Thursday, June 29, 2006
DD prompt - Draw Something to do with photography,
I drew 2 of my old cameras using ink and watercolour pencils. The first one is my old Minolta Weathermatic underwater camera which I love and will never part with. This camera gives the best snaps above the water ever. This second one is A Pentax 135mm Zoom camera I bought just before I was given a digital as a Christmas gift and has hardly ever been used but I will keep it because it is too good to throw out and I don't know what else to do with it. I find I am missing the negatives you used to get with you photos.
DD prompt - Draw an arm/Draw a Statue.
DD prompt - Draw a Local landmark.
This is a drawing of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. Draw with black pen and watercolour pencils.
For more than a century the grand Edwardian baroque building of Flinders Street Station has dominated Melbourne's southern boundary. The design was selected by an architectural competition held in 1902, and the red brick and golden cream stucco building was constructed between 1905 and 1910.
Trains had been arriving at Flinders Street since 1854. The present building is the most spectacular of a number that have stood on the site. Stretching along Flinders Street for more than a city block, and boasting grand archways and an expansive ballroom, it is public architecture on a majestic scale — a symbol of the importance of railways to the growth of the city and its suburbs.
Flinders Street Station has become far more than a place of transit. Meeting 'under the clocks' is a Melbourne institution, and the building arguably remains the city's principal landmark. Recently refurbished and repainted, Flinders Street Station is as resplendent today as ever.
For more than a century the grand Edwardian baroque building of Flinders Street Station has dominated Melbourne's southern boundary. The design was selected by an architectural competition held in 1902, and the red brick and golden cream stucco building was constructed between 1905 and 1910.
Trains had been arriving at Flinders Street since 1854. The present building is the most spectacular of a number that have stood on the site. Stretching along Flinders Street for more than a city block, and boasting grand archways and an expansive ballroom, it is public architecture on a majestic scale — a symbol of the importance of railways to the growth of the city and its suburbs.
Flinders Street Station has become far more than a place of transit. Meeting 'under the clocks' is a Melbourne institution, and the building arguably remains the city's principal landmark. Recently refurbished and repainted, Flinders Street Station is as resplendent today as ever.
EDM Challenge #42 - Draw a local City Landmark
This is the Melbourne Aquarium. It is just a recent addition to the city by a few years and sits on the Yarra river on the opposite side to the Crown Casino. I have visited the Aquarium 3 times and loved every time. I am a big aquarium buff and have been to most of the Aquariums on the east coast of Australia, I just love them. They are quiet, serene and beautiful. This is drawn with black pen and watercolour pencils.
EDM Challenge #39 - Draw your toothbrush.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
DD Prompt - Draw a Monkey.
The first little drawing I drew while watching TV with no reference material so while cute, it's not very right so I decided to garner an image of a monkey and draw it. Both are drawn with a Pitt brush pen and the second has watercolour pencil as well.
Illustration Friday - Dance.
Friday, June 23, 2006
EDM Challenge #68 - Draw your Computer.
EDM Challenge # 35 - Draw A (or part of a) Bicycle.
EDM Challenge #29 - Draw something Architectural.
DD Prompt - Draw foam.
DD Prompt - Draw the zodiac Cancer.
DD Prompt - Draw something Hot.
DD Prompt - Draw something you see when you wake up.
DD Prompt - Draw a beach scene.
This drawing was inspired by a photograph in the travel section of the newspaper taken in Mauritius. I have been holding on to the clipping for months wanting to one day paint this scene but never got around to it. This is close enough to a painting. Not quite the oil masterpiece I was imagining when I first seen the pic in the paper! Watercolour pencils.
DD Prompt - Draw a famous painting differently.
Friday, June 16, 2006
DD Prompt - Draw a bird in flight.
DD Prompt - Draw something voilet or purple.
DD Prompt - Draw someone working.
This is a sketch from my imagination. I must have been thinking about cooking at the time and I just let this happen. I am not good at drawing people from the front so I didn't! Its a chef/cook at work. I was pleased with the way this one came out and about. Not quite right but getting there! Graphite.
DD Prompt - Draw a parrot in its natural surroundings.
DD Prompt - Draw a skull.
DD Prompt - draw something small, close up.
This is about all I could find that could hold my interest long enough to draw it! Since I was curled up on the couch, wrapped up in a doona at the time it was also the easiest to set up to draw. My trusty derwent metal sharpener! I drew this with black pen and the colour is prismacolor color stick.
DD Prompt - Draw a doll.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
EDM Challenge #70 - Draw something you fear.
This was a difficult challenge for me because I couldn't think of anything I am scared of or fear. I finally remembered when I am put back in the boiler house after a long absence from it I am totally petrified. All the load noises going on from every where freak me out. You don't know if they are normal, supposed to be there or what's going on. My heart races and I shake. I keep looking over my shoulder every time I hear a new noise while I am doing the chemical tests...Freaking out! It takes about 3 days on the job to get used to all the freaky noises.
This is a picture of boiler No. 1. There are three in the boiler house. Drawn in my sketchbook with black pen. I might colour it one day.
DD Prompt - Draw something/someone from a movie.
DD Prompt - Draw your house.
DD prompt- Draw something "One thousand and one nights"
DD Prompt- Draw an extinct animal.
Saturday, June 03, 2006
DD prompt - Draw a monster.
DD Prompt - Draw something folk tale.
DD prompt - Draw a shell.
DD Prompt - Draw a candleholder.
I remember years and years ago, You could buy these copper candle holders that you could insert a box of matches into. I still have one floating around here somewhere and I see it occasionally whaen I am hunting for something else. This is what I think it looks like! If not exactly it will not be far off. They are probably still available somewhere. I haven't seen a box of matches for years so that's why this one never gets a guernsey. Well the one I have that may look something like this.
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