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Veedubs and villas in Northcote Point

I’m sti ll experimenting with a different approach to ‘sketching’. Am I sketching or am I painting? Sometimes I can't tell, and why can’t it be both? I’m constantly fighting the urge to pick up a fineliner and noodle away on some linework — I guess it would definitely be a sketch then! Absolutely enjoying not getting 'stuck in the weeds' of line to concentrate on shapes and values instead (progress on values is slow - it’s hard!). It’s an interesting challenge anyway. I’ve had my eye on this mint 2 tone Volkswagen in Northcote for quite a while.  I like how the owners park it on the street some days so other people can enjoy it. You might even see it from the harbour bridge - but you definitely have to be a passenger for that - don’t even think about it if you’re driving! I planned to sketch it up close, a front 3/4 view as usual, but realised I’d have to sit in the street to do that. Instead I decided to do the whole street. I was attracted to the contrast created by those...

Heavenly crumbling masonry and rusty ironwork at Waikumete Cemetery

Melbourne. It's all about colour.

Whanganui weekend

Nothing beats a swim and sketch on the same day

Bluff Hill, an alternative view

Kerala Sketchbook now available

Drawn over an art deco parapet

Auckland's sketchable alleyways

Featured in Classic Driver Magazine

Hardy sketchers weather Twin Oak Drive

Copies of my Kerala Sketchbook now available

The trees that frame our city

Wallace and Gromit's car alive and well in suburban Auckland

Josca Bike Repair – flashback

Bush escape in the ‘burbs

A first for Queen Anne in Auckland

'A big splash in Auckland' — my article for On the Spot

What would you draw at the Brit & Euro Classic Car Show?