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 know I've been boring you with lots of car sketches lately but here we go again — sorry. This time it's the Ellerslie Intermarque Concours and Classic Car Show Incorporated I think it's called officially.
The display was impressive. I haven't been for a decade or so, so I was
surprised. I wanted to draw as much as I could, so I only coloured one
on site, basically just bashing out the line work and moving on quickly
to the next one.
Here's a good example of an interesting car – a 1904 Darracq.
The Holden club had a really cool display. I like what they'd done with the Day at the Races theme, even down to the black tape on the headlights - in the fashion of racers back in the day. An FJ, an EH, an HT Monaro and a Torana GTR XU-1 in metallic purple of course.
It was hard to walk past this Mini Cooper. A genuine cooper updated to a faithful replica of 977 ARX which placed 3rd in the 1963 Monte Carlo Rally, complete with spare wheels on the roof rack.
This is just some of them – there's more to come in a following post. There were plenty I would have loved to have drawn, like the one off 1938 6C 2300B Alfa Romeo — wow!
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