Sketching at the Queen Victoria markets in Melbourne was organised by Amy Diana of Nature Journal Club. It had been a night and morning of intense rain, which cleared up in the city by the time we met. It may have kept some sketchers at home, but also marketgoers. That meant that it was relatively quiet. Lthere were lots of locals doing their shopping and tourists too.

The idea was to look at the fruit and vegetable stands in one section and choose a few items to bring back to a shared table to sketch. We made our selections in 30 minutes and then 2 hours sketching, chatting, and drinking coffee. You can see our table layout above (thanks Amy for taking the great photo). Raw vegetables are a great nature sketch subject. They stay still and you can observe closely, move them around, or cut them open ti investigate further.

These were all sketched on location, except for the peas.

All in watercolour pencil of course. I had planned to complete them at home, or add a bit more, but ran out of time and focus. I have moved on to other projects.

However I did purchase some quail eggs to sketch later and keep the eggs once used.