January, not the best month to paint in the uk, it’s the
time that it’s just about light enough during the day mostly but too cold to
paint outside. Painting from cafés is all very well but the big magnet that
attracts me locally is the inside of Canterbury Cathedral.
This in my nth attempt at the nave, this type of internal
perspective slowly improves with practice, and getting this attempt finished
today, well it really just means starting again and hoping the next one will be
better.
Over the next few years there is going to be a lot of
building work going on in the cathedral so I am not sure what impact this will
have on painting inside it.
The other one started today was a first go at paining the
cathedral crypt, I had a go at the bit with the medieval frescos, you aren’t
allowed to take photos in the crypt so you will just have to take my word that
this first attempt is not very good.
Anyway well the rudeness bit, not so very much my fault, the
cathedral – you see is rather noisy, lots of people in a stone building without
carpets and soft furniture to soak the sound up. This means I paint with
earplugs in, I have considered headphones but am not really sure what you are
allowed to do in churches, I have also considered painting during services. The
crypt is supposed to be silent, believe me when I say you don’t know the half
of it, so to the people who spoke to me today while I was painting in the
cathedral to whom I replied, “sorry I have earplugs in and can’t hear you”
should I apologise?
Time out of the Cathedral in Canterbury today I painted this
one from Chocolate Café, a very quick sketch.
a photo for potential critics
The bookshop is still very much in local history
mode, here is the link to the pictures of the books that went out today http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/a-fine-place-to-daydream-in-bookshop.html
Next some old Thanet pictures
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