick to establish the main volumes. I work in an A4 sketchbook, so there's a lot of page to cover. What interested me most was the interplay between the elaborate building at the Christmas decoration dangling above the street to the right of it. I was a gloriously sunny day, but cold. I could have sat in the sun, but then I would have been blinded as I needed to be looking South to see the beautiful windows. So I sat in the shade of the building itself. After the grey marker, I used my Sailor Fude to sketch the building. Then some colour pencil for more details. Finally, I added the blue sky and the sunny reflections from the buildings across the way. Lots of light dancing in Blue and Yellow! Straight lines? I don't do that!