Sweet View: more Hammersmith & Fulham

Here be a little behind the scenes action on the colouring process for the Hammersmith & Fulham print.

Eventually it turned out like this:

Which then came back from the printers a bit like this:

Sweet View: Hammersmith & Fulham

This weekend we announced our newest Sweet View print: Hammersmith & Fulham. A view of the bridge from that nice bit outside the Blue Anchor and the Rutland Arms.

It's available to buy from the Sweet View site now.

I drew the scene back on a sunny October afternoon from what turned out to be one of the most pleasant of the Sweet spots to draw from: perched in the sun with a pint as opposed to the usual propped-against-a-bin or leaning-awkwardly-against-a-shop-window.

Here are some details:

See sweetview.co.uk for more information and our other 10 London prints.

Sweet Preview: H & F

Here's a slice of Sweet View #11: Hammersmith & Fulham, still warm from the scanner.

Sweet View: Kensington & Chelsea + Tweet View

As announced last week on our mailing list and our brand new twitter account, we at Sweet View towers have launched our tenth print: Kensington and Chelsea. It's a sweeping panorama of Sloane Square, taking in all from the Royal Court right round to Peter Jones (the corner shop, not the dragon).

It was literally made in Chelsea, with me spending hours leaning against the window of Tiffany & Co. whilst I got the lines down (it took a couple of visits, this one).

The colours - especially the lilac tarmac - are my homage to David Hockney's Garrowby Hill.

Here's a bit more detail: the listed 'Venus Fountain' and an Ocado delivery truck peeking from behind a tree.

It looks great printed, and it's available to buy now from sweetview.co.uk

Tweet View
So yes, there is now a Sweet View twitter account - we are catching up with the world. Follow us! (23 people can't be wrong...) We put up sneak previews and details on our events, like the We Make London Christmas Fair at the Battersea Arts Centre on Saturday 10th December (as seen on the Guardian website).

The next print for Sweet View will be Hammersmith & Fulham. No doubt we'll be microblogging our progress on that one too, as if you don't have enough reason to jump on the @sweet_view_ bandwagon already.

Sweet Preview

Sweet View #10 will be the charming Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. I finished the linework last weekend. Here's a little taste of it starring a couple of Kings Road mods.

(Sweet View is a series of limited edition London prints, for sale here.)

Sweet View: Islington

Sweet View #9 is Islington. It shows Camden Passage, that little lane off Upper Street in Angel. The street is home to regular antiques markets and lots of charming cafe type places. (Do check the official Camden Passage website for more info and a thrillingly mundane splash page.)


Here's some detail: the perennial queue outside the Breakfast club and an orange dog without an owner.


And here's an animation to show how the orange and all the other colours came to be. (And I had the gall to call the Camden Passage splash page mundane!)


We launched it on Sunday - in Islington, in fact - at the charming Cally Fest. Here's me feeling awkward behind all my drawings.


The print is available now along with the other 8 boroughs we've done so far at sweetview.co.uk

Sweet View: Camden

Our latest addition to the Sweet View oeuvre is borough number 8: Camden. It's available to buy at sweetview.co.uk now.

This is what the lines looked like.

This is me drawing them. I had to escape the Saturday throngs like a rat in a flood - by clambering upwards. I sat on that lonely wall for four self-conscious hours whilst tourists pointed and laughed and took photos of me.

Sweet View elsewhere

Did you see Sweet View in The Londonist?

And the interview with us on Makerhood?

And our piece about our favourite place in London, Scootercaffé, for This Is Your Kingdom?

And the interview on We Make London about our love of playing chess in the aforementioned Scootercaffé?

Next week we'll be part of the We Make London Summer Boutique in Hampstead. It's a pop-up shop opening for eight days on the 2nd July selling wares from "40 of the UK's most talented designer makers" and us. Charlotte and I are taking the first shift on Saturday - there'll be free flowing wine and Pimms from 6 if you feel inclined to visit us.

And on Sunday, 3rd July, we have a stall at Cally Fest (don't worry - it's "pop-up"). It will see Caledonian Road decked out with bunting and filled with live music, skateboarding, crafts, circus skills and all that stuff that the kids love. They'll also have the Wimbledon final on a big screen so Charlotte will inevitably spend the day hawk-eyeing the tennis leaving me to man our stall alone, no doubt while tourists point and laugh and take photos.

Sweet View: done market

We had a great time at that Crafty Fox market (see previous post). Well, that's if you call sitting inside a pub on a sunny day, feeling generally awkward and very slowly drinking a Guinness a great time. Which, of course, I do. Here's Charlotte trying to hide from customers:

It was featured in the Guardian and a fair few other places in the pre-hype, so was duly busy.

We made a little bit of money and one friend, so that's nice.

Sweet View: popping upmarket

Sweet View is going to be at the Crafty Fox Pop Up Market in the Brixton on Saturday. I'm looking forward to it because this time, unlike our last market stall on the frozen eleventh storey of a Brick Lane car park, we'll be in the Dogstar - a nice place with a warm atmosphere. And a bar. Plus there'll be three floors of great Crafty Fox stuff like DJs and tea rooms and, of course, a letter lounge (a lounge where you write letters).

The Dogstar is almost featured in our Lambeth print.


For more information on the market, click this flyer:


Do come along to see our prints LIVE and say hello (and then possibly write some letters).

Sweet View: Greenwich

We've just released our seventh Sweet View print: Greenwich - the home of time.
I posted the line work a couple of weeks ago (see here). Now, here are the colours:


See both magically combined on the Sweet View website (and then maybe buy one!).
Here's a bit of detail. We hope you all like it!

Sweet Progress

Sweet View, the humble print business selling London prints for London people we launched back in November, is kind of flourishing. We've sold a fair few of our maiden six prints through our website and we're also registering a lot of interest for the next six.

Last week I went out to charming Greenwich and drew this, which will eventually be #7:

Suggestions for a colour scheme are welcome. It should be green, perhaps. Or "gren", as the locals say.

We've been getting some pleasing coverage from across the internet and even, once, in print - in the form of that esteemed organ The Irish World. Also notably the celebrated journalist/author India Knight mentioned us on her blog and tweeted to her 33,000 followers that our prints are LOVELY (in capitals, just like that), which was nice.


Before Christmas we made our market debut in the fashionable Truman Brewery. Or more specifically in an unfashionable back room on the fifth floor of the fashionable Truman Brewery. Our table decorations (fairy lights, 8 clementines) didn't go that far to mask the metal cage that was our stall, but it was kind of fun. Next time (and there will be one soon) we'll know better. And we'll bring chairs.


Many thanks to everyone who has bought our prints or said kind things about them.

Sweet Relief

It's taken a lot of drawing, a lot of colouring, a bit of fiddly coding and a fair few arguments... but Sweet View is here! We're really proud of the whole thing - the six prints all look great and the website is fun too - do have a look around and possibly buy a print for yourself and everyone you know.



We're on facebook too, so please "like" us.

Sweet View

Sweet View (a bold venture from Charlotte and me selling a series of London based art prints online, see here) is slowly taking shape. Eventually we're going to have a print each for 12 inner London boroughs, but we've decided to launch with a select six as soon as I finish drawing them.

It shouldn't be too long now - I've done most of them. Three of them are markets.

The Lambeth one is Brixton:


The Southwark one is Borough:


And the Tower Hamlets one will be Columbia Road:


We also have a holding page and a mailing list - email info@sweetview.co.uk if you'd like to be added to it.

We both saw The Social Network the other day, and it has filled out tiny entrepreneurial heads with dollar signs. "You know what's cool?" we say as we wonder who will play us in Sweet View: The Movie. This is our time, possibly.

SweetView

I donated this cover to this weeks Le Cool. I drew it a while back as part of a project called SweetView.

SweetView is eventually going to be a series of art prints designed to resonate with Londoners. So rather than views of the London Eye with Big Ben in the background, or Big Ben with the London Eye in the background - views we only recognise from the Apprentice titles - they will be the crossroads, markets and hidden squares that provide the true backdrop to our lives. I'm running it in conjunction with Charlotte, my very own Lord Sugar, and we will launch it fully in September. There's to be twelve prints, one for each inner borough (Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Islington, Camden, Greenwich and Lewisham - suggestions for locations in each place would be gratefully received).

If you'd like a friendly email when the SweetView project launches, just email jack@jacknoel.co.uk or put a comment on this post.


The Hackney print will be the one adapted for the above cover.


Right now I'm colouring the Lambeth one - Brixton Market. Here's what the linework looks like:



There's an interview, of sorts, on the Le Cool website.