I made three stops on the 3.5-hour drive home – two of these were cafes. I had breakfast at Ironbark in Blayney and lunch at Hounslow in Blackheath. And in between these two cafe visits I popped into Govettt’s Leap. This lookout was closed last December when I was in the Blue Mountains for...
CONTINUE READINGOn the last full day of my road trip I headed to a very special country town – Canowindra. For starters, it has a cool name! It is not pronounced Cano-windra which would be the logical way to say it. Instead, it is Ca-nowin-dra. And the ‘nowin’ part is like ‘noun’. But most importantly it...
CONTINUE READINGAnother day and another beautiful historic town! This time it was Carcoar which I visited for a few hours back in 2021. It has a very intact main street and timber bridge and therefore it’s often used in movies. In fact, while I was there I overheard a conversation about an upcoming filming project...
CONTINUE READINGIn the past week, I’ve been sketching with Pitt Pastel Pencils by Faber Castell. And it’s been a lot of fun to try a medium that I generally avoid because I’m a messy sketcher and do not like smudges! I was given a 24-set of the Pitt Pastel Pencils in the mystery box of art...
CONTINUE READINGThe next morning was overcast so I headed into Blayney for breakfast. Blayney was the closest town to the farm (15 minutes drive away) and consisted of a wide main street with an interesting variety of buildings. I didn’t actually get around to sketching the view down the main street so I’ll have to...
CONTINUE READINGOn the second day of my trip I headed to the lovely historic town of Millthorpe. Back in 2021, to quote from my blog article at the time “I made the decision not to explore it in full or to sketch too much. (Leave it for another trip!)” I remember thinking that the buildings with...
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