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...
...printed large that is. Remember a few months back we sketched in Avondale as guests of the Whau Arts Festival (see here)? Well thanks to Whau the People our sketches have now been enlarged substantially and mounted and are on display in the old 3Guys site. They look surprisingly good enlarged!
Here are a selection of them below (my ones are on the grey paper) and they'll be on display until the end of December. Check them out if you're in the area, they're in a car park so you can even drive around them!
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| Jana Hoffman's pages |
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| Eric Ngan's sketch on the left – who's that is on the right? |
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| Jackson Wong's sketch of the racecourse |
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| Jane Grimond's sketch |
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| Shailee Adke's sketch on the left |
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