An unexpected opportunity to sketch before breakfast!
I woke to find our neighbour’s moving van had arrived! They had lovingly renovated their home but the demands of a growing family necessitated a move. We will miss them. We hear the house will be torn down by new owners and a (luckily) single storey new build will go up.
I wonder when the noise and dust will begin!
#Sailorfude pen, watercolour, #MoleskineWatercolourNotebook, 8.25”x 5"(portrait).
Medical waiting room after our 5th Covid vaccination. Will this be the last?
I added this sketch of our African Violets in memory of a very old friend, Iris, who sadly passed away recently. Her favourite colour was mauve/violet. We met when she, S, J and I were living in the same dorms at university. We went our separate ways after graduating – different countries, different cities, connected only by a yearly Xmas letter over 50 plus years. We had a happy reunion with Iris and S in 2019.
The older sketches at left of the page-spread are of vegetables (silverbeet and parsley) and left over morning tea which I came home with after attending a talk for Casey U3A's Garden Club group.
#Sailorfude pen, watercolour,#Stillman&Birn Zeta Sketchbook, 7.5”x 7.5”. #Caseyu3a
Autumn views from our kitchen window. Finished this main one recently (I couldn't stop adding dots and dashes).
These other two were done almost exactly a year ago! The older ones were done with gay abandon and compromised eyesight after my first cataract operation last year. I think I like the old ones better! I couldn't see properly at the time and didn't care about the final product which resulted in freer more expressive drawings!
#Sailorfude pen, watercolour, #MoleskineWatercolourAlbum, 5x8”.
Here's a couple of photos from the launch night of the recent exhibition Community Capsule in Fed Square, Melbourne where 9 pages from my Covid Journal (now in the State Library) were displayed. The 2 photographers featured with me in the panel discussion were Julie Ewing and Bri Hammond.
To read about Julie and Bri's Covid Projects:
Julie Ewing:
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/one-year-on/across-the-fence/
Bri Hammond:
https://www.brihammond.com/isolation-portraits
and mine (just showing my favourite pages from the 80 page sketch journal):
“Wait in your car until your GP calls you”. We forget we’re still under the cloud of Covid (and now flu). Sketching Buchanan Park from the parking lot of our health provider on 2 separate occasions.
What a beautiful white gum behind the fence! There seems no vehicle entry to Buchanan Park and people are parking illegally in the medical clinic’s parking lot!
Marker pens, Handbook Journal 5.5" x 5.5".
Sketching from live TV coverage on my comfortable couch at home was better than being there! Thank you BBC!
I should have sketched scenes in the abbey when people were mostly stationary but I was too afraid to miss anything.
A page in history.
#Sailorfude pen, watercolour, #Stillman&Birn Zeta Sketchbook, 7.5”x 7.5”
