I’m still fiddling with these sketches. They’re both a bit big to look good on a blog, but here are two cropped bits of ‘Waiting for the Flame’ and ‘Waiting for the Flotilla’ as a sneak preview.

We waited for half an hour and saw the torch on Bristol’s harbourside, but it was the crowds, and the feeling of gathered community, that was worth the trip.

We waited four hours on the South Bank and didn’t see a single boat in the flotilla. That was sort of worth it too.

Waiting for the Flame, Bristol Harbourside

Waiting for the Flotilla, South Bank, London