It's a long time since I've met up with the 'Drawing Tuesday' gang ( last time was the Petrie in August! ) Lots has been going on in the intervening months ( which I might eventually get round to blogging about ) but it's easier to start from what I did today.
I do like visiting the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and can get there by train without going through London, travelling on Thameslink train from Gravesend seeing a different part of Essex from my 'Javelin Journeys' . My last visit there in January I didn't do much drawing as I was investigating maps. I spend about half an hour wandering through the Pacific tempted by the barkcloth, before heading to the Polar Worlds.
With a convenient stool nearby , I drew Captain Scott's Overshoes , first in pencil and then with a calligraphy pen . Difficult to get the proportions right in either medium, kept get different things wrong !
At home, doing more research ,I found this blog post on their conservation. Both poignant and fascinating.
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