Just before midnight...

I just wanted the longest day to be even longer.
Still, we're an hour behind the rest of Europe here in London so just time before it ends, to post my own good night and thank you to you Tioka, Kirsten and all!  

So great to watch and let subjects come to you.   I loved Kirsten's zen quote about that.  And Angela's poems and the drawings from Greece...I hope to see something of what others did in Norwich and Britanny and all - tomorrow maybe?

Meanwhile  around 3 pm the sun came out as Anne-Marie and I looked over the Thames to St Paul's Cathedral (half concealed by riverside offices)  alongside the Millenium bridge.   Just a quick sketch as we were running late.  No time to give a glimpse of people along the bridge which would have been a nice counterpoint to Tioka's Paris photo...

We hurried past Shakespeare's Globe, the Cutty Sark and the Clink  (so much to draw and not just the monuments! )  to join Heather Kilgour at Southwark Cathedral.  Inside the oldest cathedral church in London,  a free piano recital had just started.    What luck!  Almost an hour drawing to Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms...I love sketching to music - there's a particular intensity when you know you aren't the only one hoping your eye, brain and fingers get it right...I dropped a few apostles out of the altar screen carvings but you get the gist.  

I used my Iphone to snap photos of these drawings...And now it's dark, it won't take a readable photo of my last drawing of the Barbican.   More tomorrow perhaps?

But I'm curious to see others work before that!

Bridget

Not quite the last drawing of the day

After a long chatty lunch at the Tate Modern, off to Southwark Cathedral where we met Heather, another SCBWI illustrator. I didn't quite finish a very ambitious sketch of the the Millennium Bridge, which has an amazing visual rhythmic quality to it's structure. If I did sci-fy illustration, the bridge and city behind it could make a wonderful surrealistic view. The illustration above was drawn inside Southwark Cathedral. I'm not sure at all what this brass sculptural form was used for but must be of medieval origin, reminding me of the wonderfully carved expressive Inuit masks. He felt very 'Solstice' to me.

Then, off to the Barbican Centre for tea and cake before attempting to draw the area around the Barbican Food Court. Gale like winds made sketching challenging. Finally, going inside we managed an hour at the 'Watch Me Move: the Animation Show', 150 years on the history of animation. I'm going to have to go back as we barely made it through one floor. This is definitely an exhibit you need a full day to truly enjoy. Thankfully, this exhibit is on until the 11 September.

Very hungry, yes, even after a great lunch and cake, and tired, I made it home just before dusk at 10:09 pm. It has been a fantastic day. There were so many places along the route Bridget and I took that we just had to pass to vaguely stay on schedule. This longest day of the year has definitely been a day to remember. Thank you Toika for pulling this all together.
Anne-Marie