Back to one of my favourite sketching subjects – the umbrella. This time in watercolour with a pen and ink background drawing.
Umbrella, watercolour, pen and ink, 29 April 2015
Cafe Wednesday
Tag / location sketch
Down by the riverside
Time to post the remaining watercolours and drawings of our houseboat trip. Some of these works were made when we tied up for the afternoon.
Across from our home mooring, scrubby trees, saplings and reeds, watercolour, 14 April 2015
In the evenings and the early mornings, the light on the cliffs was truly magic.
Colour study of the river cliffs, watercolour and graphite, 15 April 2015
As the boat cruised along the river I sat out the front and tried to capture some of the passing scenery.
Images of the river in passing, graphite and watercolour, 14-16 April 2015
Cafe Wednesday – windswept
It was blowing a howling southerly on Wednesday, not quite as bad as that experienced by my family in the Hunter Valley of NSW, but bad enough. I drew these two gents who, like us had retreated into the cafe to get warm and enjoy a chat. I was trying to draw from the inside out, that is not starting with outlines but only adding them later as necessary.
Two old men chatting, pen and ink, 22 April 2015
Slow days on the river
Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), watercolour and graphite pencil, 14 April 2015
Part of the birthday celebrations, just past, included four days on a house boat on the lower portion of the Murray River, part of the largest river system in the country.
There was lots to draw including a wide range of bird life. The most obvious were the pelicans (Pelecanus conspicillatus), calmly paddling along the river and getting a very good feed, it seemed, at every turn. I made a variety of sketches during our trip trying to capture some of the variety of the bird’s actions I observed.
Pelicans, water soluble graphite, 15 April 2015
Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena) flew around the boat continuously capturing insects disturbed by our passing and cheekily roosting on the rails of the boat. We also saw lots of Australian Darters (Anhinga melanogaster) sitting, drying their wings, on convenient branches on the river margins. The darters lived up to their name with their necks twisting and swiveling to see what was happening in their vicinity.
A pelican, some welcome swallows and some darters, graphite and watercolour, 14 & 15 April 2015
Next post I’ll share with you some of the river scenery.
Farewell to summer
My partner said the other day that we won’t be going swimming down the beach anymore until the summer comes around again. How true. I saw snow on Mt Franklin as I was driving home yesterday. So here is a last hurrah for summer.
I realised that I never posted these drawings from one of our beach trips in late February.
Windswept, watercolour and graphite, 27 February 2015
The local high school was spending the afternoon learning surfing for sport (not in my day, boo hoo).
High school students waiting to start their surfing lesson, watercolour and graphite, 27 February 2015
And last but not least, a screeching gull determined to get some hot chips for lunch.
Screeching gull, watercolour, 27 February 2015
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