Fountains Abbey, Easter 2019 (WiP 2)
Working my way across the drawing. Looking across the site from the south gives an impression of how much the abbey complex filled the narrow valley bottom. The row of columns in the foreground are the supports of the vault that carried the monks' dormitory, or dorter. This continued all the way to the wall of the church. It was the focus of demolition work after the dissolution, along with the choir area of the church as these represented the most important aspects of the monastic movement. Drawn with a Staedtler 0.3mm pencil and Tombow Mono zero eraser in an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.
Fountains Abbey, Easter 2019 (WiP 2)
Working my way across the drawing. Looking across the site from the south gives an impression of how much the abbey complex filled the narrow valley bottom. The row of columns in the foreground are the supports of the vault that carried the monks' dormitory, or dorter. This continued all the way to the wall of the church. It was the focus of demolition work after the dissolution, along with the choir area of the church as these represented the most important aspects of the monastic movement. Drawn with a Staedtler 0.3mm pencil and Tombow Mono zero eraser in an A4 cartridge paper sketchpad.