“Pepys in Westminster” | JPF and Joel L
Second of our collaborations using Google Streetview to picture the plague of 1665.

You can watch us drawing, here:
Second of our collaborations using Google Streetview to picture the plague of 1665.
You can watch us drawing, here:
Joel, or Joe, has been painting outside. We incorporated that into this picture, which also pays homage to the celebrated photo of the band, Queen.
You can watch us drawing, here:
My turn today. I chose to illustrate a quote from Samuel Pepys, in the Great Plague.
Viv wanted to draw the final scene in her memoir, a very funny book about (among other things) keeping goats.
This picture shows Viv (right) with her daughter in a disappointing cafe in the Hebrides, drinking yucky coffee:
Tech failure means I have no video this time, and am struggling to format the audio so that WordPress allows me to embed it. I hope to fix this!
Cath said she’s no good at visual art. She wanted to use our collaboration to get clearer ideas about a scene in a book.
We used drawing to work out who was in the room, and what was in there with them – then to use the “props” to develop her narrative. Bear in mind that we started with a blank page. This is what we finished with.
You can watch our process, and maybe pick up some tips about how drawing can help your writing, in the video recording:
Afterwards, Cath sent this message:
Hi JP, great to see you (on Zoom) again. I really enjoyed it. What a fresh way to unblock writers block- by having fun!