Drawing a beer: the artist sketching every London pub

Lydia Wood sits opposite The Atlas pub in west London, meticulously adding detail to her drawing of the building and pausing only occasionally to sharpen her pencil. The 28-year-old artist has built up a sizeable TikTok and Instagram following with her detailed sketches of well-loved London pubs. She has set an ambitious but, she thinks, not impossible, goal — drawing all 3,500 of them. So far she has managed “a few hundred”, many of them near to her home in Catford, southeast London, she told AFP. The project came about during the coronavirus pandemic when lockdown meant she was unable to wo…

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