An overcast afternoon sitting on the sand watching the surfers at Isolators Reef, warm and humid as cyclone travels down from the North
Isolators Reef Cottesloe
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Scultpures by the Sea Cottesloe 2022
Sculptures by the Sea Cottesloe – back again this year, visited on 17th March a gorgeous 32’C autumn day, toured the sculptures, had a swim and a sketch
Perth beaches
Perth beach sketches December 2021 and January 2022
Cessna 152
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!
Port Beach windy day quick sketch
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.
Perth city skyline
Out with the Urban Sketchers Perth recently to draw our city. View from Fraser Avenue in Kings Park overlooking the CBD. Lots of construction work around Elizabeth Quay.
Fremantle Traffic Bridge
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…
Cottesloe Beach – Rough sea
A large swell brought out the serious surfers this afternoon down at Cottesloe Beach, only the brave ventured into the water to try catch a wave before it broke on the beach…This sketch painted really rapidly directly with watercolour (no drawing first – didn’t have time as the rain clouds were approaching) surfers added at the end with fountain pen
City Beach Winter Sunset
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
Perth Zoo
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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