This is another set of sketches that I put aside from the Taranaki Top Shop Awards. (These are regional retail shop awards.) I hammered these out on the awards night and then put them away. I tried to be a bit stealthy as it was. I didn't think that I could pull out a set of watercolours... but I knew that this needed to be in colour. So, NOW, here it is. I also pulled out my mini-book for a second sketch of the band and dancing that happened after the award were presented.
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This was drawn, on location, a couple of months ago when the leaves were starting to fall off the trees. Lately, I've been dusting off some old sketches that I've been putting aside. Ones that I thought would look good in colour but didn't have the time on the day I was there. I have a few backed up here, freshly coloured, just waiting for the scanner.
We went back to the artisans at the Rangimarie Maori Arts & Crafts Centre. We've been there before and they are a very welcoming bunch. Several artists were working on their projects. Scott and I decided to sit in the middle and get the full wide-view. There's an old-timey building on Brougham Street in New Plymouth that stands out because it is painted bright red with gold highlights. I was trying to find that perfect angle that sketchers look for. I found it in the alley, looking out into the sunny street.
So I'm still using this red pen. The ink is supposed to be waterproof but I haven't tried it yet. I did this drawing on the weekend and yesterday tried going overtop with a red watercolour paint. The ink seems to have stayed where I put it so I might keep using this from time to time.
Urban Sketchers from around New Zealand travelled to Whanganui to sketch over a weekend. These are a bunch of sketches and a video from my experience. A sketch of the crowd viewing the cars running down the length of Devon Street in New Plymouth during Americarna.
The Te Henui Cemetery is on our local garden trail every year since it is maintained by a bunch of volunteers. As a result, it actually is a pretty nice garden and not really that creepy at all.
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