London sketchcrawl: Saturday 24 May

Old Street roundabout

There is a London Urban Sketchers sketchcrawl on Saturday 24 May 2014, meeting at 11am at Timberyard cafe, Old Street, where there is currently a show of drawings by five of the London group (including me, actually). The idea is to then head east towards Shoreditch to finish around 3.30pm at the Shoreditch High Street overground station. Want to come? Need more information? There's more at the London Urban Sketchers website. It's free, relaxed and everyone is welcome — just bring something to draw on and with. And stay as long as you want.

Timberyard, 61-67 Old Street, London EC1V 9HW
www.timberyardlondon.com
@urbsketchlondon

From a Turkish cafe, north London

Stoke Newington has Church Street, with numerous cafes, organic stores, independent shops and all the trendy stuff, and the traffic-laden High Street, part of the old Roman Ermine Street running due north from London Bridge, which morphs culturally through Shoreditch, Dalston, Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill, but with an essentially edgier feel. Church Street and High Street: one would be pretty much unbearable without the other.
The High Street has a good line of Turkish restaurants and cafes, too, one of which I drew this from. Dear old Gilbert and George can occasionally be spotted eating in one of the restaurants down the road. That's definitely one for the I-Spy book of Contemporary Artists.