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Selfie on the Walkway

3/19/2025

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Just someone enjoying the sun and not noticing that someone was drawing them. 
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Re-opening of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery

11/13/2024

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The art gallery in Whanganui has been closed for years while they strengthened in from earthquakes and added a new modern wing. It's now around 100 years old but feels like a brand new gallery with a really great art collection. I was using my stealth mini-sketchbook to capture the opening and some of the performers on the weekend.
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New Plymouth Bike Kitchen

11/4/2024

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It's hard to describe this place. Volunteers fix old bikes for donation. They take old bikes, get them ride-worthy and then sell them cheap. They collect tons of bike parts. The have a few sweet vintage bikes as trophies for good measure.
It's really about getting (and keeping) people onto bikes in Taranaki. They are only open for a couple hours on Saturdays, and then Wednesdays after 5. With so much detail, and the panorama book, it took a couple of weekends to sketch it all. After another week, I thought it needed colour so I went back for another Saturday to watercolour. I found it hard to sketch it all in quickly since I ended up chatting about bikes with the people checking out my drawing.
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Most Ugly Building

9/26/2024

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There's a weird mixed-use building that has a radio station on the top and a Senior Citizens Association on the bottom. It's architecturally weird. It sort of has a barn shape but it's not symmetrical. The bottom front wall is covered in ceramic tiles like it's a bathroom or a space shuttle. And the colour scheme is so bad that there's no way I couldn't colour it. It was sketched in April, and uploaded now.  Just after I finished the watercolour I noticed that they repainted the building. It's even a bit uglier NOW. Perfect for sketching!
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Stratford Tattoo

9/18/2024

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Just a watercolour sketch of a cool old building by the tracks in the town of Stratford, New Zealand.
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Colliers Building

8/4/2024

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We had a group sketch at the Colliers Building on the weekend. I sat on the same bench several years ago.
​Activity time: Spot 8 differences!
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Taranaki Top Shop

7/25/2024

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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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Te Henui Cemetery

7/24/2024

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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.
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Bone Carving

7/22/2024

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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.
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Brougham St from the alley

4/9/2024

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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.
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