St Mary's Abbey: Getting to grips with 13th century arches
I am discovering a lot about how the blind adding was put together by drawing the detail. The skill of the masons is incredible to look at, so much so I took a detail shot of the drawing at this early stage to emphasise it. There are low relief canopies over the double-arched heads of the arcading. It is more remarkable as it is has survived since the 1280s or 1290s and the partial demolition of the building since the Reformation. From the lid 16th century the Abbey site was used as a quarry for building stone. Drawn in A4 cartridge paper sketchbook with a Pentel 0.3mm mechanical pencil and Tombow Mono Zero eraser, the latter almost as important as the former.
St Mary's Abbey: Getting to grips with 13th century arches
I am discovering a lot about how the blind adding was put together by drawing the detail. The skill of the masons is incredible to look at, so much so I took a detail shot of the drawing at this early stage to emphasise it. There are low relief canopies over the double-arched heads of the arcading. It is more remarkable as it is has survived since the 1280s or 1290s and the partial demolition of the building since the Reformation. From the lid 16th century the Abbey site was used as a quarry for building stone. Drawn in A4 cartridge paper sketchbook with a Pentel 0.3mm mechanical pencil and Tombow Mono Zero eraser, the latter almost as important as the former.