More progress with my watercolour from Chocolate Café in
Canterbury today, The Half Crown is for scale although the sheet of paper is just under A4 which may be easier for most people
It isn’t really possible have one reference picture as you
would with a building because people move about, but I hope this one gives you
some idea.
Funny sort of day really drove to Canterbury, arrived at
Chocolate Café just after 8, the sun was on the table then which made it easy
to put the little bit of sky in because of the fast drying of the bits round
it.
You can’t get toast and marmalade, so I had toast and jam
and tried not to think of 9½ weeks, did sky and surrounding bits – said
something stupid to the waitress, I always seem to say something stupid to
someone after concentrating on painting, fortunately the staff there are used
to this.
Drove to Herne Bay to buy some books. Bought some books for
my bookshop.
Drove back to Canterbury, visited the Canterbury bookshops
where I bought some books for my bookshop.
Went back to Chocolate Café, sat in the window next to the
pavement and painted the people sitting at seats on the pavement directly in
front of me, I got some reasonable likenesses, but doing this certainly takes
some nerve.
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