I thought I had better sketch my Christmas flowers before they were past their best. They are Christmas Bush (Ceratopetalum gummiferum) and Red Flowering gum (Corymbia ficifolia). The flowering gum is allready dropping it’s stamens at an alarming, though beautiful, rate.
Relaxing and sketching on Boxing Day.
Before the lunchtime devastation!
Here are some more sketches from my current cafe sketching booklet. I am currently putting in some more backgrounds rather than letting my people float on the blank page. Some work better than others.
The red bottle, 1 December 2018, watercolour and graphite.
Woman under an umbrella, 3 December 2018, watercolour and graphite.
Mother with her two sons, 5 December 2018, watercolour and graphite.
Two women with a pot of orchids, 11 December 2018, watercolour and graphite.
More sketching today. I was pretty pleased with my first sketch of a young woman with red hair rocking a 1960’s vibe.
Red-headed woman.
For those of you who were asking about my sketching kit, you can see it in this second photo.
Cafe sketches and sketch kit.
What used to be Cafe Wednesday has, with a slight drifting of routines, now become Cafe Friday. At present I am carrying a small booklet made from an A3 page of Fabriano watercolour paper, which I stitch together and fold into an old bank bookholder (those were the days!). In the holder I also carry some home made paint dot cards and the obligatory coffee loyalty card.
I made two sketches today to fill up this current booklet, which also includes several pages from my recent trip to Taiwan (more of that later).
A Strawberry Lamington at the Palace Museum in Taipei.
Sketching and drinking coffee at Fu Coffee in Taipei.
Drinking iced coffee and scoffing marscapone and raisin icecream at The Fourth Credit Corporation in Taichung (a very hip repurposed bank building).
In September I had a two week run at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space in Manuka, showing work that had developed from my residency in Tokyo two years ago. In between visitors (good numbers of people walking in from the street), I managed several sketches from behind the desk.
The view from the desk, including the gallery on the right and the view out the door on the left.
A more detailed view of what I could see out the doors of the gallery.
The spring blossom across the road attracted many passing photographs.
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