I was going through the year's sketches and noticed a few sketches that didn't get uploaded as I went. Here's a fish & chip shop that still has a retro light-up sign and even retro branded Air New Zealand carpet on the inside. I did a quick sketch in my mini-book of this old house in the park. I came back in better weather for a colour version. This is a view from the cricket ground in Pukekura Park. It looks out towards the Tasman Sea and you can see it on the horizon. If I am sketching out in the garden, I will try to include weird bugs that might be around. Usually, it's just bees when I have my sketchbook. The really freaky stuff only comes out when I'm not drawing.
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Arcade games in the Top Town Arcade - Saying it like that makes it seem like the perfect place for Play2Win to be in town. As I was drawing and painting, people seemed to come in waves. I'd say it was before and after the times at the movies, which in New Plymouth is just an escalator ride upstairs.
If you've ever been to Peggy Gordons and thought that you may have had too many, don't worry. It's the building... NOT YOU! The toilet is in what used to be a vault. That door really IS that heavy. So have another.
Even though I'm sketching at the Moturoa shops, this really is just a sketch of this awesome tree on the top of the hill.
It seems that everyone from Taranaki that is on Instagram was at the Sunflower Meadow in the last few weeks. Since I also had those qualifications, I grabbed my sketchbook and checked it out too. While I was there I hammered out a pen sketch. It seemed like a good idea to colour it on the weekend that the rain flooded Auckland. It actually was pretty cool to be in a field of sunflowers (and bees). Here's the second one that I did on the garden festival weekend but only just decided to watercolour it too. It was a breezy day and I found myself at this picnic area overlooking a stream that was out of the wind. After sketching this one, I noticed that this garden had a place where you could get scones with jam and cream. Will draw for food! I had seen that Theory Food was setting up a pop-up cafe in one of the gardens for the GardenFest. Of course I had to go and try all the cakes. While I was there, I hammered out a sketch too. I just used a pen, on location. Later, after it was sitting in my sketchbook for a while, I decided to give it the watercolour treatment on a rainy weekend. |
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