I have been travelling interstate over the past few weeks, catching up with friends, family and sketchers. I had not seen some of these people for a year or more. Some visits were two days and others five days. On the longer visits, I was able to be a tourist in Brisbane and Sydney. I have filled many pages of my sketchbook and am now slowly catching up with scanning them.

This blog post has a skyline sketch of Brisbane and Sydney, as well as sketches which I completed while travelling on their ferries.

Brisbane

Some sketches were completed on the City Cat ferry ride.

Others were while the ferry was moving or when it stopped to drop off and collect passengers.

This is a combination of both.

Sydney

A combination of sketches on the ferry and at the wharf.

Sketch from the Sydney ferry while it stopped to drop off and picked up passengers. It was probably about three minutes.

I have many more pages of sketches from these two visits. Some of these on location sketches are very quick, while others were a bit more relaxed and leisurely. I usually do not add any more colour or detail at home.

Travel sketching with Watercolour Pencil classes coming soon

I am very excited to be planning dates for Travel Sketching with Watercolour Pencil classes for early next year. They will be on a Saturday morning in East Melbourne. I am also planning a display of some of my sketchbooks at my local East Melbourne library in the new year to coincide with the classes. I have not run a travel sketching class in a long time. The basic concepts are the name for my Royal Botanic Garden Victoria and The Johnston Collection watercolour pencil classes, but the focus is all on travel!

I will add the dates and links to the Classes tab on my website when the dates are locked-in. see you then !