Of all the places - woodland glades, top of mountains, on a train, comfortably seated with an excellent view of the Taj Mahal (never done this one) within the crowds in front of the Louvre . . . cafés are the best places for sketching.
A cooling cup of tea, earwigging on snatches of conversation, admiring city outfits, observing people and attached dogs, ancient shady trees; a jumble of street signs, brisk waiters and folk hunched over phones, oblivious to the sounds and colour of the world that surrounds them.
I add a few scribbled words about the tea being experienced, the weather, my thoughts on that day, jobs to be done or that I've escaped from. For me, these brief drawings bring back memories, even from years ago far more resonantly than camera or phone images.
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