How cool is this Algerian Coffee Shop in Soho. Established 1887! In stunning red watercolour
Rainbow Row. The most complete Georgian Street in the States in beautiful bright Caribbean colours. Urban legend has it that the colours allowed drunken sailors to find their lodgings. The truth is more about how a community comes together around an idea. Lovely to paint
Lock and Co hatters. Interesting fact hat makers are called milliners the word comes from the nearby company of Haberdashers who would import fancy lace and ribbon from Milan and so wher known as Milaners. Lock is 350 years old!
Acorn Street in Boston. Once one of the area poorest now perhaps the most photographed in the States. It looks pretty marvellous in autumnal watercolours.
Fortnum’s London’s most exclusive store. However it is rumoured to have created perhaps the most common of food types- the scotch egg.if you love London and interesting facts check out… www.freehandlines.co.uk/post/fun-foo...
Chicheley Hall built of 900,000 bricks and every one gorgeous! Love it in watercolour
Harvard in watercolour. Lowell House Interestingly the clock tower had bells saved from a Danilov Monastery in Moscow early in Soviet rule. They were returned to the church around 19 years ago and Russia made them new ones.
Pub goals. The Flask in Hampstead in watercolour. Strange name because Hampstead was a spa town and the pub used to sell flasks of water.
The Salters’ Hall in the city of London in watercolour. Powerful since the 1300’s. Salt was once really important for preserving food. The Salters’ Hall has a room with the feeling of a salt cave. Neat.
Did you know London used to have a snail farm under its streets? Find out more interesting and amusing food facts in my blog - it will make you hungry for more( sorry about the joke!) www.freehandlines.co.uk/post/fun-foo...
Next ones to paint. I am a bit excited because after these two I would have painted all the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. I wonder if anyone has done that before?
Remember these hands from the Venice Biennale in 2017. A comment on sinking Venice with the hands holding the building up. Modelled on the artists 11 year old son. Makes for a great watercolour
Next ones to paint. I am a bit excited because after these two I would have painted all the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges. I wonder if anyone has done that before?
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Watercolour of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. It actually has a sundial which can even tell the time by moonlight. Neat
The Stafford Hotel London, in watercolour. It holds a firm bond to the U.S. servicemen who stayed here. There is even a museum in the basement.
I love great doorways. Always with a study in watercolour. This one is only 100 years old
Work I progress. It’s Windsor Castle celebrating 250 years of you know what! Happy birthday.
Better in ink or watercolour? Clare College Cambridge one of the first classical buildings in the city
Beautiful facade or a bit OTT. Ruskin thought so and when structural engineers looks they found the facade was crumbling under its own sculptural weight. So some figures got removed. Makes for a great watercolour though.
