The Story Behind the Urban Sketching

When I was visiting my family in the UK, One of my friends was kind enough to drive me down to London to visit Harry Potter World. This was something I wanted to do for ages, ever since part of the Harry Potter set came out to Australia.

If you ever visit London I would recommend doing the studio tour. It was just unreal to be walking among all the props and giant sets. Seeing Hogwarts castle and the Hogwarts Express were definitely my highlights and the fact that you could walk right up to them.

It was bringing fictional books to life and turning the magical world in to the real world something that you could see and touch, also you could drink some butter beer. I was impressed at my age I can only imagine what a child would think of it.

So I was thinking that I wanted to paint something from this Harry Potter experience but I thought that the Hogwarts express would be too difficult and settled for the knight bus instead. And I already had a spare square frame in mind that would fit the buss nicely.

My Sketching and Painting Process

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Watercolour Paint, Ink & Paper

I use Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour on Arches France Watercolour Paper, 300g Hot Pressed or Fabriano Artistico Watercolour Paper 300g Hot Pressed..

Tombo Brush Pens N15, N45, N55, N60, N65, N95 and Faber Castell Fine-liners 0.05, 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7

My painting come from my own experiences that I have photographed while traveling. By reading this blog, you as a viewer can now hear The Story Behind the Painting. Where, when, what was happening while I was photographing the wildlife. 

Enjoy, Chris Osborne