Waiting

In the last two years, sketching while waiting during everyday activities has become the norm as dedicated on-location Urban Sketching opportunities become harder to attend. 

Here's a school girl waiting to be picked up after a MIGHTY thunderstorm this afternoon. No wonder there was a thunderstorm asthma warning for today! Only box-top buildings in this new area called Officer on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne. There's still some undeveloped empty land close by but I'm sure that will change very soon. Sketched this through the glass doorway while waiting for my spouse.

You get to a certain age and medical clinics become your second home. This was my first free (old people's) government provided annual health assessment. Thankfully I passed but I was taken aback that it was so lengthy! This sketch was done in 2 time slots while waiting, firstly to see the clinic nurse and then later the GP.

Marker, pen and ink. #HandbookJournal 5.5" x 5.5".

Bunnings Re-visited

Here I was drawing from the same medical clinic as I was a year ago.

Last time I was waiting while my spouse had his appointment with the eye specialist. This time it's to see about a cataract procedure. Not much has changed, looking down on the ugly side of a branch of Bunnings (a household hardware company). That's a pond in the foreground but this time the ducks were absent.

In the sketch below done year ago, we were still in the grip of Covid, hence the large bottle of sanitizer on the window sill.

Markers #HandbookJournal 5.5" x 5.5".