Occasionally Auckland Sketchbook escapes the city to somewhere interesting — and close. This time the sketchbook got a workout in The Bay of Islands . Only 3.5 hours by car and a world away from work. The sketch above was made in down-town Paihia, it doesn't look it, but it is literally behind the main street. The view is the back of an old homestead called Williams House . I was attracted by the orchard of very old fig trees on the left that had me imagining eating juicy ripe figs. Sadly they weren't in season but it must be a fun place at harvest time. Right over the other side of the bay you will find his falling down old house on Matauwhi Bay. For a while there the water had a turquoise glow until the sun went into hiding. This is Pompallier House and Clendon Cottage in Russell sketched with my back to the sea. I may have used a little too much artistic licence in moving them close enough together to fit on my page so don't look too closely. Anyway, I have sketched Po...
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Welcome to the Urban Sketchers Symposium 2015 headquarters. This is the Singapore Design Centre – the worldwide epicenter of all things sketchy for the next 4 days! I decided to start the day by sketching the venue and it's neighbour before the 10.30 instructors meeting.
Welcome to the Urban Sketchers Symposium 2015 headquarters. This is the Singapore Design Centre – the worldwide epicenter of all things sketchy for the next 4 days! I decided to start the day by sketching the venue and it's neighbour before the 10.30 instructors meeting.
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| The National Design Centre - center of the world for the next few days |
The design centre is a renovated art deco building which once housed the
St Anthonys Convent and is situated right next door to the St
Joseph's church. I got a quick sketch of it in before the morning
briefing.
The
Singapore organisers seem to be an incredibly well organised unit and
it's clear they've done a lot of work. I enjoyed the early morning
instructors briefing - a briefing to some of my all time favourite
sketchers - some of which I hadn't even met yet. The day has been a
steady stream of sketching and meeting familiar and new faces, then
sketching again and meeting more! Lunch turned into a sketch off...
Later
on it was registration time. Something like 300+ sketchers from all
around the world filtered through to collect their symposium guides and
goody bags before heading off for casual sketchcrawl - the perfect way
to warm up for the next few days activities.
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| Kiah Kiean, Marc Taro Holmes and James Richards get amongst it in Purvis Street |
I took the Purvis Street sketchcrawl group. Sketchers everywhere I've never sketched with so many people before!
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| More sketchers on Purvis Street |
Then
back to the design centre for the introduction. I tried to capture the
organisers as they worked to explain proceedings to a captive
audience...
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| Design Centre Reception |
See you tomorrow, I'll be back with more.
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