Category Archives: Architecture

Old Barn near Murren

This was a very old barn near Murren in the Bernese Oberland. It’s a beautiful area and a “way station” on the way to the cable car to Piz Gloria. Getting here required a train down from where we were staying in Wengen, a cable car halfway up the mountain across from our chalet andContinue reading “Old Barn near Murren”

Old Buildings, Basel

I didn’t get to do a lot of “on-site” sketching this past trip for various reasons, but took lots of photos as there was loads of interesting subject matter. The perspective in this particular sketch was rather tricky and took a couple of times to get right – the mixture of the steeply uphill laneContinue reading “Old Buildings, Basel”

75 Lorong Stewart, Penang

Uniquely for Malaysia, Penang retains names and references to its colonial heritage, thus we have seen Lebuh King (King Street), Lebuh Queen, Lorong Love (Love Lane) and Lebuh Campbell amongst many others. Apparently my lot were quite busy here… even found a “Kopitiam Thomson” in Ipoh. Drew this from a lovely little heritage-styled cafe calledContinue reading “75 Lorong Stewart, Penang”

Campo Santa Margherita, Venice

  This was the first sketch I did on the trip to Italy… I think the lack of practice shows! Still – it was a surprisingly tricky sketch as all the buildings across the “square” were slightly off kilter from one another which made for a slightly shifting perspective. A sketch in Venice – and noContinue reading “Campo Santa Margherita, Venice”

Vatican apartments – after Raphael

  The Vatican was amazing… everywhere you turned there was something you’ve seen in your art history books all your life… I found this little border detail in one of the Pope’s apartments, across from the very famous “School of Athens” painting by Raphael. What amazed me about this was the simplicity of it, butContinue reading “Vatican apartments – after Raphael”