This week I visited the Bonnington Pleasure Gardens in Vauxhall. I spent some time in the gardens and going around the surrounding area. Unfortunately, due to the changing weather condition, I wasn’t able to produce many sketches on location but did get plenty of photos to draw from. The gardens is a beautifully overgrown little place so I want to capture this through my illustrations. Here are some of the photos I’m going to use as reference:
These are the illustrations of animals from the Bonnington Gardens. Here are a set of more anatomically-focused illustrations of some birds I saw.
Some bold marker style snails.
A detailed watercolour study of a cat heavily inspired by Beatrix Potter and Marco Brodde.
I also went back to Hyde Park to get some more photos. Because I had already done some sketches from Hyde Park, I had a more focused idea of what to photograph in order to comprehensively study the area.
This illustration took inspiration from the work of George Butler. I really like way the watercolour and biro overlap but don’t fit perfectly.
I used a similar style to depict some flowers that where in Hyde Park.
I have enough source material to work from so now I can focus on producing my illustrations and creating the art book for them.
Samuel Green Illustration 