Gurney Journey

In his daily weblog for illustrators, comic artists, plein-air painters, sketchers, animators, art students and writers, James Gurney posts his sketches of Maltese buses:

Malta is full of beautiful old churches and museums, but I was smitten by the buses. You can ride all around the island for 3.49 Euros per day, and come home with your head spinning and your lungs full of lead fumes..

It was fun to show the sketches to the guys in the station, who knew all the buses individually. There are rumors that the E.U. is going to crack down on the Maltese buses because of their unregulated emissions. In a few years, some people told me, they'll be in a museum..