Friday, September 27, 2013

cake

Today's drawing had to be cake as I'm celebrating 2 years of posting daily on the online sketchbook!

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Another Country


This building may just look like a nice piece of London architecture but located on one of the floors is The Embassy of Ecuador. As you may have seen on the news, this is the current home of Julian Assange, founder of the ‘Wikileaks’ website, who is seeking political asylum in their country while wanted in ours.  ‘Wikileaks’ is a whistle-blowing website and you can read a little about it in a BBC article here. It’s situated in a very posh part of town and if he did want to pop out for a pint of milk, the shop on the corner is Harrods.  Still, he’s probably not going to do that as police are stationed outside, ready to arrest him if he steps back on British soil.


Thursday, September 12, 2013

Riesco Collection at Croydon Museum


A view inside one of the cabinets of the Riesco Collection at the Croydon Clocktower.  A controversial desicion has been made by the council to sell off part of the collection for an estimated £13 million.  
The collection was left to the London Borough of Croydon by local businessman Raymond Riesco.
You can find out more about the sale in this article in the Art Newspaper http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Croydon-to-sell-off-Chinese-collection/30151

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