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Cafe Sketches – 6th May 2006

May 6, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Back to my usual haunt for this trip, a big improvement from wobbling trains and darkenedtheatres. This guy is a semi-regular, I don’t see him every weekend but I have drawn him once before.I think I got a better likeness of him last time. I’ve a feeling I shortened his arm in order to fit

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Cafe Sketches – 24th April 2006

April 24, 2006 By: Paulcomment

I think this is the first time I’ve been anywhere apart from the Cafe Nero with a sketchpad.Michelle managed to coax me out to go and see Jose Gonzalez. He was good but the venue was too big. > The first drawing I did on the train in to Waterloo from Epsom, this guy was

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Cafe Sketches – 22nd April 2006

April 22, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Today was a good day. The cafe was busy, but not too busy, and I got my favourite table at thefront by the window with a good view across the room. TheLast tripto the cafe I felt rushed, and couldn’t settle. It spoiled the drawings. Today I was more relaxed and itshows. Today’s first drawing,

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Cafe Sketches – 8th April 2006

April 8, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

This trip did not go well. At the time I was at a loss to explain why. Last week’s trip did go well,I enjoyed myself and got some reasonable drawings out of it. This trip hit my confidence in a bad way. The problem was that I was rushing, the 20th Century disease. I had

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Cafe Sketches – 4th February 2006

April 2, 2006 By: Paul2 Comments

My first cafe sketches expedition! I have to say I really enjoyed myself today.The drawings aren’t great, but considering I had between twoand five minutes to do each one I’m not unhappy with them. Hardly anyone noticed I was drawing, apart from anobservant little boy (“Daddy, that man’s drawing!”) and a small party of old

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Cafe Sketches – 1st April 2006

April 1, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

First drawings for the new month, it’s now my third month drawing in the cafe, this was my eleventh trip. Spring was in the air when I was walking down to the cafe, the first proper spring day this year. It had justrained but the sun had come out, a lovely, fresh morning. I got

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Cafe Sketches – 26th March 2006

March 26, 2006 By: Paulcomment

I’ve left this trip a bit late to write up. It’s over a week since this trip and the memory of it is a bit vaguenow. The main thing I remember now is that when I got to the cafe all the seats at the front by the window were taken soI had to sit

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Cafe Nero Regulars

March 18, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Life got in the way again over the last two weeks and I haven’t found as much time to drawas I’d like. It would be very nice if I didn’t have to earn a living and could just sit arounddrawing all day. I did get down to the Cafe Nero againyesterday though, whichturned out to

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Cafe Sketches – 18th March 2006

March 18, 2006 By: Paulcomment

It’s been two weeks since I got down to the Cafe Nero for some sketching. I think the break might have doneme good, since today’s drawings came out a bit better than the last two trips I think. I must have been feeling a bit brave today, because instead of taking up my usual position

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Cafe Sketches – 5th March 2006

March 5, 2006 By: Paulcomment

After coming home despondent fromyesterdays trip, with only twodrawings completed, Michelle persuaded me that I should go down again this morning. Since she’s usuallyright about pretty much everything, I did. I’d say today went slightly better than yesterday. I consciously told myself not to get too tied upabout it and just bang out some drawings.

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Hi, I’m Paul

I'm a (mostly) self-taught artist. I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I share my work, my evolving process and what knowledge I've gained on my own learning journey here, in the hope that it might help you on yours.
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