  I’M
MAKING EFFORTS to bring colour into my work and, so my theory goes, there
should be time to do some kind of colour sketch on practically any occasion,
even between stations on the Leeds to Keighley line. These views and
trees are composites; the tower, blocks of flats and factory chimney
(left) were actually kilometres apart as we left the city station and
the colours came from other buildings and trees further along the line.
The tower and weather-vane (right) are opposite Dewsbury station
car park, sketched as I stood leaning against a traffic bollard, waiting
for
Barbara to pick
me up. No time for colour; this is drawn in Staedtler pigment liner fibre
tip and I have enlarged it from the original sketch. It’s the kind
of subject that would be fun to draw in a flowing, inky medium, but a quick
sketch
is better
than nothing. |
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