Hot Apple Juice and beer at Broadway Market

This day (a few weeks ago) was a one of the first sunny days in a long time. It was cold but warm enough to sit outside in the sun at the Cat and Mutton pub and watch the people coming and going at Broadway Market in Hackney.

Then as soon as the sun went down it was freezing so we moved inside.

On the tube

Quick sketches of people on the underground.

Good Luck to the Barley Mow!

There are a few Barley Mow pubs about. This one is located in Shoreditch, on the corner of Curtain Road and Rivington Street. It's a small pub and a lovely spot for a drink in summer when people spill out onto the pavement.

According to wikipedia - A barley mow is a stack of barley and also a cumulative folk song. The verses of "The Barley Mow" wish good luck to various sizes of vessels of alcoholic beverages, and lastly to the barley mow, a venerable reserve of one of beer's key ingredients. Later verses supplement this list with roles and occupations associated with beer, from brewing, to distribution, to serving in public houses, to drinking. Each verse wishes good luck to a new subject, which is then added to the beginning of the litany recited in the second line of the refrain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barley_Mow

Candelabra

A candelabra at The North Pole pub N1.  Drawing in ink on a watercolour background.  I have been doing an evening drawing class and we have been experimenting with different backgrounds created in advance.