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...
The results from this month's Big Draw on a chilly mid winter Saturday afternoon.
We sketched a steady stream of well wrapped tourists in Queen's Arcade,
near the bottom of Queen Street. Plenty of scarves, heavy coats, fur hoodies
and even a decidedly thermal looking orange turban...
near the bottom of Queen Street. Plenty of scarves, heavy coats, fur hoodies
and even a decidedly thermal looking orange turban...
Then we headed down to the waterfront to draw this view of the harbour - one of those views you've always wanted to take a crack at only to find there's so much to take in you couldn't possibly fit it all on one page. Here's Eric with his sketch, he managed to capture the scale of the view really well...
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