Lunch in the National Cafe #2

This is another in my series of sketches drawn while havling lunch. This one is the second sketch of Lunch at the National Cafe. You can see the first one here Lunch at the National Cafe

Lunch at The National Cafe #2
10" x 8", pen and ink and coloured pencils in Moleskine Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

I visited the National Cafe for a light lunch after the press preview of the exhibition for the BP Portrait Awards. As I was planning a hike around the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition as the next thing on the agenda for the day I needed a sit down and a bit of time out. The National Cafe does very nicely and is very convenient for anybody wanting a bite to eat in the area of Traflagar Square at any time of day! This is the menu.

You can also have a classic afternoon tea - although I've personally 'delisted' cream teas those from my choice of food items while I try to achieve my goal to lose weight and generally embrace Sketchercise!

You can see more sketches like this - but at different venues in Interior landscapes with food - a Sketchbook

My Sketchercise total for that day was 10,094 steps and 4.78 miles

Links:

• National Gallery - website
• The National Cafe
• menus
• location: East Wing, The National Gallery,Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4DN.
  
• Reservations (dinner only): 020 7747 2525
  
• Opening hours:Mon - Fri 9am to 11pm; Saturday 10am to 11pm; Sunday 10am to 6pm
• Trusted Places - review of the National Cafe

Sketching at the RA - The Friends Room #4 and #5

This is the fifth in my mini series of sketches of the Friends' Room at the Royal Academy of Art.

Sketching at the RA - Friends Room #5
8" x 11.5" pencil and coloured pencils in A4 Moleskine Sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

This is the first sketch in my brand new A4 size Moleskine Sketchbook. The paper is similar - but slightly different. I seemed to have difficulty getting depth of colour using coloured pencils - but only had a basic set of pencils with me so I'm open to a different interpretation. I've tweaked this sketch in Photoshop to show to the effect I was after - and would have got with my other (smaller) Moleskine as opposed to the one I got which was somewhat lighter

This sketch is one which I did in February last year. For some reason it never got posted on this blog!

Sketching at the RA - Friends Room #4
pencil and coloured pencils
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

You can see the other sketches in this series on my website - Interior Landscapes - Drawings by Katherine Tyrrell

Alternatively you can see them in the following posts on this blog:

• Sketching at The RA - The Friends Room #1
• Sketching at The RA - The Friends Room #2
• Sketching at The RA - The Friends Room #3

Developing a view of the East Lake

East Lake, Victoria Park
8" x 10", pen and coloured pencils in Moleskine sketchbook
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

My favourite long walk wends its way between various watery places - the Regents Canal, the Ecology Park Pond, the Hertford Union Canal, the West Lake and the East Lake in Victoria Park. I don't think the conventional view of the East End of London includes lots of green space and water - but that's what I've got!

This is a sketch I did on Tuesday this week. This is a view I really like and I'm feeling my way into it - trying to stick to bigger shapes at the moment. I was sat on my new sketching stool - still liking it - on one of the platforms built into the lake for the anglers.

The combination of a long walk and going to the BP Portrait Awards in the evening meant that my Sketchercise total for Tuesday was quite respectable - 11,432 steps and 5.413 miles.