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...
I'm enjoying using the thick Posca pens in the Grey Book - limiting tools to just two thick markers really speeds up your sketching - with the building taking maybe 20 minutes to complete.
A quick lunch sketch on Federal Street of what must be the last old resident. Looking a little out of place next to new architecture including the Sky Tower along a little further.
And on the left a rendering experiment of a moulded plaster 'modillion' that I picked up in Buenos Aires years ago.
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