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@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 8:38 PM

Studies of sack hoists and weighing scales. It's the little details that help make reconstruction drawings work.

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Pen sketches of late 19th/early 20th century machines for lifting sacks. An industrial weighing scale. A platform for the sack attached to an arm with a balance that had an adjustable balance weight suspended from it. An industrial weighing scale. A platform for the sack attached to an arm with a balance that had an adjustable balance weight suspended from it.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 10:47 AM

The 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.

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Pencil and watercolour drawing of linear farmstead consisting of a cow byre and barn, farmhouse and attached stable or byre with hay loft. There are holes for a pigeon loft in the gable. By the gate is a stand for milk churns.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 10:36 AM

On 27th September 2023 I received my copy of "The Farming Landscape of the Westmorland Dales" with quite a few of my illustrations in it. It had been an interesting commission.

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Cover of a booklet on the farming landscape of the Westmorland Dales, a part of northern England. Double page spread of a booklet with illustrations of a typical Westmorland linear farmstead, a turf built seasonal house for shepherds watching sheep on the higher fells, a horse mounting block and detail of a dated door lintel. Double page spread with a reconstruction drawing of a medieval farming landscape on the left. A double page spread with a drawing of a 19th century farming landscape on the right to compare with the medieval landscape also in the booklet.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 7:18 AM

Reminded by FB that it's the anniversary of working on the fiddly bit (some scroll work) beneath the fancy window on 5 Coppergate, York. Probably where the shop name was placed.

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Pencil drawing of ornamental ceramic tiles beneath a first floor window. Work in progress on a drawing of a window with large ceramic figures on top of a rounded arch. The figures support a datestone with the initials GWH and 1908 in the corners. Work in progress on a drawing of a datestone and a large ceramic sculpture of a partly dressed woman.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 2:06 PM

Thank you. I did a railway goods shed while employed by Historic England. Isometric projection is a good tool for cutaway drawings making it easier & quicker than setting up 2 or 3 point perspective.

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Cutaway drawing of a 19th century railway goods station with carts being loaded and unloaded goods.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 1:10 PM

Something I was working on a while back. Number 5, Coppergate, York.
The harder bits are done, just the fiddly bits beneath the fancy window to do.

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Work in progress with a Staedtler Graphite 0.3mm pencil on a drawing of an arched window with two ceramic figures and a datestone of 1904.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 10:34 AM

A drawing I was commissioned to make was published in September 2025. The lime depot was built in 1840 for the Stockton & Darlington Railway. They were published in Research News 29.

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Cutaway drawing of railway wagons unloading lime for transport by horse and cart Work in progress on a drawing of railway wagons unloading lime using a 000 paintbrush.Pencil drawing of railway wagons unloading lime for transport by horse and cart.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:32 PM

The entrance to the Brownsover Hall Hotel, sketched shortly after I arrived for the meeting of the Society of Architectural Illustrators. I parked myself on the edge of the car park so I could meet others as they arrived.

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sketch of a corner tower of a hotel building. The entrance is in the base of the tower, beneath an oriel window. Drawn from a bench in the car park, in the sunlight, having arrived early for a meeting of the Society of Architectural Illustrators.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 4:01 PM

Getting engrossed in another challenging study OTD 2020. Modillions and Gibbs surrounds, incorporated into an Edwardian railway building.

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Work in progress on a pencil drawing of an Edwardian office building.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 11:44 AM

During meeting a famous quote from the Australian architect & artist Glenn Murcott was discussed but after a while I'm afraid my mind wandered off a bit & led into a doodle. 🙄

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Doodle during a business meeting shows a medieval hall house, drawn from imagination, on the right and some written notes on the left. The notes rea: Glenn Murcott - architect/artist. To draw is to bring out To draw is to reveal To reveal is to understand
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 7:11 AM

The meeting room where the Society of Architectural Illustrators meeting took place in the Brownsover Hall hotel. A couple of us made use of the notepaper during the meeting & managed to contribute as well as draw.

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Drawing of part of the room with a fireplace to the right and a table used for a business meeting in the foreground.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 5:24 AM

FB reminders of the SAI meeting on Sept 2018, The staircase hall, Brownsover Hall, Hotel, Rugby. The hall designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott c1860. I got it started before the evening gathering and added to it before breakfast on Saturday.

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Pen sketch of a staircase landing with open, arched arcades and iron balustrades. The staircase hall, Brownsover Hall, Hotel. The hall was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in c1860. The green sofa on the landing serving one of the rear wings was an ideal spot to lurk as I could see two fellow SAI people heading to and from reception, bar and restaurant. I got it started before the evening gathering and added to it before breakfast on Saturday.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 5:06 PM

The #ADoorableThursday portal that leads to the station buffet tea rooms in Barter Books, Alnwick, the incredible secondhand bookshop in the former railway station.

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Rows of bookshelves leading the eye to a doorway with an arched fanlight with letters proclaiming the room beyond the door to be a station buffet. It is in fact the tearoom of a secondhand bookshop that was once a railway station.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 4:41 PM

A character based on this figure found her way into the finished illustration. There she is heading towards the cows in the barn-cum-cowhouse.

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Part of a cutaway reconstruction drawing with people doing domestic chores in a 17th century house. A woman carrying milk pails can be seen heading toward the barn at the upper left.
@ai-art-a-day.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 4:01 PM

Brutalist Tower Exploded in Color
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# Alt Text An architectural blueprint-style isometric illustration titled "Exploded Horizontal Cross-Section: Brutalist Tower Block, 1968 — Vertical Community Dissection," drawn at 1:100 scale on aged cream paper. The diagram depicts a symmetrical multi-story residential tower split vertically down its central concrete core, revealing eight labeled floor levels simultaneously. The illustration uses a warm coral/salmon and dark teal two-tone color palette with fine halftone texturing, evoking vintage technical drafting aesthetics. Each floor is labeled and depicted with miniature human figures and furnishings: - **L1 (Ground): Lobby** — figures near entrance, potted plants, tables - **L3: Residential** — living room furniture, bookshelves, dining area - **L5: Domestic Scene** — kitchen with residents, sofas, television - **L7: Communal Area** — dining tables, residents socializing, plants - **Floor 9: Balconies** — laundry hanging across open-air terraces - **L11: Small Apartment** — bedroom, reading figure, minimal furnishings - **Floor 14: Community** — bicycles, children's toys, recreational items The central elevator shaft and stairwell run the full height of the structure, connecting all levels. Floor labels appear on both left and right margins with measurement indicators. A scale bar runs along the bottom. The overall composition captures the sociological layers of working-class vertical urban living in late 1960s Brutalist housing architecture.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 7:43 AM

FB reminded me of what I was doing on 24 September 2022...
After drawing Minerva on the corner of Minster Gates I started a new study of a building in Coppergate, York. A bit of Edwardian exuberance.

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Using a pencil to draw a window decorated with a life size ceramic sculpture of a female figure and datestone.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:15 PM

For #WindowsOnWednesday a fine bow window on the Westgate Hotel, Newport, Gwent. A sketch from my student days. The hotel was at the centre of a major incident during the Chartist uprising in the 19th century.

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Incomplete on site pencil drawing of a large city centre hotel building with a large estate car in the foreground.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 5:08 AM

Number 15 Newgate, one of York's oldest domestic buildings, built 1337. It is part of a row of much altered houses built on the edge of the churchyard of St Sampson's church and was longer until part of it was demolished.

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Drawing a row of timber framed buildings with exposed timber work in the end wall.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 5:38 PM

Thank you. I did a lot of studies for this drawing & a couple of others in a set of 3, including some from Pyne's Microcosm & Hogarth + some field sketches on site.

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Dairymaid from Pyne's Microcosm. Weaving looks from the early 18th century. Sketch of a roof truss in a barn.
@allantadams.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 3:36 PM

Moving day, 22nd September, 1992. Despite the passage of 34 years we still remember this day all those years ago. From a 3 bedroom terrace to a semi detached house with trees around it & a view of York Minster around the corner.

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Pencil drawing of a terrace of houses. Each house has a window to each floor with a single doorway. Underneath the drawing are lines indicating the subject of the drawing, annotating 32 Upper Denmark Road, Ashford, Kent. Bird's-eye view of a suburban street with a corner house rendered with watercolour. Pen and watercolour sketchbook drawing of a suburban housing area with a silhouette of York Minster on the horizon.
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