As it was a dull damp and drizzly day we made for
Canterbury, on days like this my children like to look in the clothes shops.
Buying a few books along the way I made for Café Chambers,
as far as I know the only case or restaurant in Canterbury which has a table
with a view of the cathedral, having secured the table by devious means
here is the pen drawing of the Canterbury Cathedral
and a photograph of the same view for aspiring art critics.
To be honest there is a lot of repetition in the architecture of this bit of
the cathedral, which can be a bit boring to draw, there are also strange
variations which catch you out.
Having sat for far to long I went and wandered around mostly
in the cathedral grounds and took a few photos.
At this point I realised that I wanted to do the other view
from Canteen, i.e. looking out of the same window as last Sunday http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/a-pen-and-ink-sketch-of-sun-hotel-in.html
but looking the other way along the street.
So here is the painting from Canteen in Canterbury.
Here are the books bought today in Canterbury for my
bookshop in Ramsgate, I always seem to need Tintin, Asterix and books about
almost every Kent town. Obviously most of my book stock I brought to my
bookshop by people who want to sell it or get exchange vouchers so they can get
more books and a certain amount comes from my going out to buy largish collections
from people’s houses, mostly because a book collector has died. This means that
when I go out, the books I buy tend to be to make up the ones we never seem to
have enough of.
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