Chesterfield SketchCrawl


These are some more of the sketches I did during our SketchCrawl in Chesterfield. Though it's only 15 minutes away on the train, I'd never actually visited Chesterfield, and so really enjoyed the day.

We started off at the famous landmark, the one which puts Chesterfield on the map:


Because we were so lucky with the weather, we spent a lot of time sitting on the grass around the church, either drawing parts of the building, the trees, or each other. 


In the afternoon, we went the market, which was great fun. I loved listening to the traditional market callers. I sketched various characters, who were sitting on the benches or manning the stalls. 


It was so hot though, I couldn't sit in the sun, so there were lots of people I couldn't tackle. 



I had two goes at the spire - it was trickier than it looked and a bit of a neck-breaker!


I finished off with this wonderfully knobbly tree, then we celebrated a fantastic day by going to the pub to look at our work. You can see some more of my sketches from the day here and a selection of other people's here.



1 comment:

dinahmow said...

I think England sometimes like to keep summer up the sleeve, then unfurl it in an overnight blaze!
I'm home now, sporting white ovals in a red face from my final days sketching in London sunshine.