Saturday, 26 April 2014

Ramsgate pen and ink drawing of Harbour Street from Corby's Tea Rooms

Drawing Harbour Street from Corby's Tea Rooms, which is in York Street, may seem a bit odd but this one, drawn this morning, is through the back door of Corby’s Tea Rooms looking across Albert Square at the back of Harbour Street. Oh well I suppose you either know Ramsgate fairly well or the sketch isn’t of much interest to you.

What can I say about Corby's Tea Rooms, clean, friendly, top quality, just about sums it up, here is what Trip Advisor has to say http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186314-d2005344-Reviews-Corby_s_Tea_Rooms-Ramsgate_Isle_of_Thanet_Kent_England.html#REVIEWS

What can I say about the sketch it took about half an hour, from about 8.30 to about 9am when I had to go off and open my bookshop, so I didn’t get time to colour it in.


Black Pitt Pen size S available from WH Smith, Hobbycraft, Ebay and so on for around £2.50 and lasts for about 500 A4 sketches like this, £2.99 sketch pad from The Works in Ramsgate Garden Centre, this is the black one with the elastic to keep it shut, 48 sheets of 150gsm paper, don’t get the one with the thinner paper. The big snag with pen and ink is no rubbing out, so if you lose concentration you ruin the whole sketch.  

For any aspiring art critics here is a photo of the view I drew.
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4 comments:

  1. John HolyerApril 27, 2014 9:01 am

    Mullins restaurant in Margate Old Town is superb.

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    1. Michael ChildApril 27, 2014 10:35 am

      What’s the view from the seats like John? I spend ages wandering around trying to find somewhere to sketch from when it isn’t good enough weather to sketch from outside, another issue which I get on Harbour Parade in Ramsgate is that during the before work period in the morning – from about seven when most places open to about nine, or quarter to in the case of Margate when I have to leave for work – is starting to sketch and then a van parking in front of me and obscuring the view. Basically any help finding places to early morning sketch from is always a great help.

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    2. John HolyerApril 27, 2014 10:56 am

      Michael,

      The view is not much. It overlooks the 'Old Pie Factory' opposite and a few shops.

      I agree with you about the parking along Harbour Parade where they occasionaly even double park.

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  2. Michael ChildApril 27, 2014 7:08 pm

    Added to sidebar anon

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.