An Afternoon in March

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The Griffin Hotel and March Museum.

That's March, Cambridgeshire, UK not the month of March.

The Griffin Hotel

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Ink and Watercolour in sketchbook.

A quickie while sinking a latte at The Griffin Hotel, March, Cambridgeshire, UK back in May.

Didn't get a moment to work on my art house project until midnight last night, when I became totally engrossed for over 2 hours trying to perfect no less than 4 self portraits!!!
I'm hoping to find time to complete the pages along with the design elements later today.

The Griffin Hotel

Managed to pop into the Griffin, for the first time in ages, and sketch my way through a latte.

The Griffin Hotel

My last two visits to The Griffin Hotel, sketched over a latte.

Morning Coffee At The Griffin Hotel

The Olde Griffin Hotel

The other place Harry and I visited on Saturday was the Griffin Hotel where we indulged in a bit of lunch and a little sketching.
My apologies to the crowd top centre of the spread below, whose legs I seem to have shrunk.

Friendly Lunch

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Back at the Griffin Hotel again last week, this time for an overdue lunch date with a very good friend. Lots of talking and laughter but I still managed to slip in a quick sketch.

The Olde Griffin Hotel

After visiting The Olde Griffin Hotel in March for my 21st sketchcrawl and seeing it's potential as a place to capture people in my sketchbook, I decided to try to return at least once a week.
Last week I managed to get there around lunchtime and the place was buzzing.

I Took a square 6x6" W&N heavyweight sketchbook along. These books are most affordable and the paper is hard to beat; it's smooth for ink takes light washes well and loves coloured pencil...A good, cheap, all rounder then! I enjoyed having a slightly larger page, the small canson I've been using for the hospital and Asda is only 4.5x6" and landscape format.

I seated myself twice during this visit, which I hope shows in the lighting; the top sketch being closer to the window and the bottom sketch at the back of the Griffin.

The couple above attracted my attention because they seemed so content and comfortable with one another, talking constantly, unaware of the crowd around them.

The bare flesh a struggling sweater could not conceal is what got my pen scribbling in the lower sketch.

Worldwide Sketchcrawl 21

Saturday was the 21st Worldwide sketchcrawl and with weather here at minus 3 the whole day, I finally decided to take refuge in The Olde Griffin Hotel for a couple of hours.
The Griffin has recently been refurbished and I had never really been inside until Saturday...What a fabulous place! It is huge and has many levels and areas. A variety of chairs, stools, leather sofas and flat screen TV's make it very user friendly for all age groups...the ideal place for an artist to get 'lost' in and sketch. It sits on the corner of the market square and has many windows with views along the High Street too.
The Griffin also serves a great latte, which is always a bonus!
I enjoyed the venue so much that I'm hoping to make it a place I visit often.