PENCIL DRAWINGS - SKETCHED IN LONDON, SUMMER 2015

PENCIL SKETCHES FROM MY SKETCHBOOK - NO COLOUR THIS TIME

The first one is done at the Krispy Kreme doughnut car park, monthly vintage car rally

Vintage car rally, New Malden

Field Marshall Slim statue, Whitehall

Outside Cafe Nero, Piccadilly, view of The Ritz entrance

LONDON SKETCHES - SUMMER 2015

MORE FROM MY SKETCHBOOK - VJ DAY IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND ST JAMES'S PARK AND WHITEHALL

These sketches were made during VJ Day, in August 2015, 70 years after the end of war in the Far East. There was a fine turnout of veterans again. The ceremony started off, in London, with a service in St Martin's in the Fields church in Trafalgar Square, attended by the Royal Family and the Prime Minister.

Watercolour, pen, crayon, gouache

St Martin's in the Fields, outside waiting to see HRH Queen Elizabeth

In St James's Park, quiet while the crowds watched in Whitehall

Whitehall, waiting for the parade of veterans and the bands. Near the statue of Field Marshall Slim

URBAN SKETCHES - LONDON

VE DAY COMMEMORATION IN LONDON - SUMMER 2015

I went along to the commemoration of VE Day in Westminster, London.  Here are my sketches.
  
It was a moving event, for although we did not see the parade along Whitehall,  we had the chance to see the veterans walking, and riding in wheel chairs, through St James's Park to the marquee, where they met HRH The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, for a meal and later, dancing to a swing band.  The veterans proudly wore their medals and waved gaily to the crowd.
Also in St James's Park was this fine Hawker Hurricane, and further away, a crowd examined this tank in The Mall, where the Union flag adorned the lamp posts

Hawker Hurricane aircraft in St James's Park

In The Mall, London, this military model of a tank, c.1940-1945