Flinders St Station in Melbourne, Australia
A fellow traveller on the plane
A couple of pieces for Paint Party Friday.
More homemade breakfast toast. Crunchy pear slices, walnuts and mascarpone cheese on toast, drizzled with honey. Yes, another version of the earlier ones (with strawberries and figs).
Homemade again, but on a different day! Sausage and butter beans baked in tomato sauce, with poached egg on toast
At the cafe…We love our coffee here in Melbourne, Australia.
Continuing from my previous post (click here for more info about the project), this is my 2nd drawing on photographs.
I have returned home from my travels. This is not a recent photo, but one from my collection, of my neighbourhood in Melbourne, Australia.
I am starting a project with a collection of drawings on photographs, which will end up in a sketchbook. I know it sounds a bit odd, because sketchbooks are usually empty. There will be lots of blank pages to sketch on too, and maybe one in 5 pages will be a printed page of my drawing.
There will be 10 drawings, which are to be completed within 5 weeks. Check back mid-week, and weekend for new works!
This first drawing is inspired by the movie “Real Steel”, which I saw a few days ago (click on the link to see the trailer). It’s not a movie with a lot of depth, but I loved it, and now I want my own robot.
The theme for this week’s Illustration Friday is contraption. How timely.
Man taking a snooze on a plane. He seemed pretty comfortable.
It’s Friday again? Where has the week gone! Paint Party Friday is back again. Hope you had a nice and creative week.
If you are an art enthusiast, hopefully you might appreciate this photo of Pollock’s work (with a woman taking her time studying it) taken at MOMA in New York
Times Square, New York
On my last day in New York, my lobster breakfast – a special treat!
I spent a lot of time sitting on the beach with my art materials. It is a beautiful place, and the weather was perfect. I had some nice conversations with a few people who stopped to chat.
This is my Watery Wednesday submission – check out the link for more watery posts.
This little guy have learnt that humans are non-threatening. It rummaged through my plastic bag of art materials… it must have been hungry.
There are many seals who live around here. It was easy to spot them on the beach, or swimming in the sea, but we were not allowed to get close.
An interesting sculpture on top of the Contemporary Museum of Art, which is located along the beach
It was closed when I was there, but I could walk around the sculpture garden.
My first submissions to Paint Party Friday. The top one shows a small section of a church, and the bottom one was drawn on a sunny day by the water. Both were completed in San Francisco.
For Weekend Reflections, let’s go to New York. I caught with some friends over dinner, and they took me Queens so that we could look at the Manhattan skyline from there. The above structure is in Queens, and my friends said most people point their cameras in the opposite direction…. see next 2 photos.
And a bridge for Sunday Bridges. The photos are not exactly sharp since I only had my point and shoot with me then., but I like them anyway. Hope you are not getting crossed-eyed!
The view was breathtaking, but my photos are not very good. I hope you enjoy them anyway.
Today, I tried to make it. I had to alter it a little, since I could find neither thick chunky bread nor figs.
My version (top photo) is fresh strawberries and walnut on mascarpone cheese on toasted bread, drizzled with honey.
My husband and I enjoyed it, but we both agree that it would be better with chunky bread on a griddle with olive oil, rather than toasted slices.
Oh, by the way, if you do try it, use lots of mascarpone cheese and honey! And I’d love to hear about what you think if you do try it.
