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.
A marina in San Francisco on a lovely day.
Alcatraz Island is seen in the background.
Watery Wednesday : please click the link for more posts.
Changing direction slightly… here’s a yummy breakfast I had the other day. Delicious yet simple to make – fresh figs, walnuts and mascarpone cheese on top of toasted chunky bread, drizzled with honey.
Dinner one night was pulled pork in a roll, with coleslaw on the side. It was very enjoyable but strongly flavoured. All my taste buds were stimulated!
Bought the pull pork roll from this shop – I love the funky decor.
Lastly, have you tried Vietnamese coffee?
In the above photo, a metal container sits on top of a sieve, which are both placed on top of a glass on the left. Grounded coffee is placed in the metal container, and hot water is poured over the top. The coffee slowly drips into the glass which has sweetened condensed milk. When all the coffee has dripped into the glass, give it a stir, and it’s ready. It’s different from the usual regular coffee or lattes, but extremely delicious.
This artist was sketching outside a coffee shop right in front of us – perfect for me, since I thought that he was going to be there for a while. But he was just finishing up, or maybe he didn’t want me to sketch him, and left quite quickly. If it was the latter, I’m sorry, Mr Artist, to have been a nuisance. I love your beret, by the way.
We took a little trip from San Francisco to San Diego again. Many flights (including ours) were delayed… So there was more sketching time. Airports are good for people sketches I think. This guy stayed in the same position for quite long.
I enjoyed sketching this man. He was obviously very tired, and had a little snooze while waiting.
Sketching at lunch in Sausalito, which is located north of San Francisco. We went there on a ferry, and had a lovely afternoon. Photos later!
Have a nice week.
Staircases outside of apartment buildings always remind me of the US. In fact, I have not seen them anywhere else. I love them, as well as the many old buildings that I see in San Francisco. Our rented unit in San Francisco is in an street where there are many old buildings. This is a building across the road.
The origami crane reminds me of my Mom. When I was little (maybe about 5 years old), she taught me how to turn a flat piece of paper into a lovely 3 dimensional bird.
I visited the San Francisco Botanical Garden some weeks ago. I hope that you will enjoy these photos.
I brought my sketchbook to draw. But I did not get around to drawing. I was having too much fun taking photos.
The shapes and the different shades of green makes the leaves interesting.
Love the stone lantern – wish I could have one when I have a garden.
I am not sure what this squirrel was looking at.
Can you read my writing?
If not, scroll down, I have enlarged the speech/thought bubbles below.
A true encounter during the day, on a street where there were other people… so it wasn’t scary, but still a rather strange incident.
When I saw a carousel, I was transported back to my childhood. I just had to stop to paint this.
I love the details of this building…
One of the piers along the Embarcadero
A 25 feet sculpture in San Diego.
If you were kissed by a total stranger - a sailor in this case – in the midst of a momentous celebration, what would you do? Read about it here.
I saw a few couples in the same pose, kissing in front of the statue, while being photographed.
I drew this while sitting on the green grass under a tree.
It seemed like a very popular sculpture. A few people were curious and came to have a look at my drawing, and to chat. Someone took a photo of my hand drawing…
Half an hour later, and 500 feet away, someone approached me. He said he saw me drawing the statue, and was curious how it turned out on paper. I showed him. He smiled, and nodded. I think he approved.
Coolness…. some people look nice no matter what they wear.
I had to complete this before we landed. A rush job, but it still took me about an hour. I guess it was a good way to spend time during a flight.
The kitchen of our rented unit. The colours are not actually these, but all white. I decided to have some fun.
