Chinese Garden

Here's my sketch from the Chinese Garden, here in New Plymouth. I did the watercolour on the mid-left a while ago and the top-right one was sketched by Scott Wilson. It shows me sitting in the pavilion, getting the one last sunburn of the summer.

40th Worldwide Sketchcrawl Day.

Today is the 40th Worldwide Sketchcrawl Day. SketchCrawl is a global drawing marathon: taking a day to journal and draw all that is around you. Our theme this time was local parks and reserves. It was a bitterly cold day. I initially went up to the Kunming Garden, and drew the Spring Wind Pavilion.

I then went and met the others in Pukekura Park. I was so cold by that time I decided to go to the fernery and sketch there. A lot of us were of like mind. It's lovely and warm in there, plus very peaceful.

I had a go at the fish:

The challenge was to get the effect of water and the mist floating across it.

You can throw coins into the pool and Make a Wish. The money is used to buy fish food. A lot of people must make wishes as the fish are quite fat!