Quick demo of how to draw a crowd scene or people in the distance – no need for details.. just assemble the letter “n” “w” and “o” and you have a person! Vary the width and length for different body shapes but remember if the ground is flat then all the heads should be on the horizon/eye line unless you’re looking down or up at the people. Add movement by varying one of the “w” legs (walking/running forward/backward), accessorize….
Quick sketch of a Cessna 152 light aircraft at Jandakot Airport. Seats two people, son went up for a 1 hour joy ride, controls for both passengers, he got to take off and fly the aircraft (qualified pilot did the landing and tricky bits). They flew across the city and ocean to Rottnest, lap around the island, did a barrel roll, loop-the-loop and stall turn, something different!
The “Freo doctor” (afternoon on shore breeze) was in so the the kitesurfers were out at Leighton Beach.
Coloured pencils on Clairefontaine notebook
Windy morning at Port Beach last month, freighters lined up in Gage Roads to enter Fremantle harbour, parts of the car park are fenced off, big winter storms have washed away the beach and tarmac.
The wooden Fremantle Traffic bridge (opened 15th December 1939) is due to be demolished and replaced by a new structure in the next few years… Each of the main wooden pillars is hand carved with numbers (in roman numerals), the criss-cross of West Australian timber bolted together is quite unique, it would be a shame to lose such an iconic structure – should be kept as a bike/pedestrian bridge!
Sketched in ink before colour…
View from the top of Temple Gorge Escarpment in the Kennedy Range (Mundatharrda in the local language group), looking out across the wide gently rolling plains of the Lyons River. Several scrambles up the gorges, rock pools with water according to the season. The colours of the rock vary from yellow ochre to deep iron oxide red, iron blue and white quartz. Ancient rock “bubbles” scattered around – stratified in different shades when the molten rock cooled about 300 million years ago. The cool gorges attract various wildlife, sit still beside a rock pool for a while and the local birds become brave enough to come close to drink.
A big swell but little breeze yesterday…sitting sketching on Cottesloe Groyne
The “golden hour” glow of winter sun at City Beach Perth yesterday, the sun officially set at 5.19pm. This sketch took around half an hour drawing and painting in my new (first page) “Seawhite of Brighton” sketchbook bought in Winchester in the UK during a pre-covid holiday. It seems very good paper, bright white with a “Not” finish gives enough texture to get the dry-brush effect that I wanted for the white water waves, the 200gsm thickness didn’t buckle or warp.
Waterbrush and 6 colours…Hansa yellow medium, Yellow ochre, Transparent pyrrol orange, Quinacridone lilac, Indanthrone blue, Phthalocyanine blue (green shade). I’m finding that I can mix almost any colour I need with just these 6 colours, this is my variation on Jane Blundell’s recommendations for limited palette. Check out Jane’s blog for ideas of a limited palette below…
https://janeblundellart.blogspot.com/2014/08/colour-exploration-4-bright-non.html
https://www.janeblundellart.com/sketchbook-pages.html
A blustery, stormy day for the second week of winter this year, Bennion Beach (next to Trigg Beach) was being pounded by the big waves, sand scraped off the limestone rocks and swept along to the next bay. Indigo sky threatened rain (showers on and off today) but strangely not cold. This was a rapid sketch as there was no shelter at the beach…
A spontaneous day trip to Perth Zoo yesterday, a lovely warm and sunny late autumn day was a great time to visit the zoo to sketch the animals. I spent about 4 1/2 hours wandering around sketching at random (it costs $33 to get in so had to make the most of time).
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