Day 27 Bit of sunshine

I was preparing myself for yet another cold rainy day to finish off my long weekend, but it turned out to be sort of decent in patches. So, I was rescued from my urban sketcher's cabin fever with a trip to the nearby park this afternoon. The park's next to the bridge I love-hate, and I've been wanting to it draw for ages.


What I hate about this bridge is that it cuts our side of Obs in half. The houses on each side just peak over the top of it. Plus, it's dark and smelly and ugly. What I love (hmm love it too strong a word by anyway) about it is well, let's be practical, traffic would be worse than it already is without it. But that's not it really, it's the strong lines and shadows enhanced by the fact that it's too big for the space it occupies.


And then, I managed to get in a quick urban classic, of roof-tops, chimneys and TV-aerials before being called to balance out the see-saw. I am realising with all this Victorian architecture, inside and out, that I need to simplify it and eliminate the detail in order to achieve the effect I want - the patterns and shapes and how they relate to each other.