Coastal Walkway

On the first Saturday after New Zealand went to level one, the sun came out and tons of people were on the Coastal Walkway in New Plymouth.

Potpourri

Nice Hotel today above, Nice hotel below 11 years ago.

Peggy Gordon's Pub corner

East End

Sketching at our place this time

Monarch Butterflies

On our daily Covid19 exercise walks around an adjacent schoolgrounds, we noticed a late-season swarm of monarch butterflies. So I took a few videos to do some drawing and painting at home.

ANZAC Lockdown

My grandfather and two brothers went to Gallipoli, two came home.  He set off aged 21 and got home 6 years later.

Lockdown Garden Art

Exercise this weekend - to sketch some of our garden art

Lockdown Cartoon

Lockdown Front Door

There was some concern about the muscular legs

Iona Dairy

In New Plymouth, the Iona Dairy has a reputation of reasonably generous scoops of ice cream. So after a bit of drawing and painting, we decided to go for a taste test. What do you think?

This one was actually done a few weeks ago. You know... before the world was put on Pause. Looking forward to getting back to normal things like dairy product research again. In the meantime, I'll be drawing and painting (and snacking) around our house.

Fitzroy Motor Camp

These WOMADers from up north at the Fitzroy Motor camp had an interesting sleeping setup.  No sooner than I finished than they wanted to buy it to frame at home as a reminder of a happy time.  I tore it out and gave it to them.  A few days later they thoughtfully told me they were sending me an art voucher.

Taranaki Radio Controlled Cars

Today at the Nationals of the Taranaki Radio controlled cars: The workshops were a hive of industry