Why sketch?

posted by Murray Dewhurst on
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. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
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Sealegs at the 'Auckland on Water Boat Show'

posted by Murray Dewhurst on
I didn't actually go to the boat show in Viaduct Harbour this weekend. But there are a bunch of these guys outside. I've seen them in action and they're pretty clever machines. I liked their floating logo too - each letter bobbing around individually. This one's decked out in a fetching camouflage paint job - ideal for the hunter who doesn't like to get his feet wet. I reckon a mai mai strapped to the top would be even better though.

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