Hey, the Weather Has Suddenly Changed!

What a surprise. Heavy snow on Wednesday to sunshine the very next day. These next two sketches were done in Shipley on consecutive days. The first one was from inside Costa Coffee to stay out of the weather. By the next day, it was warm enough for me to draw outside.

Shipley in the Snow

Now the Snow Has Gone

I'm a big fan of the Urban Sketchers. If you haven't heard of them and you are interested in sketching and drawing, go check out their website at urbansketchers.org. A big part of their manifesto is about sketching on location. Their slogan is 'Show the World, One Drawing at a Time'. Now, not all of my drawing is on location drawing from life. I do like to working all kinds of ways. But there is nothing like observational drawing for honing your skills. I try to do some every day. Now the weather is starting to improve, I'm hoping to get out and about to do more sketches.