Roof Structure, Amsterdam Townhouse, Sunhead 1617

Study of Roof Structure, Amsterdam Townhouse Sunhead 1617

 

 

This sketch shows the roof structure behind a gable of an Amsterdam townhouse. Many of the townhouses are built with front façade leaning out over the street by a few degrees, so that furniture can be winched up to the windows more easily. The winch is fixed to an extension of the ridge beam of the roof behind, which projects through the façade. This is the 'Tulip Room at Sunhead 1617, a small hotel in the UNESCO world heritage area.

 

Watercolour sketchbook.

 

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African Community Centre at Night

African Community Centre at Night

 

This image was drawn digitally over a watercolour base layer, with the aim of communicating the influence of a community health orientated community centre operating into the evening.

 

Watercolour, Digital Drawing and Photoshop.

 

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Proposed Health Clinics, Sub-Saharan Africa

Proposed Health Clinics, Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Drawn to describe a concept for a local health clinic compound.

Drawn on a Wacom Cintiq tablet in Photoshop.

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Hospital and Health Masterplan in Africa

 

Proposed Hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

 

 

This drawing was prepared on a tablet, working over a watercolour base layer.

 

Watercolour and Photoshop

Temple at Kamakura, nr. Tokyo, Japan

Temple at Kamakura

A quick sketch made whilst on a short visit to the temples at Kamakura Japan.

Very simple colours intended to highlight the national identity.

Pen and Tablet

View over Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

A very quick pen sketch from the aircraft window of the first glimpse of Mt Fuji, as I left Tokyo after 2 days of blizzards and wading through snow in the city in February 2014.

Coloured on the tablet on return.

Early Morning in Bath, England

A Series of 4 sketches made a couple of weekends ago of in central Bath.

 

South Wing of Bath Abbey, Evening

 

This drawing was made to try and capture the light inside the building reflecting around the nave internally, and compare it to the cold November evening outside. Drawn with a carpenter's pencil, on mounting board, and completed with a few washes back home.

 

Watercolour on Board

 

 

 

 

East Front, Bath Abbey

 

Having trained at Bath, I have drawn this elevation many times. I much prefer trying to get the facade of the abbey off-centre these drawings - perfectly symmetrical is quite tricky to get to work nicely I've found.

 

Watercolour on Board.

 

 

Trim Bridge, Bath

 

I particularly like the lines of the pavements in this view, and the the way in which they step upwards through the arch.

 

York Terrace, Looking down to the Abbey

 

This sketch took longer to draw than the others, and required more concentration. The changes in level and ledges in the street are difficult to join up convincingly, although a little exaggeration helps the picturesqueness of the view. 

 

Carpenter's Pencil on Board

 

8/11/2013