I usually take my sketching gear into the red rose cafe and sit down and sketch for a few hours until my car is ready.
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I was originally going to sketch this in charcoal from the same burnt tree I was photographing but totally forgot as I have a memory like a goldfish.
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About two weeks after the bush fires, I went to the state forest to see what the damage was like and see if I could find some tree stumps to sketch...
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One night around the campfire I was showing off my artwork and most people were impressed apart from one Karen.
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On the second last day I got talking to the support guy and he wanted me to sketch his bike, and this is the result.
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The Church of St Oswald, Filey, is a parish church in the North Yorkshire town of Filey, England.
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I came across this little guy perched on a branch looking a bit bedraggled after a bath and knew it would make a good painting.
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I also love how the car's colour is almost an identical match to the sky and the interior colours match the distant hills.
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This fishing boat reminds me of when I used to live at Filey on the North Yorkshire coast as a kid.
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Bunker 17 is one of 20 WWII ammunition's bunkers, 3 of them have been turned into unique accommodation.
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Bird's Hut looks abandoned but apparently has artist staying there to work off grid for a while.
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This blitz crane was a bit of a perspective challenge because of the bent parts of metal and the circular wire resting against the bodywork.
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Anyway I thought I would give digital art a go since I had lots of Telstra points and this enabled me to get an Apple Pencil 2nd
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This was fun to sketch apart from two other machines around it the same colour made it hard to distinguish the crawlers parts.
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This crawler is so different in shape, size, and colour to anything else in the shed and was begging to be drawn.
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An old pickup with a crane and a fair bit of junk. It's just knowing what to leave in and what to take out to make an interesting painting.
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Some trucks just seem to scream out, "sketch me", and I'm also glad this truck hadn't moved in the two months between visits as my first photo of it wasn't very...
I love the tractors with headlights it always seem to give them some kind of character.
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A very beat up vehicle that has probably worked very hard in it's life and now having a good earned rest.
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This poor little tractor seems to have totally given up and sunk into the mud.
One day I was gardening and felt light I was being watched, and looked around and couldn't see anyone
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