Another page made up of fragments… This one created from presents at my nephew’s birthday party – the all important chocolate cake, a book with its own railway track and wind-up train and some star wars lego!

One of the classic views of Sydney is just 10 minutes drive from my work, without too much peak hour traffic, parking available (and not too expensive)… What a great place to come to sketch and wind down after a busy week at work…. Although a very dull, grey afternoon there was the excitement of...

Another two pages of the various elements that make up the amazing roofscape. I love trying to work out what is really going on from photos… How then to adequately record my exploration graphically?? And then a super quick sketch to finish off the exercise.

This is going to be one of the 101 buildings when I get to more modern times (maybe building 60-something?) but I came across this plan in my recycle paper pile during the week at work and am now going to go on a little exploration of the roofscape of this amazing building. I have...

Number 6 – this project is getting bigger than Ben Hur as I seem to be going down a path of doing a mini research project for each building (rather than just using my 1001 book for a few quick sketches) but it is SO much more satisfying to get a better understanding of the...

My second sketchcrawl. Met up with 2 fellow sketchers and wandered about Pyrmont, Darling Harbour and the City sketching on a most glorious Sydney spring day. Great time sketching and lots of sketch-chatting! I then continued sketching on my own after we split up… –

Been meaning to participate in the Virtual Sketch date for a few months now http://virtualsketchdate.blogspot.com …but always seem to miss the deadline. Didn’t have much time this month so I did a 8 minute version – very loose and messy as usual.