Drawing Tuesday - British Museum

Ancient Cyprus was the gallery for meeting up.

These statues caught my eye, and I hoped to draw half a dozen of them

 but time permitted only three, in two brownish colours of inktense pencil -

Jo, kept outside the building by a horde of people simultaneously arriving by coaches and needing to pass through the narrow gate of the security bag-check, found some ideal subjects in some builders, who stood still for a long time -

 and, more lively, some young women eating their lunch -

Janet B didn't have the problem of the subject moving - this portrait was done in stone, in ancient Cyprus -

 She rendered the jugs in 6B pencil -

 Janet K captured a variety of painted or sculpted animals -

 Judith found a triple-bodied warrior -

 and a young Roman man -

The variations of colour are from wetting the ink (Rotring cartridge).

Extra-curricular activities

Jo acquired a Thames foreshore permit

Janet B has been making banana bread -

Janet K took her sketchbook to Kew Gardens and looked at different types of foliage, including some that we identified as Metasequoia (dawn redwood) -

The group is meeting without me for the next two weeks and I hope someone will be taking photos!