This week’s blog has my sketches from the past week. I have been travelling interstate to see family and am back in my sketching comfort zone. I visited in December when borders had just opened and things were a little different. I was quite anxious when travelling and although I sketched at the airport, I was not as relaxed as this time. It reflected in my sketches each time.

This time it was as if my sketching muscle memory has returned. It all came back to me and was though I had not had a break of a few years.

Sketching planes is always fun, once you get all the angles right and the proportions. This is where holding up the pencil to measure comparative sizes of parts of the aircraft helps! ie in the sketch below, from this angle the length of the wing is the same size as the length of the airplane. I always sketch the wing too short and have to extend it out.

It was great that this plane did not have an aerobridge for the passengers to enter, they had to walk across the tarmac, which meant the front of the plane was not blocked out for me when I was sketching.

I was able to sketch on the plane again – always fun.

Once I arrived home I took part in my Mum’s life. They played Scrabble and I watched, listened and sketched. Very entertaining. There is no likeness in the sketch, but it is all about me capturing the moment of being there.

We went to a St Patricks Day lunch. with lots a green being worn, a silly quiz and lucky door prizes. I did a very quick sketch there and then drew Mum’s badge later that night at home.

These are my feet up relaxing. We had a very big, wonderful but exhausting family reunion lunch on Saturday. Sometimes you need to judge the time and place to sketch and at the reunion was not it. But I could document the day at the end of it with my feet up (and my green nail polish from St Patricks Day).

happy sketching

Alissa