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...
I spent a sunny hour and a half on Poynton Street (by the fire station) drawing Charles Williams, aka Phat 1, working on this piece on the facade of an art deco apartment. If you've ever seen Charles' work you'll recognise his signature style of enormous luxuriously painted (sprayed) native birds like this Tieke/Stitchbird. The bird's song is represented by a colourful floral design by Lady Diva that wafts up the street towards Pitt Street bringing the whole street to life.
The tiny figures seen on a cherry picker off to the left are Misery and Tomtom flat-out on an enormous piece growing up the wall of a lift shaft. If you're Monday morning commute takes you around the streets of K-rd your morning will be that bit more colourful.
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