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.
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.
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 use public transport a lot in San Francisco. It’s convenient, and an inexpensive way to get around.
This is the Ferry Building in San Francisco, which I go to quite a bit. It has a lots of yummy food, and on weekends, a farmers’ market.
While travelling, we were staying at the same hotel for a while, and the hotel breakfast was becoming boring. So I decided to have some fun – it made breakfast pass quickly, but the food still tasted the same…
2 sketches; I was using a concertina sketchbook hence the sketches sort-of got squashed into any available space…
The top left is a drawing by the pool. And the bottom, which I enjoyed more, a scaffolding and tube (don’t know the right term) for building materials…
There is something about drawing and painting plants that I find appealing
Plants with bags of soil by the side
Finally, some potted plants.
Sushi with salmon, tuna and avocado - 美味しいです (delicious). I don’t think I can ever get enough of Japanese food.
Another 2 pairs… I made these up based on a black black pair that I own :)
More photos taken in Tai O Village on Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
Sea and mountain views… We couldn’t ask for more.
Inspired by colourful buildings in the village.
A structure on stilt.
Looking down at Tai O Village from a hill.
A few old houses have interesting roofs.
Sketching in a taxi… It was a risk because I get motion sickness when I read in a car, so I drew quickly. I wasn’t feeling too good afterwards, but only for a little while. I painted it at home.
Sketches completed while my husband was getting a massage.
I was quite excited when I saw this cinema in Beijing. I haven’t seen one like this in a long time.
Doodling while having my breakfast in a bakery.
