Birthday in Covent Garden
Author: Sasala Wickramasinghe
Urban sketching and watercolour is my hobby. I'm a biochemist by training and work for the NHS full time as a healthcare scientist. Most of my free time, outside my day job is devoted to art and urban sketching. I am a self confessed nerd when it comes to watercolour and art materials in general. I approach them with the same curiosity and passion as I do for biochemistry - because after all, colour is science!
I travel to sketch and sketch to travel.
I'm an active member of Urban Sketchers London - part of a global sketching community which I only discovered in 2017.
Market Square Cambridge
Sketching in Cambridge on a stormy day
Kyoto Garden
Sketching in the Design Museum and Holland Park with USk London in November 2021
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle from the Vennel Steps.
The floating bookshop
Word on the Water, floating bookshop on Regent’s Canal
Looking down on Covent Garden
Historical account written in October 2022 – Isabel Carmona and I met up on a cold December afternoon in 2021 to plan the 10-year anniversary of USk London the following year. Little did I know it would turn out to be the most amazing and eventful year for me as an admin with the London… Continue reading Looking down on Covent Garden
Autumn at Kew Gardens
Kew with the Japanese Pagoda at the distance.
The Making of Rodin
Tate Modern, London
Scotland
Scotland with family
Oxford
Another fun urban sketching meet up, this time, in historic Oxford. So much to see and sketch, so little time! Oxford Urban Sketchers welcomed ~15 sketchers from London, Manchester and Leeds. It was as fun as it was exhausting, and we had glorious weather most of the weekend. Martyrs’ Memorial on St Gile’s Radcliffe Camera… Continue reading Oxford