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...
An old friend was about to have a major birthday celebration (you know who you are you old bugger!).
As is customary for me in these situations – I drew a complete blank when it came to deciding on what gift to give!
Miraculously, inspiration finally came. I'd give him a sketch I'd done a few years back of his surf ski, sitting on their family Land Rover, up at Pataua. Good idea, eh, but the sketch is bound in a sketchbook right, and I only had a week!
I did a quick high resolution scan and emailed it to Endemic World in Ponsonby Road. They printed it at A3 size for me using archival inks on acid free watercolour paper, matted and framed it in a raw oak frame - all in a week – fantastic service!
Some snaps of it below or check out the original sketch original post here.
As is customary for me in these situations – I drew a complete blank when it came to deciding on what gift to give!
Miraculously, inspiration finally came. I'd give him a sketch I'd done a few years back of his surf ski, sitting on their family Land Rover, up at Pataua. Good idea, eh, but the sketch is bound in a sketchbook right, and I only had a week!
I did a quick high resolution scan and emailed it to Endemic World in Ponsonby Road. They printed it at A3 size for me using archival inks on acid free watercolour paper, matted and framed it in a raw oak frame - all in a week – fantastic service!
Some snaps of it below or check out the original sketch original post here.
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