See No Evil & Magpie

I spent quite a bit of Saturday 18th August engaged in art.  First of all, I visited this year's See No Evil in Nelson Street.  It's not all new stuff, some of the superior pieces have been saved, while the new ones continue their quality, raising the overall calibre of art from last year - in my opinion.

I left there to climb Park Street and visit the stuffed animals in Bristol's Museum and Art Gallery.  I was seeking a magpie to sketch, to understand its structure more, but what I found was a bit disappointing.  The light is dreadfully low around the exhibits, so it was impossible to capture much detail.  It was hard work to focus in such low light conditions,  I suppose it's to protect the specimens (though, visiting London's Natural History museum later in the year, I had cause to question that as the reason...)