The owners of this unusual Bracken St home kindly let us sketch. It was built in 1911 for NP businessman Charles Stuart Curtis in what was then Glen Road. Designed by Stratford architect J Healy. Suffering damage in a recent tornado it underwent much rejuvenation including reroofing with imported US rubber tiles.
20 Dec 2020
28 Nov 2020
Infusion
Market Day approaching the busy season. When the vendor saw me sketching and I offered to send him a copy he kindly gave my some yummy beef.
15 Nov 2020
7 Nov 2020
24 Oct 2020
Colourful Villa
Today some of us had fun sketching Virginia's colourful early villa in Devon St West She tells us it began life as a cottage built in 1862 with the frontage added in the 1870's.
21 Oct 2020
Fitzroy Beach
20 Oct 2020
Alfa Romeos
A calm New Plymouth morning found 50 Alfa Romeos from all over New Zealand parked up by the sea for their 'Show and Shine'.
15 Oct 2020
Palm tree in the rain
10 Oct 2020
Palestine Protest
8 Oct 2020
Unloading a Windfarm
5 Oct 2020
29 Sept 2020
The excuse to invite our Taranaki Sketchers around was to celebrate the installation of my pou which includes our family background, origins, interests, jobs and waka (ships our families immigrated on)
Pukekura Park
While Brian was sketching the lake and Poet's bridge I sat in the sun and drew the queueing at the Tea Rooms ice cream hatch