Paritutu

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.

Colourize Project: Rangimarie Paritutu

Here's another from what I call my Colourize Project, which is taking previous sketches, usually going back to where I drew them, and giving them the watercolour treatment.
This is of the Rangimarie Arts & Crafts Centre with Paritutu in the background. This has been in the news lately since it is to be moved from the port area to allow for seaport expansion.

Paritutu

Paritutu is a 150 metre tall volcanic rock on the coast of New Plymouth at Port Taranaki. It's a pretty weird mix of nature and industry here. You can climb the thing and see Mount Taranaki, the Tasman Sea and the natural coastline of cliffs and black ironsand beaches. Then turn around and you get the start of the port and tank farms. The smokestack that's there is from an old gas power station and is taller at about 200 metres.