Drawing Sydney in my lunchhour

I have been working at an office near Macquarie Street, Sydney for the past three weeks. I took the opportunity to go out in my lunchhour and sketch some of the historic sandstone buildings. Macquarie Street is one of Sydney’s oldest government districts with a number of heritage buildings built during the city’s early colonial years.

The weather has been the warmist May in many years, so it has been lovely to sit in the sunshine and sketch with my watercolour pencils.It is little capture of the buildings. I made a conscious decision to draw the buildings and not include the busy street life and am pleased with the result.

I usually spent about half an hour on each sketch .

I sketch with watercolour pencils in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook