Spent a delightful morning and afternoon listening to young pianists performing in the school piano competition, followed by a splendid recital of Schubert, Chopin and Listz by the adjudicator, Jonathan Middleton who apart from performing beautifully was a really nice guy and gave sensitive and thoughtful yet well-considered feedback to the competitors…
Bottom line: today was a music day not a studio day, so I ended up playing with thumbnail sketches at the very beginning of my deserted hostelries project.
I love doing thumbnails. It hardly counts as risk-taking: there’s not much less risky than a thumbnail, but more important is the fact the sketchbook came out at all.