Sketching sure is my best panacea for anxiety! Sketching on location at A&E, Mulgrave Hospital.
No need for details here except to say J has recovered well after 10 stitches to his head and 10 more for his ear after an altercation with a door frame and some furniture. Just before Christmas is the best time for such shenanigans.
An injured foot is still needing the physio's attention.
#hahnemuehle soft cover sketchbook A6.
I really have been soo tardy in keeping up this blog due to one thing and another. Better late than never so here goes with a short post about our short trip to Surfers Paradise last December.
I won't go into the cancelled flight (after we had checked in), spending the night at brother-in-law's as it was too far to go home. Delays on the replacement flight the next day, our disappointment with Surfers Paradise, delays on the way back...and J coming down with a bad case of flu after we got home. He probably picked up the flu bug from sharing our flight home with a plane load of sleep deprived coughing schoolies!
Surfers Paradise is in the northern state of Queensland where tourists go for sunshine, beach and night life. 40 years since we were last there and this trip didn't make us want to go back again. Thankfully the ALS conference J attended was more successful than he expected. So from that point of view it was a trip worth making.
I'll just share my 2 favourite sketches from the trip.
Firstly, Castaways Cafe. There was a cold wind blowing (even at Surfers!) and the lunch was an uncuttable slop of a nightmare.
Macintosh Island Park was a lovely oasis, away from the high rise of Surfers Paradise. It sits on a canal from the Nerang River. Large shady trees, streams, it’s a bird sanctuary. We had peacocks walking all around us…and lots of ants! A Bush Turkey kept us company.
#sailorfude pen, watercolour, #stillman&birn Beta Sketchbook, 7.5”x 7.5”. #macintoshislandpark
