Once again today I found myself drawn to painting the inside
of Canterbury Cathedral, I am not really a superstitious person but to me it
feels like the cathedral somehow wants to be painted and I find myself drawn
from sitting in a comfortable café sketching the view or the people inside and
today sitting on a very hard pew trying to sketch from a crazy angle.
Several watercolour sketches down in the crypt but this one
today I am fairly happy with.
When I got home I googled watercolour of Canterbury
Cathedral Crypt the only one that I liked more was the pencil and wash by JWM
Turner.
Here is the Turner and the link to it and the article about
it on the Tate website http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-canterbury-cathedral-the-crypt-with-the-tomb-of-cardinal-r1140953
This is nothing to do with the quality of the paintings,
which were all much better than my attempt the problem was that the others
didn’t look or feel like the crypt at Canterbury Cathedral.
The main thing I have been trying to paint down there are
the wall paintings that are about a thousand years old in Gabriel Chapel, you
aren’t allowed to photograph these although plenty of photos come up if you
google them. The entrance to this chapel was bricked up about 900 years ago and
wasn’t discovered until around 1880 so wasn’t there in Turner’s time.
As you can see my attempt at paining this bit isn’t going
too badly but then it isn’t going that well either.
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