Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight map update

This year’s Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight map  © Peter Gander

Once again that time of the year comes around when I hopefully add (or sadly delete) breweries taking part in creating a special ‘Green Hop beer’ for the first hop harvest in The Garden of England. #KentGreenHop

Anglesey map

Hand-drawn Anglesey map  © Peter Gander

Stamford (Lincs) Map

Hand-drawn map of Stamford, Lincs.  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Hand-lettering, later comped in by computer  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Bath Row detail  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

It wouldn’t be a ‘Gander’ without a fisherman...  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander
 

Traditional Lincolnshire specialities  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Equestrian cartouche with a couple of riders that look suspiciously like my wife and her friend Liz  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

A nod to Monopoly’s icons, Water lane  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Mallard Court detail  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander
 

A woeful melon, perambulating down ‘Melancholy Walk’  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Our Liz, walking down ‘Queen’s Walk’  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Map of Canterbury, Kent

© Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Brewer slaking the thirsts of Canterbury dwellers  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

A medieval picture wouldn’t be complete without a wild hog and cow
© Peter Gander/Have a Gander

I had to get a fish or two in there  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Canterbury’s Coat of Arms  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

A potential husband displays his owl, (as you do), to a Kentish maiden
© Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Beer cart in ‘Beer Cart Lane’ (possibly off to The Foundry Brewpub, perhaps).
© Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Cockerel  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

I do love a corvid. © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Obligatory fish  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Farmhouse  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Maiden  © Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Tannery. When I was a student at Canterbury in the early 80s, you could smell the tannery from afar. It’s now long gone.
© Peter Gander/Have a Gander

Hand-drawn map

Hand-drawn map Barham Crematorium and The Jackdaw Inn

© Peter Gander

Provence Wedding Table Plan Map

Kent University Philanthropy Map

The paper

‘Scratch’, ‘dip’, or ‘quill’ pen.

I don’t like sketching out in pencil first, I prefer to dive in with ink. Riskier but a more enjoyable and spontaneous/natural line results.

A scant pencil crosshair is enough for me to work out the composition on this trick circle.

Have a Gander were recently commissioned to provide a hand-drawn map for local University of Kent at Canterbury. The map features on the inside cover flap of a book on Philanthropic Gifts to the university over the past 50 years. Work-in-progress ink and watercolour work on ‘The Langton’ 300gsm ‘Grain Fin’ paper.