Drawn to nature

We will meet in the car park of the Bridge pub in Waterbeach, near Clayhithe Bridge, for 3 hours of sketching nearby. There’s plenty to draw from the riverbank, or in nearby Cow Hollow Wood. I have often seen house martins nesting under the bridge. At 5pm, we will meet back outside the pub to see each others’ work and perhaps stay in their lovely garden for a drink. You can also sketch from the pub garden providing you buy drinks (I haven’t booked anything with the pub).

If you come by car, it’s best to park in the station car park at £2.50 a day (a short walk from the bridge). There is also a bike rack there. Trains from Cambridge every 30 mins take 9 mins (or 5 mins from Cambridge North).
There is a footpath from the station car park to the river, which avoids walking on the road. You can also use the PR5 bus from Cambridge, but it’s a slightly longer walk from Waterbeach village green.

If you arrive late, look out for people drawing by the river Cam (this may be on the towpath across the road from the pub, and/or over the bridge on the other side of the river), or in nearby Cow Hollow Wood.

Please bring your own sketching materials, as usual. A sketching stool or picnic blanket may also be useful.

Lammas Land is the venue this time, one the most incredible green spots in the city. There are some ancient willows and fruit trees, and an interesting log. You can easily cross to Sheep's Green or Coe Fen if you'd prefer.

https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/lammas-land

This session will require everyone to volunteer some time for posing, so that we have a model for roughly four 30 minute sessions each. If you want to do things a bit differently in your group and do two 15 minute poses each or whatever, of course that's fine.

Please meet by the interesting log, by the junction of Barton Road and Driftway, and I will use a few playing cards at the beginning to randomly sort us into "pods" of 4 or 5 people each to decide which group you're with.

As usual, I request that everyone show their drawings at the end of the event, if you possibly can. We'll do this at the end, just before 1pm.

If you're wondering about the name of the event, it's a reminder that although we spend a lot of time in this group drawing trees and rivers, we are nature too, we are not separate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgD_wE9ou5k