To celebrate a special birthday earlier this year, my husband was given tickets for a trip on the famous steam locomotive Flying Scotsman which was running from Minehead to Bishops Lydeard on the West Somerset Heritage Railway. The booking was for Tuesday last week and involved a coach trip to Bishops Lydeard station, by rail to Minehead on another steam train, with the return journey on the Flying Scotsman itself. Good photographic opportunities of the famous engine were limited as it was surrounded by a crush of railway enthusiasts, but it was a memorable experience.
Apart from a sketch while waiting on the station platform, most of my efforts were tiny scribbles from the moving train. I tried out continuous line drawing with a Micron pen; at first I found it required concentration to keep the pen on the page, but it's a technique I would like to practice more frequently.
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| Raveningham Hall steam locomotive |
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| The Flying Scotsman |
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| Micron pen sketches |
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