USK SYD 7 September - BCN Debrief!

This month we will combine our usual sketching event with an informal 'debrief' from the three of us that attended this year's International USK Symposium in Barcelona. We will give a brief run through the workshops we attended, what tips we picked up and some general comments…in short it was amazing!!!!

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Meet at Botanic Gardens Kiosk at 9.30am.  If a nice day we will head to the nearby band  lawn area where  Alissa Duke, Chris Haldane and Liz Steel will share their thoughts and experiences from the USK symposium in Barcelona that they attended in July. 
Afterwards we will sketch in the gardens till 12.30 or beyond.

If raining we will try to make do inside the kiosk (hopefully at 9.30 it will not be too busy) or try to grab one of the pavilions.

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Please RSVP if you plan to attend so we have an idea of numbers.

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And yes, I know it is election day so don't forget to vote before or after!

Sub-urban sketching

pardon the pun... but I am just starting a new series on my  Architecture blog that involves sketching 'boring' suburban buildings and explaining some fundamental approaches to sketching architecture. More here

Also, I am going to be running a 1 day workshop of Sketching Architecture in Melbourne on Saturday 14 Sept - there are only a few places still available. More details here

The Lightship Carpentaria

Just realised I forgot to post my sketch from the National Maritime Museum a couple of weeks ago. I love this ship. It is a lightship. Trivia: a lightship's birthday is the anniversary of the day the light was first turned on. This one was on duty on the Queensland coast for many years, and now is at Darling Harbour. It is the brightest of bright vermilions. It is one of those things I like to draw at least once a year. My waterbrush was playing up and flooding the paper at times. A warning to me to take a new one on my travels.
I drew this back in 2010, as seen here, with the light falling on it in different ways.  Then I turned one of the sketches into a solar plate etching which (so far) I have printed in two different colours.

I am always happy to draw this little ship. It has such a strange barrel-like shape that it is always a challenge.