Pavilion Cafe, Victoria Park

This is quickie " cup of tea" sketch - on my way back from yesterday afternoon's appointment with the Osteopath.

Pavilion Cafe, Victoria Park - August 2012
8" x 10" pen and ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

This is the Pavilion Cafe in Victoria Park just to the west of the Olympic Park.  A lot of my sketches of this lake are done from the jetty which sticks out into the lake which has high stools and a ledge just big enough for a cup of tea and a sketchbook.  In the summer, the awnings go up and the tables and benches all come outside.

Just as I was about to sit down on the park bench with my cup of "Builder's Tea" (£1), the Coots did what I always think of "playing jets landing on an aircraft carrier" - landing and skidded to a halt on the surface of the lake.

I held the image in my head until I could get my sketchy birds and their wake down in the sketchbook.

Sketches of the Pavlion Cafe: 

• Victoria Park: the Tea Pavilion - a sketch from a hot June morning in Victoria Park in 2007

Sketches from the Pavilion Cafe:

• Rowing Frenzy in Victoria Park 10 Aug 2012
• The water and birds return to West Lake November 2011
• Victoria Park - beached and neglected? August 2011
• Cold weather and small quick sketches February 2010
• Lake Trees and a veggie breakfast August 2009
• Herons, coots and goslings - grooming, housekeeping and babysitting June 2009
• The coldest snap for 20 years January 2009
• Victoria Park Lakes and a few birds January 2009

Pavilion Cafe: Crown Gate West, Victoria Park, Old Ford Road, London E3