A trip to London

This summer, after the symposium of Urban sketchers in Manchester that I attended for the first time, I stayed 4 days in London. To visit museums and sketch the city was the main program of this journey!

Here is what came up in London, after 4 intensive days of workshops and being confronted to many techniques, savoir-faire and talented people…

To sketch artists working on a big surface is a real challenge because they move a lot, quickly,
and I felt that I should respect their work in my own sketch by trying to make a minimum of resemblance…

To eat cold is a part of urban sketcher's life… !!!

A bit hard to draw after having seen so many interesting masterpieces in the Tate gallery

Funny place to have a drink in Hoxton, I added the wall paper afterwards on photoshop

The best restaurants in London are asian in my opinion…
This young asian woman was actually blond… she was coming straight from a manga graphic novel !

I went to David Hockney's exhibition in the Royal Academy of Arts:  82 portraits of people sat on a yellow chair!
Here is my homage:  2 women sat on purple armchairs…

A very good corean restaurant in the China town of London. This is the same woman cooking from front and from behind.

Trafalgar square after having visited the National Gallery

People on Trafalgar square by night

Having a rest in the Soho Theater cafe

I had to sketch the funny furnitures of the apartment in Hoxton before I give back the kees !

I had some time to sketch before I take my Eurostar to France… The St Pancras Hotel was a good challenge

Then I tried to catch "the jungle of the city" before I leave London…

In the train station waiting for my train…

A japonese family in the Eurostar