Old pen and ink sketch

An old 20 minute pen and ink sketch from a life drawing class I did, maybe last year? A2 paper. Staedler fountain pen. I dripped the ink out of the body of the pen for the hair.

Viollinist

Watercolour graphite pencils.

Sketching my husband

Sketching my husband sitting watching tv (and gradually falling asleep). Staedler 0.05 black pen, recycled paper.

Dart River valley, near Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand (photo: Jonas)

Sketch of a picnic

Sketch from a photo of a picnic. 0.05 Staedler black pen. Photocopier paper (!). 10 x 15 cm.

 Pauatahanui Inlet, north of Wellington, North Island

Some sketches of people

Sepia fineliner

Black super fine Staedler pen

Black micron pen

Black superfine Staedler pen

 Black superfine Staedler pen

Sepia fineliner

Above all done on Big Yellow bee paper (a5 sketchbook), which I am loving using.

Medium Charcoal pencil, A4 sketchbook

2B pencil (4cm x 4cm)

B pencil, A4 sketchbook

 Sunrise

Sketch: Man at the markets

 

A sketch of a man at a market on wonderful Big Yellow Bee paper. 8B pencil. This is 8B graphite pencil is different brand from the previous sketch, and I prefer the previous Staedler 8B graphite pencil.

Below: Late afternoon sun in a cafe. 0.1mm Staedler fineliner.

A beach in Northland, North Island, New Zealand (photo by Jonas)

Big Yellow Bee paper sketch: 8B pencil

8B pencil on Big Yellow Bee, Co-Mo Draw 130gsm paper (which my amazing penfriend in Portland sent me). I love this paper.

Powell River in the mist, Tararua Forest Park, North Island, New Zealand

Sketching at the Botanic Gardens

I went to the Wellington Sketchers meetup at Wellington Botanic Gardens. I decided to sketch around the gardens rather than walk down through Thorndon.

There was a brass band concert on at the Soundshell, so I sat and sketched that. Lots of people were having a picnic lunch listening to brass bands from all around the North Island. This isn't normally my thing, but it was a beautiful, sunny day and I rather enjoyed it.

While I was waiting to meet up with my family wandering around the gardens, I saw that they had put a series of art installations around the gardens. This one was where they hung clothes in amongst the trees and flower beds.

A gratuitous photo of the Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand (photo by Jonas)

Pen and pencil sketches

I did these in the evenings while my kids had a bath. My husband sorted them out while I sketched the fisherman. He's a keeper, that one.

 

A fisherman. Based on a photo in the book ¨Coast¨.  0.1 Staedler black pen. A5 paper.

 

 Sketch from life: bloke watching tv... Conte Pierre Noire pencil. 10x14ishcm.

A beach in Northland, New Zealand (photo by Jonas)

Mail art: Gossips

I did some mail art sketches about 1950's gossiping women:

The front:

The address goes in the bottom right hand corner.

The back:

The sender's address goes in the bottom right hand corner.

Worldwide Sketchcrawl #42 Wellington

I went to the Wellington Sketchers meetup for the 42nd Worldwide Sketchcrawl. After a pretty mixed bag of weather this summer, we were really lucky to have a wonderful warm summer's day.

We sketched around the marina and the boat sheds next to the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club.

I did a panoramic sketch for the first time. It was the nearby Ocean Sports Open Day today and we saw people learning to kayak, windsurf, and standup paddleboard.

 This is the Monastery on the hill behind Oriental Parade.

This is a fellow sketcher sketching, although I have to say my sketch looks nothign like him!

We moved down to the boat sheds and this is the view looking east along the waterfront. There were quite a few people using their boat shed and going out sailing.

As I waited for my husband to pick me up, I managed one last sketch. I saw this staircase just before the meetup and wanted to sketch it, but didn't quite have the courage to stand beside the road and do it. But I felt fine doing that after the meetup. Wellington has lots of secret, steep staircases like these, joining various roads along the hillsides.

I did them all on one page as I am planning to bind them in a book format.

We had a great day and it was really fun to sketch with everyone again, especially since we knew people all over the world were doing the same today.

New Year arrivals

Wow - I got sent these amazing art supplies by the best penpal ever (you know who you are!).

I had to try the sepia Prismacolor pencils straight away. They are amazing to use. I am definitely a convert to these. I love the Big Yellow Bee paper too.

 

Plus a bit more practice drawing hands:
 

 

Sketching with the common biro

Some more quick biro sketches, done while having a cup of tea this afternoon.

I squeezed this into a space in an old sketchbook and it went over the top of another sketch (upside down).

An unrelated photo of the entry to the Marlborough Sounds, NZ

Rainy day sketches

I went to the Wellington Sketchers meetup yesterday, and due to the horrible weather forecast, there was unsuprisingly only two of us. A couple of times it looked like it would clear up, but then the wind whipped up and it started raining again.

We started out in the Mojo cafe, waited by the meetup place for any other sketchers, and tried sketching near the path up to the Beehive. However, the wind and rain drove us indoors again and we ended up sitting in a nearby MacDonalds which had a good view of the station and the street.

Even though the weather was awful, it was lovely meeting Lim Su Min from the Singapore Urban Sketchers, and also to have a chance to draw just sit and draw people. I've wanted to draw people moving in Wellington's iconic wind, for some time, but have never had the opportunity.  

Above and below: the view from McDonalds.