November sketch outing

Despite early rain, we had a good turnout for our November urban sketchers meeting, with three or four new people joining us.

The venue was the town's first municipal cemetery (dating from 1881), but now closed to new burials. The area is a quiet green space and designated nature reserve surrounded by streets of Victorian terraced houses originally built for the expanding workforce of Brunel's railway workshops.  The chapel is now only used on special occasions, but the caretakers kindly agreed to open the building up so that we would have somewhere to shelter should the weather deteriorate.

All comforts provided!

The Gothic Revivalist style chapel

I used the Hahnemuhle Grey sketchbook, which I had already prepared using soft gel medium to add a piece of randomly painted tissue paper to one of the pages.  The resulting surface proved to be rather slick for the watercolour I tried to add to my pen sketch - perhaps acrylic or ink would have been a better choice, but I enjoy experimenting with different approaches.

The Chapel, Radnor Street Cemetery