I am very happy and excited to be involved with a project at my local library: the East Melbourne Community Seed Library project. It is part of a work in progress to establish a free seed library at East Melbourne Library. What is a seed library? The East Melbourne Community Seed Library aims to build […]
A few sketches this week. A wonderful on location event to sketch at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library for Melbourne Rare Book Week. The inaugural Gary Morgan Oration by Andrew May on Mwelbourne Inc “Little laws and the shaping of a frontier town.” some sketches from the week. Some quick sketches in ink only. Others are […]
I was not able to make it to last weekend’s BIG Chinese New Year in Chinatown in Melbourne. Melbourne Urban Sketchers had a meetup there. But I did get my own local CNY Lion Dance at East Melbourne Library. I have sketched the Lion Dance a few times over the years and I know that […]
2024 is turning out to be a busy year,.with the calendar filling up already. Melbourne Athenaeum Library – Artist in Residence I have been awarded an Artist in Residence at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library for 2024, An Artist in Residence can take on many forms. In this case, I am providing a drawing a […]
I write a blog post at this time each year looking back at what I have done during the previous year with my art. I have found this is a very useful way of realising how much I have accomplished in a year, as I usually forget about some events or do not realise how […]
On Saturday I held my ‘Travel sketching with watercolour pencil class’ in Melbourne. We had wonderful weather. After an initial start in the East Melbourne Library room, we were able to go for a walk around a few blocks, stopping to sketch along the way. I was very fortunate that Penny from the group took […]
Last weekend I was invited to be the official sketcher on location at Prarahn Mechanics Institute (PMI) Victorian History Showcase in Melbourne. This came about through my connection over the years with PMI Library and Melbourne Rare Book Week. It was a bit different from my usual sketching on location. I usually sketch at talks. […]
I had great plans to have a time-lapse video of drawing my shoes this week. However, technology got the better of me, so I hope to have it on my blog next week! In the meantime here are my sketches from this week. After a week of sketching on location for Melbourne Rare Book Week […]
This week is part two of my sketches as the official “sketcher on Location” for Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) . Last week’s blog covered the first three days. The motto for Melbourne Rare Book Week is For the Love of Books. Melbourne Rare Book Week began in 2011 and after a COVID-19-induced hiatus, Rare […]
Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) has begun. It is a Melbourne-wide program of free talks and events that celebrate the importance of books and literature in life. It was been running since 2012 and this is the first MRBW after a three-year break due to Covid. It culminates in the Melbourne Rare Book Fair, which […]