Welcome to the blog. On the this site you will find recent sketches right through to truely terrible sketches made on location over 20 years ago. Looking back at those sketches I sometimes wonder why I even continued with the practice! So why do I sketch? Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Alon...
Waipapa Marae, Auckland
The marae at Auckland University carved by legendary tohunga whakairo Pākariki Harrison.
The sketch doesn't start to do the subject justice - there is so much detail - something you don't appreciate until you sit down and try to capture it all on paper! I must go back with more time and do a more detailed study.
Check out a bit of background on Waipapa Marae here...
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/departments-and-schools/maori-studies/waipapa-marae
and here...
http://gallery.arts.auckland.ac.nz/ies/ies_005/Waipapa+Marae+1+University+of+Auckland.jpg.html
The marae at Auckland University carved by legendary tohunga whakairo Pākariki Harrison.
The sketch doesn't start to do the subject justice - there is so much detail - something you don't appreciate until you sit down and try to capture it all on paper! I must go back with more time and do a more detailed study.
Check out a bit of background on Waipapa Marae here...
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/departments-and-schools/maori-studies/waipapa-marae
and here...
http://gallery.arts.auckland.ac.nz/ies/ies_005/Waipapa+Marae+1+University+of+Auckland.jpg.html
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