A few Ramsgate pictures some old and more watercolour sketching in Canterbury Cathedral

A few Ramsgate pictures which you may recognise the what and where of, let me know if you don't

And today I have to admit to taking the day off, going to Canterbury and doing some watercolour painting in Canterbury Cathedral  

This is the cathedral watercolour, well a start at least 

A couple of progress pictures here 

you can sort of photograph the bit of the cathedral I am trying to paint

 Canterbury Cathedral has the builders in at the moment and I was hoping to paint the scaffold but couldn't get a seat with a veiw.

I also did a bit more of my painting of Canterbury Cathedral crypt.

Such comment as there is so far seems to be going on the individual photos on this Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/groups/516220578418850/permalink/1522019221172309/

Watercolour, Canterbury Cathedral Crypt, following the footsteps of JWM Turner.

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.