Create a Castle!

I've been quite obsessed with anything palace or castle related recently.  There's something so regal and magic about a building that is adorned with turrets, twirly gates or stone gargoyles.

I've been going around Cambridge lately looking at all the fancy college buildings, (which are breathtaking and I can't believe they are student residences!) taking out the castle-y elements and drawing them.  I thought I'd post a few of my sketchings here.

This^ is a doorway inside one of the Cambridge colleges.  I think it was St Johns.


And a photo (I can't remember the name of this college):

 It must be so nice to live in a place like this at university!  It reminds me almost of a stately home kind of place. It's so decadent!

I've found buildings such as churches and cathedrals are also useful.  The stone archways and heavy wooden doors could easily be mistaken for palace architecture if put in a different context.

I'm not very used to drawing in pencil actually.  I usually favour thin pen line drawings but I've been trying to get more depth into my pictures lately. Working on location I think that sometimes pencil can be easier to use anyway.

And finally for today, my favourite swirly twirly gate that I have seen in Cambridge so far...

I think/hope that if I put all these elements together then I could use them to create a huge and intricate palace of my own!

Swirly Twirly Whirly

Some of the amazingly intricate swirly twirly whirly gates I saw while I was in Dubai^ Some of the houses/villas out there are like palaces! No joke!



I want this perfume just for the packaging! ha^