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!
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.
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.
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.
One of the items that came with our rented apartment.
Not sure why I painted it…
This is making me think of juicy steak, and I am getting hungry…
I brought my iPAD to breakfast this morning. While waiting for a table, I quickly sketched a man in front of me.
It was getting addictive… I sketched Jeremy at home, on the iPAD. He doesn’t like many of my pieces of him, but he likes this :).
I was given a 2nd hand iPad recently, when my husband bought himself a new one. I have been painting – it’s a lot of fun, and it’s clean! I have forgotten how much fun it is to paint digitally. The downside is that I have to watch my posture, to avoid getting a sore back.
This is my submission to Illustration Friday’s theme “Spooky”.
The text is extracted from a quote by Mary Shelley in her work, Frankenstein. Click on the link if you are interested in spooky quotes :).
Are you familiar with Simpkins Travel Sweets?
I saw some at the shops the other day. They brought me down memory lane. When I was growing in Malaysia, my grandma bought and shared them with us. It was a novelty – we didn’t buy many imported goods. We didn’t have much money to spare so it was a real treat. I had a warm fuzzy feeling seeing the sweets and remembering grandma, and I ended up buying a tin of sweets for myself.
Drawing for submission to Illustration Friday, with the theme “dessert”.
This drawing is 4 years old. Besides yummy chocolate, the shop sold waffles with chocolate sauce. plus lots of chocolate desserts. My husband and I had their waffles a few times for breakfast – a very nice way to start our weekends. It also had a very nice atmosphere… Unfortunately, the shop is now closed.
I usually buy desserts to draw, but having some choc biscuits in the pantry saved me a trip to the shop. I love drawing desserts and biscuits, but this means that I am consuming lots of calories (that I don’t need). But I can’t see any other way…
Anyway, hope you enjoy this.
My husband bought me a delicious cupcake a few days ago. It wasn’t so tall but wouldn’t it be wonderful to have one just like that (or even taller) coated with lovely chocolate sauce?
Life in cupcake heaven would be filled with chocolate sauce and marshmallows daily. On the other hand, it would also be filled with energetic people on sugar overdose (not sure if that’s a good thing)…
This was my afternoon tea. Managed to draw it, but I was getting really hungry looking at it. Hope you are having a nice weekend.
Digital piece completed with Corel Painter.
Muffin with almond slices and icing sugar dusting... It had fruit inside, but we couldn’t taste what it was. Never mind, it was sweet and delicious.
Today I felt like drawing something yummy, so I went to a bakery. I found a hazelnut dessert and a chocolate éclair, which pleased my husband enormously. But he had to wait till I finished my drawings before we could eat them… The tasted pretty good.
ps. both drawings were completed digitally using Corel Painter.
Happy Weekend.
