This weeks blog explores the sketches in my Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook over the last week. They show the variety of styles I have and also when I make and take the opportunities to sketch.

MONDAY AM

I sometimes sketch on my walk to work, usually in the Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, which are about halfway to work. I usually stop around the same area, for about 10 minutes, sketching the ducks or trees or pond. I say hello to the ducks and start the day grounded and relaxed.

MONDAY PM

I was meeting someone after work at Federation Square, in Melbourne city. They texted to say they would be half an hour late. So I sketched to fill in time. I sketched lots of other people waiting and chatting. I was meeting with someone who has a similar medical condition to what I had in 2011 and is going for surgery soon and wanted to speak to someone. I sketched through illness and surgery in 2011 and these sketchbooks can be seen here as well as my discussion on Artists’ Journal Workshop blog  . The meeting reminded me of the importance of drawing and sketch journals in my life as a form of healing and also recording an event.

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY NIGHTS

I am practicing drawing objects in similar groups. In this case – nature. This butterfly and eggs have a similar colour, the feathers are similar and the twig is from nature. Adding the label, makes them seem like a collection. All have a similar tone and softness.

THURSDAY AM

Melbourne. a wet morning today in Hardware Lane for the Legal Laneway Breakfast for the Opening of the Legal Year. Umbrellas everywhere.speeches were kept short. wet paper,wet ink.wet me. Sketched after the official event from across the Lane , under shelter.
The annual Legal Laneway Breakfast brings together Victoria’s diverse legal sector to celebrate the start of the legal year. It was celebrated in church services on Monday and this morning was an event jam packed full of legal professionals enjoying a casual breakfast and a cup of coffee all in the name of raising money for a good cause – all under umbrellas

THURSDAY PM

On the tram. Really quick sketches.

SATURDAY

I was walking down Johnstone Street in Fitzroy and saw this graffiti wall (legal) and service station and old buildings behind. I thought I will quickly sketch this, but I was probably there about 1/2 hour. I could have stayed longer, but the page was beginning to get muddy with colour. I think that I tried to focus on so many interesting focus points here, but I am pleased that I stopped by.

My final sketches were done in front of the television (while teaching myself Photoshop) . The Bathurst 12 Hour race was on and these are a few quick sketches off the screen

As you can see, many of my sketches are unplanned and I also spend time in the evening on my drawings. Each one is good practice and enjoyable. I will  be continuing to practice my  collections of objects and then using Photoshop to move images around.

I wonder what my unplanned sketches will  be this week……