One of my first reconstruction drawings of a manor house near Winchester, compared with a cutaway threshing barn in pen. Then we were allowed to use colour (railway goods shed) which I still use in 'semi retirement'.
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@allantadams.bsky.socialOne of my first reconstruction drawings of a manor house near Winchester, compared with a cutaway threshing barn in pen. Then we were allowed to use colour (railway goods shed) which I still use in 'semi retirement'.
@allantadams.bsky.socialToday (5th October) is the anniversary of my starting work with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England in 1981. The beginning of a career drawing old stuff. Although 'retired' I am still drawing old stuff... At a different pace and mostly for fun.
@allantadams.bsky.socialOn holiday in Northumberland I became immersed in the story of Grace Darling. In 1838 she & her dad William rescued 9 survivors from the wrecked SS Forfarshire in the Farne Islands. She was born in her grandparents house, in Bamburgh in 1815.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe corner of Finkle Street & St Sampson's Square, York. York Minster keeps watch over a narrow street with a predominance of pubs and bars. Cut & Craft on the corner, VJ's art bar & the Roman Bath with bits of a Roman bath house in the cellar.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe Aviva Insurance building and a hotel dominate the scene from the top of York Minster. In the foreground the Assembly Rooms can be seen.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe turret of Monk Bar in York. Often described as the most ornamented of the city's medieval gates it features several heraldic shields, a vaulted gate passage and murder holes in addition to the giants on the top.
@allantadams.bsky.socialNot far from Monk Bar is tower 28. It retains medieval foundations dating from the 13th-early 14th century (likely 1266–1318), the upper section features distinct 'pepper-pot' turrets added during Victorian restoration work between 1888 and 1889.
@allantadams.bsky.socialMonk Bar, from the Bar Walls, York.
A sketch with a fineliner pen in a Moleskine sketchbook.
@allantadams.bsky.socialA view of York Minster from the Bar Walls. Kendal Bridge and Bridge House, now Pizza Express in the foreground.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe entrance bay of the Grand Hotel & Spa, Station Rise, York. Built 1899-1906 as the head office of the North Eastern Railway Company, designed by William Bell of the NER and Horace Field.
@allantadams.bsky.socialFlashback to 1st October 2020. What next? Progress on a drawing of the former GNR headquarters building in York.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe former Zachariah's Inn and St Michael's Church tower, Oxford. Sketched the same afternoon as the Golden Cross when I was in Oxford to give a lecture at a conference in the university.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe courtyard of the Golden Cross Inn, Oxford. Pizza Hut reckon its been there since 1193. On the left is a 16th-17th century timber frame with wall paintings, to the rear an 18th century range.
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@allantadams.bsky.socialA drawing almost finished, 30 September 2020. But sometimes you almost finish a drawing & find you need to go back over it to keep the tones in tune. Grand Hotel, York.
@allantadams.bsky.socialI went on to add a bit of the nave aisles, with the lower parts of the flying buttresses, discovering the statues in the niches while drawing the details.
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@allantadams.bsky.socialHeraldry at Micklegate Bar, York.
According to FB it's been 10 years since I finished this drawing. The Royal Arms & City of York Arms, c1350 & several iron reinforcement bars, 19th century + some weathered stonework.
@allantadams.bsky.socialA window with a Gibbs surround and Edwardian wrought ironwork. The Grand Hotel & Spa, former headquarters building of the GNR, York.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe west towers of York Minster. The south west tower, on the left, holds the cathedral bells and was finished first in 1445. It was badly damaged by fire in May 1840.
@allantadams.bsky.socialStudies of sack hoists and weighing scales. It's the little details that help make reconstruction drawings work.
@allantadams.bsky.socialThe cover drawing shows a typical linear farmstead with barn & cow byre, house & attached stable or byre. The drawing is based on a farm that lacked the pigeon holes in the gable, one of several features I had to introduce that weren't on the supplied references.
