We parked at the Catholic church and walked down the road toward Nelson Mandela Bridge. My first sketch shows the the road leading to the bridge.
![Bertha Street Looking down Bertha Street towards Nelson Mandela Bridge](http://www.johnphilip.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sketch001.jpg)
The next sketch was far more intense. Try to grasp the perspective lines, the joins in the railways, which train belongs to which track… Would have been great fun in oils actually. But a little awkward spot for that.
![Joburg - South African Railways View of the railways from Nelson Mandela Bridge](http://www.johnphilip.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sketch002.jpg)
![Sketchers at Mandela Bridge Joburg Sketchers gathered at Nelson Mandela Bridge](http://www.johnphilip.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/14012012135.jpg)
It was already around midday and some went home, but some of us needed MORE! …so we walked around quite a bit until Barbara spotted a stairwell on the corner of an office block which looked to have a view of Nelson Mandela Bridge. After going up and down the office block, being told by security we couldn’t get there, refusing to accept that, we eventually found an open door to level 4 parking lot! :-)
![Mandela Bridge - looking down. Looking out from an office block at Nelson Mandela Bridge](http://www.johnphilip.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sketch003.jpg)
Related links:
- The group’s sketches on Facebook
- Barbara Moore’s blog post
- Cathy Bricka Giordano’s blog post
- Cathy Gatland’s blog post.