Showing posts with label Sydenham Station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sydenham Station. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

2012 Sketchbook

As mentioned in a previous entry I completed my first Urban Sketches book end of 2011. Well, I am happy to say I have made a good start on my new sketchbook. My theme is Scenes From A Bus Stop. Most will still be of Marrickville and the surrounding inner-city suburbs, but as I catch public transport quite regularly, there will be the odd other location in Sydney as well. I'm still sticking with the artline pen and waterbrush pen combination, as I quite like it. I've also decided to "square off" the scenes too. It keeps each page scene and looks neater.

I had to draw this Newtown scene over two days. The first day my bus came quite promptly, which is unusual for this route (370 - I'm always waiting forever). So I came back the second time as part of my exercise/walk. However, the second time was so much busier with so many cars and people it made me a little frenetic in my actions trying to finish the drawing at the same pace.
This was the return trip on the 370, and is what I'm use to, I had plenty of time to finish this sketch. I think these are fire hydrants.


Monday, March 21, 2011

Sketching around Marrickville






When Liz asked me to contribute to Urban Sketchers Sydney I decided to narrow my subject matter down to where I live. It's always been a colourful suburb with a huge cross-section of nationalities, sub-cultures etc. It is ALWAYS evolving. Plus it makes it easier to fit a couple of drawings into my daily routine of buying groceries and going for walks. If you would like to see all the double pages in full [only the text entries are missing here] click on my name in the contributors list. Cheers!