Pencil and watercolour. I'm quite liking going across both pages of my Moleskine Sketch Book.
26 Mar 2017
Centennial Park Top Car Park.
It was a grey moody day yesterday and I had an hour or so to kill. I
wasn't feeling too well, so shopping was out. I went up to Centennial
Park and sat in the car sketching the view of the Saddle Back Rock and
Paritutu Rock. It was raining on and off. Hopefully I've caught the
moody colours.
Pencil and watercolour. I'm quite liking going across both pages of my Moleskine Sketch Book.
Pencil and watercolour. I'm quite liking going across both pages of my Moleskine Sketch Book.
16 Mar 2017
Taranaki Multi-Ethnic Parade
When the parade was finished, I was still drawing and some of the groups were now walking back to the start area where, I guess, their cars were. On the sidewalk, there was a group of Irish kids together with some Chinese kids, both in national costume. Proud mums were taking photos of the multicultural bunch who was having a good ol' time. They were just having fun and not noticing that what they were doing was actually the whole point of the event.
12 Mar 2017
Sketch New Plymouth
Sketch New Plymouth weekend - Seaside Market at Ngamotu Beach , New Plymouth. Great time for families with a wide variety of stalls and bean bags for anyone to enjoy.
The weekend coincided with New Plymouth's annual Multi Ethnic Extravaganza with a parade in the morning and a gala fair for the rest of the day.
4 Mar 2017
Let’s Sketch New Plymouth’ Informal Aotearoa Urban Sketching weekend 4/5 March
Today was the first day of the 'Informal' Aotearoa Urban Sketching weekend. What a full on day it was too. Last night we had a dinner and a few of us sketched each other across the table:
Faye Sketching at Dinner.
Today the early birds started by sketching in the area of the Len Lye Centre. I met up with everyone at Ozone Coffee Roasters. It decided to rain, so we stayed put and sketched. I started sketching a cool leather bag that was hanging up on one of the coat hooks. Trouble was, the owner came and took it before I had finished!
We then went and had a look around the Len Lye Centre and the Govett Brewster Art Gallery. After that? Lunch.
Next stop Pukekura Park. I decided to try the Band rotunda. I've looked at this many times, but I've never tried to sketch it as it is quite intricate. I thought I would be brave today.
And here's a few photos:
Eileen, Paul and Maurice:
Dave and Andrew:
Eric, Paul and Maurice:
A gaggle of sketchers at the band rotunda:
Liliana from Lyttelton:
Coreen and Brian:
Eric from Auckland:
Coreen, Brian and Liliana:
The Wellington Group:
Dave and Andrew:
Faye Sketching at Dinner.
Today the early birds started by sketching in the area of the Len Lye Centre. I met up with everyone at Ozone Coffee Roasters. It decided to rain, so we stayed put and sketched. I started sketching a cool leather bag that was hanging up on one of the coat hooks. Trouble was, the owner came and took it before I had finished!
We then went and had a look around the Len Lye Centre and the Govett Brewster Art Gallery. After that? Lunch.
Next stop Pukekura Park. I decided to try the Band rotunda. I've looked at this many times, but I've never tried to sketch it as it is quite intricate. I thought I would be brave today.
And here's a few photos:
Eileen, Paul and Maurice:
Dave and Andrew:
Eric, Paul and Maurice:
A gaggle of sketchers at the band rotunda:
Liliana from Lyttelton:
Coreen and Brian:
Eric from Auckland:
Coreen, Brian and Liliana:
The Wellington Group:
Dave and Andrew:
2 Mar 2017
Americarna 2017
Below is an Impala and a Belair from two years ago, and I've coloured last year's sketch too.
1 Mar 2017
We found a miniature bird's nest and egg.
So I haven't been to sketching much lately, what with one thing and another, so I thought I had better get my eye back in before the weekend.
On Sunday my Dad was trimming a tree and by luck really as it was so small we found a bird's nest with the remains of a very small egg in it. He thought it was a Fantail's nest as it had very little dark feathers in it as part of the construction.
So after a bit of research, I've decided it's not a Fantail's nest, but a Goldfinch's nest. A fantail lays a speckled creamy brown egg and has a much more elaborate nest. A sparrow also lays a speckled egg, so I have deduced this must be a Goldfinch nest. Mum and Dad have heaps of them at their place, so that would fit. It is very cleverly constructed using strands of blue baling twine, horse hair, little dark feathers, moss, grass, twigs and much more. When I looked it up the Goldfinch's nests I found online looked very similar and had blue or blue speckled eggs in them.
Here is my painting:
I took it outside to photograph it. I quite like the effect.
As you can see by the biro for scale, it was tiny.
On Sunday my Dad was trimming a tree and by luck really as it was so small we found a bird's nest with the remains of a very small egg in it. He thought it was a Fantail's nest as it had very little dark feathers in it as part of the construction.
So after a bit of research, I've decided it's not a Fantail's nest, but a Goldfinch's nest. A fantail lays a speckled creamy brown egg and has a much more elaborate nest. A sparrow also lays a speckled egg, so I have deduced this must be a Goldfinch nest. Mum and Dad have heaps of them at their place, so that would fit. It is very cleverly constructed using strands of blue baling twine, horse hair, little dark feathers, moss, grass, twigs and much more. When I looked it up the Goldfinch's nests I found online looked very similar and had blue or blue speckled eggs in them.
Here is my painting:
I took it outside to photograph it. I quite like the effect.
As you can see by the biro for scale, it was tiny.
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