Trip to London with Helen C Stark

Drooling over art supplies, sipping cocktails and sketching at The British Museum. Includes swatching and (over) packing for the trip!

I put together this video where I shared the recent in-real-life meet-up with the wonderful

Helen C Stark

in London!

In this video I share art material swatching, what I took with me, an insight into the trip and places I visited, meeting with Helen and sketching in The British Museum with the lovely

Natasha Cross

. I then share the sketches I made, along with some thoughts on packing light for my next sketch meet! 😆

Here are some links to the materials I packed and to the places we visited:

Drawing pens: A selection of chisel tip pens in black and grey, black pental brush sign pen.

Watercolour brush markers: A selection of Tombow dual brush pens and Ecoline watercolour brush pens

Coloured pencils: Including Derwent Coloursoft, Caran D Ache Luminance and Aquarelle, Holbein.

Brush pens: Derwent water brush pens filled with Rohrer & Klingner inks. Pental brush pens in grey and black

Other: Graphite Aquarelle pencil and Pitt Graphite Matt pencil in 14B. Neocolour I in white.

Sketchbooks: Pith Cara Cara and Jackson’s A6 soft cover cartridge paper sketchbook (a great little budget travel sketchbook)

Sketching Grecian goats at The British Museum

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On the way to meet Helen, I walked through Bloomsbury, an area of London which has historical links to 19th and early 20th-century art movements including the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and The Bloomsbury Group. I came across several important houses, including the place where the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded, the home of art patron and society hostess (with an excellent name) Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (another excellent name), a leader in the women's suffrage movement.

Cornelissen Art Shop

The Coral Room

The British Museum

I hope you enjoyed this round-up of my trip to London. Me and Helen are planning another trip in the summer of 2025, details will go out to our paid members, we hope you can join us!