[by Peter Rush in Sydney, Australia] Here’s a post just to show how I typically sketch. I was in the city centre of Sydney and came across this view that looked deep into Hunter St. The only paper I had left was an old backing sheet, pretty dirty. I knew it wouldn’t matter and all […]
[By Matt Jones in Melbourne] I recently had the chance to visit Melbourne to teach storyboarding to the animation community there. I managed to explore a bit and do some sketching while exploring this marvellous city. The iconic Flinders Street Station The Forum music venue St. Paul’s CBD and Prince’s Bridge from the South Bank […]
[Guest post by Chris Haldane in Australia] I’m about to leave home and visit another far-flung part of Australia – Broome in Western Australia – and it has made me look back at my journal from my first visit to the Outback at the end of last year, when I had the chance to visit […]
[by Mario Luz, Christchurch, NZ] We had only seen it from the sky and had stopped there a few times “on transit” to New Zealand, but this time we finally went to visit Australia, I mean Victoria and New South Wales coast. We first landed in Melbourne and spent a few days enjoying this very […]
April 2 and April 9: Sketch in the City-Station Series, with Mike Kowalski in Melbourne Australia Sketch in the City-Station Series: Two day class. April 2 and April 9, 2016 Workshop Description: Melbourne’s suburbs are rich with distinct personalities. Each class will focus on one station and it’s surrounds. As sketchers we will attempt to […]
[ By Peter Rush in Sydney, Australia ] Sketching Enmore Rd, our local main street. Working hard! My neighbour and friend Victoria asked me this week if her daughter Emily could copy one of my drawings, for a school art assignment. The students were required to choose a landscape painting from an Australian artist and […]
by Liz Steel, Sydney Australia My December has been so busy putting together a 7 part series on my blog about all using fountain pens for sketching, that I have hardly had a chance to do any sketching with my fountain pens! It certainly hasn’t felt like Christmas, which here in Australia means summer holidays. […]
My first trip to Australia was in 2007, and it was a trip to Brisbane, Queensland. It was a fun trip but I wasn’t able to remember much because back then I hadn’t started sketching yet. Ever since I started sketching, I would always bring a sketchbook along for my trips. Sketching made the trips […]
By Peter Rush in Sydney, Australia Very rarely I drive my son to his violin lesson in Coogee, a seaside suburb. Rather than sit through the lesson, I take off down the street to find something to sketch. I have one hour. Even with such hideous flats and the usual Sydney mess of ugly roads […]
As an architect I do a lot of drafting, that is floor plans, elevations, sections and construction details. It does include perspectives, and lots of rough sketches, investigations to find the right solution. It’s time consuming work and it is all about producing a correct accurate set of plans to construct a building. Once the […]
Guest post by Chris Haldane in Sydney. Since the beginning of 2014, I’ve been really interested in documenting the huge 22 hectare Barangaroo development which is changing the face of Sydney’s central business district. It is named after an important indigenous woman of colonial New South Wales who was also the wife of Bennelong, after […]
Interview by Murray Dewhurst. I’ve enjoyed your sketches on Flickr now for some time, they stand out with your distinctive style, characterised by strong hatching, can you tell us a bit about how your style developed? The Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra As a boy I loved Marvel comics, I read the British black and white reprints […]
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