26 November 2011

Quick sketch of some shops on Kings Norton Green done in a few minutes fro the car.

25 November 2011

Very quick sketch of the Pershore Road done from the car

24th March 2011

St Mary's Hospice Raddlebarn Road, view at 90 degrees to the sketch I did on the 15th March.

17th March 2011

Pretty neutral view of New Street Station, took about 2 minutes before a train came in and blocked the view.

16th March 2011

A sketch from an uninspiring viewpoint on the train from London Euston, didn't really capture the panoramic elements like, Richard Estes used to do; but it was dark so nothing else much to draw.

15th March 2011

Raddlebarn Road looking towards St Edwards school

9th March 2011

Old courthouse building in Wolverley, very much like a building Turner once drew.

8th March 2011

Nice group of houses in Wolverley, Staffordshire

7th March 2011

Tipton - this building really leans this much and doesn't fall over. Puts many building surveys into perspective, anyone would recommend demolition but it is a pub open to the public everyday.

6th March 2011

St Leonard's Church, Frankley, this is a very old church the foundations date back to 1087. Lit by the glow from distant Birmingham and passing car headlights. A very spooky place to be hanging out at 8pm waiting for cars to pass so that they light it up.

5th March 2011

The M5 at night, isn't it beautiful! We conveniently forget that the concept of the motorway was most enthusiastically promoted by Hitler and that the English version was also nearly called the Autobahn in homage to it's German origins.

4th March 2011

The Holy Austin Rock Houses at Kinver, now nicely restored by the National Trust

3rd March 2011

'Exactly what it says on the tin' - Selly Oak Railway Bridge, during rush hour

2nd March 2011

The new QE hospital in Harborne, just after sunset.

27th February 2011

Birmingham Botanical Gardens in the rain, it really chucked it down today.

26th February 2011

 

Statue of George I, outside the Barber Institute in Selly Oak, taken just after sunset, nice range of colours from the sky and various types of street light. 

This statue was in Dublin but was relocated to England in the 1930's in case it was smashed up by an anti English mob, ironic really since (despite being King of both England and Ireland) he never bothered to learn English and spent most of his time in Hanover, making him about as English as sauerkraut.

24th February 2011

Seagulls on Edgbaston Reservior, it was quite warm today but sky and water colours improved with a polarising filter.

21st February 2011

Another office building in Bournville, car light trail just visible on the right

20th February 2011

Cadburys chocolate head office, there is a small 'Kraft' sign just inside this building.

19th February 2011

Bournville Railway station with a train coming in, taken from the wobbly footbridge, luckily no one walked up it or this would have blurred from the motion and not just the train, as here.

13th February 2011

The Birmingham to Worcester canal from beneath the Cube with the bottom of the footbridge above

9th February 2011

Cobalt House on Broad Street in 5 Ways, a refurbished tower block named after it's new colour scheme

8th February 2011

The Hyatt Hotel on Broad Street with one of Carillion's cranes on the right building the new Library of Birmingham which will be the biggest public library IN THE WORLD! when it is finished.

7th February 2011

Another one down by the canal, this is Gas Street Basin looking towards the Mailbox with the Cube building on the right. Taken during l'heure bleu (google it).

6th February 2011

Anonymous children inside the "giant bogey" sculpture (I think it is actually supposed to be a puff of smoke) outside the ICC in Birmingham, next to the canal

5th February 2011

Some kind of plant room at the University of Birmingham, taken on a very windy night, I like the way the trees have blurred in the wind.

4th February 2011

Same green lit building as from the other week, this looks so 80's the green is really weird and a frankly mad contrast with the orange sodium lamps which light the site.

30th January 2011

Aston Hall (which is closed at the moment) from the side, great arrangement of gables and turrets, I will do a drawing of this sometime.

29th January 2011

Lovely old red brick and terracotta bank in 

Foregate Street, Worcester. No idea which bank this was but the logo over the door is a castle with three Worcestershire pears.

22nd January 2011

After unsuccessfully trying to take a picture of the nearby church I spotted this fountain in  the gardens of a big house, in Tanworth-In-Arden