We parked at the Catholic church and walked down the road toward Nelson Mandela Bridge. My first sketch shows the the road leading to the bridge.
The next sketch was far more intense. Try to grasp the perspective lines, the joins in the railways, which train belongs to which track… Would have been great fun in oils actually. But a little awkward spot for that.
It was already around midday and some went home, but some of us needed MORE! …so we walked around quite a bit until Barbara spotted a stairwell on the corner of an office block which looked to have a view of Nelson Mandela Bridge. After going up and down the office block, being told by security we couldn’t get there, refusing to accept that, we eventually found an open door to level 4 parking lot! :-)
Related links:
- The group’s sketches on Facebook
- Barbara Moore’s blog post
- Cathy Bricka Giordano’s blog post
- Cathy Gatland’s blog post.
Great work on these…. they remind me of some works by David Gentleman in the 1970’s – I think the Mandela bridge is such a beautiful structure drapped over the graffitied and rusted trains…. lovely :)
Thank you so much.
Great sketches and a super photo John – it was fun! I feel like going back to do it all differently, but glad we finally got to draw the bridge.
Thanks Cathy. Yes, I completely agree on that one, in fact, I generally feel like that after most sketch outings.
It looks like it was an interesting morning with many successful drawings, despite a good few challenges !
Yes, there was a lot more subject matter than I anticipated.