The rough sketches of all the Blue Plaque buildings I intend to include in the final picture are now complete. I was surprised how easy it was in some instances to do these sketches just using the views from Google Earth. It makes me wonder whether I might, in future, do similar pictures of places I’ve not visited. Any way, I’ve decided to cluster some buildings together in a terrace and leave some and detached. The Richard Jefferies Museum, for example. I don’t think would have looked right as part of a terrace. Similarly for the GWR Medical Fund HQ and the Norman Barbeau house.
Now I have to consider scale and style and I move towards the finished work. I will be using pen and watercolour but whether I use it in the style I did for the Wood Street work or whether I do it in a less realistic, more stylised way. I think I’m going to start on the GWR Medical Fund HQ building as this is the largest of the buildings and will be the centrepiece of the work.
I will be doing the buildings in small groups or as individual pictures which I will then scan and combine for the finished work. I prefer to work this way for panoramic pictures. It’s much easier to work with smaller pieces of A3 or A4 paper than a large single sheet..