Arlington Court

The new season at Arlington Court has now started, and I'm back helping...such a gorgeous place to be a volunteer.  New ponies to look after, more about them in the weeks to come, but for the moment I checked out the harness room and the old hay loft displays...

photo (1) .... I love this harness room it's got such a cosy feel about it...

and to the right from where the above photo was taken, the Stables...

then to the left from the harness room photo (1), there are displays of carriages including this ....

  Queen Victoria's

Pony Phaeton

This carriage was used by Queen Victoria at Osborne House on the  
Isle of Wight.

The dash board was made higher than normal as the Queen felt it inappropriate to see her pony’s bottom! (umm…~ obviously not amused ~ I suppose she didn’t want to watch what came out of it!!)

This carriage is painted in the royal colours, maroon, lined bright red.

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There are lots more displays of carriages at Arlington, and I'll get around to
sketches and doing photos of those too.

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On up to the former hay loft which now houses more displays

During the day I took the opportunity to do some sketching...

... this Clock Tower was on Winsor & Newton watercolour postcard paper, I actually

gave this sketch away to a visitor, who went off happy with it (I hope).

Other sketches I did were...

and

which I intend to 'abandon' this week over at Arlington.  I've joined a group on Facebook called
Art Abandonment,  where you leave a piece of art with a little message that it is Free Art for somebody to keep -
 (here's a bit more about the group)
 I pop the sketches into a clear plastic sleeve with a message on the front...

and on the back...

Over the coming weeks I will be doing more of these
and hope that people will enjoy them.

Incidentally, I will be letting the Art Abandonment Group on Facebook

know what I have 'abandoned' under the name

Ann TheSketcher

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