Yesterday we were expecting a downpour but the morning was fine, (got it later) so I went up to Newtown for a walk to try to sketch this building that I eventually want to paint. This is the rear of the building and it is the most fantastical conglomeration of pipes & air conditioning ducts that you can imagine. There is a little park opposite with some seats. Unfortunately when I sat down I realised that a great deal of the bulding was obscured by trees from that position. For that reason I used my tiny Fabriano sketch book to just capture what I could see. And on the positive side I got a really good photo of the whole back of the building. Often a lot of the building is in the shade, & the beauty of it is how the shadows fall, so now I’ll be able to do some more drawings from the photos. I used a Pitt Pen in sepia – looks black, doesn’t it? 
The next sketch is a sepia pen also, in another brand. Looks just like sanguine, doesn’t it? When will someone make a sepia pen that is sepia-coloured? There is one, but it bleeds through the paper like billy-o, so can’t recommend. This drawing is of the upper floor of a dress shop that has great stuff in it and a sale on at the present time. I used the ‘sepia’ pen, plus two of my Big Brush Pitt Pens, in the green and red. I put the sky and the pink on afterwards with Prismacolour pencils. Nice texture for that on this Fabriano paper.
Great sketches, especially the one of the back of the building. Nice interesting details.