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@lauramellinatelier.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 9:55 PM

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I have been gardening, I am sweaty, slightly sunburnt, and I am not feeling it today, so here is some very old art from 1987-88.

Ballpoint pen, watercolour (I am not a good watercolourist), and graphite. 😊💜

A ballpoint pen drawing from 1988 of the rood screen* in King’s College chapel, Cambridge, England. The drawing covers both pages in my sketchbook, going from one side of the chapel to the other. The rood screen is all carved in wood, and incorporates their pipe organ. There are folding chairs in front, and a person standing looking at the screen. The pipe organ is partially visible in the center top of the image. There is an arch in the center of the rood screen. *A rood screen divides the altar from the back half of the chapel. It’s a thing that separates the clergy celebrating the service from the lay people worshipping at the back. It’s a Catholic thing, but actually survives in more Anglican churches, because of the Counter-reformation in Europe. It’s a complicated thing. More information about King’s College chapel can be found at https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel.A ballpoint pen drawing of the main entry lobby of the National Portrait Gallery, London, drawn in 1988. The drawing shows the decorative tile floor, a roped-off painting filling a wall on the left, the intricately decorated crown moulding and ceiling above, including bas-relief sculptures. The center of the sketch shows the one of the side galleries that are part of the entrance, with the same decorative moulding on the ceiling, showing more of the sculptures created for the gallery, the entrance flanked by two columns on either side. The side gallery is drawn showing the round seating in the center, the hanging light fixture, and the large paintings on either side of another huge entry to that wing of the galleries. To the right, not visible, are the steps leading up to this room, and there’s a dark square on the wall, which I think was either a fire alarm, or a complicated light switch board. This was
 36 years ago, my memory is fuzzy, and it probably doesn’t look like this anymore. I was reading art at Cambridge, and I came down to London some weekends to see my Dad and Stepmother. All the galleries and museums were free to enter, so I went to all of them, and drew.An impressionist watercolour sketch from 1998 of a tree in autumn, with green, yellow, and red leaves against a black and grey background of shadows.A graphite sketch from 1988 (framed; there is a reflection on the glass, but it doesn’t cover the drawing) of Royal College of Music students practicing for a concert in St. Martins in the Fields Church in London. The drawing is partial; I was working from life, sitting in the pews. On the left side of the drawing is the conductor with his back to the audience, then two violinists, one partially obscured. Behind them is another string player, and the pipes of the church organ, in front to the right is a music stand for the cellist, one arm and their cello visible far right. The violinist in the middle was aware of me sketching, and getting distracted, which is why there is a little smirk sketched on his face. This church is just off Trafalgar Square, near the National Portrait Gallery.