My new blog
- where you can find more easily some of my architectural sketches from my big overseas trips and where I plan to share tips and ideas on how to understand architecture through sketching .... it is called
Sketching Architecture

Thursday, January 26, 2012

120126 Five years of sketching

To celebrate my 5th year anniversary of keeping sketchbooks I decided to do a sort and label all of them. Over the last 2 years I have had to stack these books in more efficient ways...but I am afraid I will have to find a new shelf soon...

(three books here are ongoing - the current one No. 46, my Zoo book and my colour book.)


There are about 8 different sketchbooks in there(and most covered with different paper) but when stacked end on they look lovely and uniform!!!!


070127 First Ever Moleskine Page
this is where it all began 5 years ago.... little doodles with notes every where...(what my travel sketches used to be)

There is no doubt that practice and hard work (loving every moment and especially enjoying the process as much as the end results) does lead to development of skills.

Thanks for all the inspiration and encouragement - certainly going online (which I did 16 months after starting) made a huge impact!

120126 Australia Day- Our hills hoist


Happy Australia Day! Due to morning rain I am having a quiet day watching sport... but I did get out this arvo when I saw a patch of blue and sketched our hills hoist (clothes line)
This is a bit of a half hearted page... but I was not going to draw any Aussie food!

BTW it is 5 years today since I started my first ink and watercolour sketchbook.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

120125 Quick sketch Avenue Rd Cafe Mosman

Here is a really rushed sketch I did today while waiting for some new lenses. Fantastic cup of tea and a lovely chat to the woman sitting next to me.
I had to add some of the colour tonight as I needed to get to work (very busy day!)

I worked in Mosman(Sydney) for 9 years. Over the past 5 years there has been a lot of change and a lot more coffee shops. I was told that this place would probably have the best tea...indeed I couldn't fault it! Sensational brand of tea, good portion etxc (of course a fine china tea cup would given it bonus points!)

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Sketchcrawl 34 - Plan A and Plan B!

Great sketchcrawl day... nice breakfast, 2 sketches at Plan A before rain hit and we went to Plan B, finished the day with special treatment at T2.
We had a great group of sketchers... maybe around 30 people, great to see the usual suspects and meet some new people. Lots of great work and lovely, although we were scattered to keep bumping into sketchers all day!
120121 Sketchcrawl 34_01 Breakfast
120121 Sketchcrawl 34_02 Anzac Memorial Warmup
120121 Sketchcrawl 34_03 Plan A_Anzac Memorial Wash out
120121 Sketchcrawl 34_04 Plan B_Australian Museum
120121 Sketchcrawl 34_05 Museum Bones
120121 Sketchcrawl 34_06 Museum Search and Discover
And a few photos
Sketchcrawl 34 - Hyde Park when the rain started coming down
Sketchcrawl 34 - Hyde Park ...too wet!
Hyde Park when the rain started coming down
Sketchcrawl 34 - in the museum
Sketching bones
Sketchcrawl 34 - not all the dinosaurs are bones
A sketcher being attacked by a walking dinosaur!

Friday, January 20, 2012

Getting ready for tomorrow's sketchcrawl

Hope the rain stays away for us but thankful that we don't have snow storms to battle against.
Have a great day everyone wherever you are.
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