Travelling home from Aegina Greece and drawing every day would be easier in balmy weather but it’s hard to sit outside when it’s freezing. So I set out hoping to find a couple of hours each day for drawing, but expecting to draw a few cosy cafés as well as the ideal architectural landmarks.
I find that my soft 6B pencil drawings look lovely in the real book, but not when photographed on an iPhone screen. But I do like them when the ‘Gothic’ filter is applied lightly in the ‘Prisma’ app. And that’s what you see here.
So. From 6th to 17th February 2023;
here we go:
Flight A3601 to Athens
Port of Piraeus
Four Seasons Hotel, Budapest
the cafés!
Gorecsky Hotel, Budapest
St. Stephen Basilica, Budapest
Budapest Station
Art of Painting, Vermeer, Wien
Opposite Belvedere 21, Wien
Cognac at Hotel Daniel, Wien
It’s only three hours to Prague from Vienna, and soon we’re in Prague’s quaint streets where one could draw for hours, for days, except it’s too cold outside. So..
A Café in Prague
Prague Station Concourse
Train at Prague Station
Café in Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Including the 2 hour stop in Berlin, where we ate amongst birch trunks with funky music (cool!) 11 or 12 hours of your life elapse between Prague and Amsterdam to the west.
Amsterdam Window View
Visiting Leeuwarden
Eise Eisinga’s Planetarium in Franeker
Stadthuis Delft
Delft Canal
From Delft we took trains all the way back to Alton without further stops for drawing. It was a long way to return home from the Greek island of Aegina but we felt very happy to be seeing new places and meeting strangers and friends along the way.
Filmhuis Lumen Delft
At Home by the Fireside, England
Steve Weeks 