On the Saturday the 10th of October I managed to get to the sketch crawl with London Urban Sketchers around Battersea Park and Chelsea Embankment. It was great to catch up with familiar faces and meet new urban sketchers. I walked through Battersea park on the way to the meeting point and I was amazed by its size and how busy it was. There was so many exciting possibilities to sketch it was almost overwhelming. I decided to concentrate on the Bridges along The chelsea Embankment and then maybe Battersea Power station later. My plan was to collage with torn paper, pen and marker. I had especially been out to buy a glue stick and had spent time preparing a pocket of collaged papers in the back of my sketchbook. It didn't all go to plan .....I decided to perch on the embankment wall and opened out my pen holder and my glue just casually rolled out and dropped into the Thames.
Not a good start ...... This is my first sketch of the day of The Albert Bridge. I have added a small amount of digital colouring at home to capture the water and sky.
Impressive and famous ornate Bazalgette's lamps along the Chelsea Embankment and sketching from a Vulliamy's Sphinx bench.
On my way home I decided to walk to Vauxhall Station along the Thames path as it was a lovely evening. It took longer than I expected !! but was worth it . I had a bit of a wait for my train back to to Thames Ditton so I managed one more sketch.
