Month / April 2026

by Leonie Andrews

Another one in the series

Now we are moving into Autumn my drawings of the vegetables in our garden are transmogrified into seed sketches. You can see some previous sketches here.

This week’s offering is of our Dwarf Burgundy Snake Beans. Alas, these few beans are the sum total of this year’s crop. They really didn’t enjoy our summer weather at all.

Coloured pencil on paper
Caran d’Ache Luminance pencils
by Leonie Andrews

Mt Gambier sketching trip

At the start of April we caught up with fellow Urban Sketchers from Geelong and the Fleurieu Peninsula, at a roughly halfway between them point, in the rural city of Mt Gambier, South Australia. 

Opening night sketching, eating and drinking at one of the local breweries
First morning sketch session

There were catching up with friends and making new ones. The sketching was fun because I didn’t sketch much the last time I came here.

Another brewery/cafe in an old woolstore
The Railway lands was once the station for the city, now gone, instead there is now thriving community parkland with these very symbolic sculptures
The city is built on limestone formations and there are many sink-hole in the area. This one was famously turned into a park in Victorian times.
A tricky angle to capture!
The nearby coastline was very dramatic.
The Old Gaol
A controversial new sculpture. A recent court case saw a woman fined for gluing ‘googly’ eyes to it!