Chris Osborne Art 
The Story Behind the Urban Sketching When I went to visit my friends at Toowoomba we took a side trip to Highfields Pioneer Village. I was extremely interested in their fire...
I crouched down to include space under the house making the dry grass look more menacing and overgrown.
Tractors, crawlers, trucks and wagons our neighbour has so much to sketch, I feel I could be here years just sketching his vast collection of vehicles.
The neighbour has a stunning collection of cars and the more junk and disorder the better for me as an artist to sketch.
Another tractor from the neighbours property, I'm thinking he may have customised this one and made it a real work horse.
I was lucky enough to get shown inside our neighbours shed, which had some really wonderful vehicles, this was a sketchers dream.
I prefer to paint old cars that are being restored as they seem to have more character than a finished product looking all shiny and new.
One afternoon I saw a flatbed truck passing by Possum Park with tractors loaded on it and couldn't believe a missed sketching opportunity.
When I spent two weeks in Lightning Ridge I came walked passed this old cottage most days and absolutely loved it.
This tractor had more box shapes than the other tractors so it was much easier to sketch using large rectangles.
After I created a set of greeting cards for the Pioneer Park at Dalby I delivered them to their gift shop and couldn't resist taking some more photos of the tractors.
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.
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.
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...
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.
The Church of St Oswald, Filey, is a parish church in the North Yorkshire town of Filey, England.
I also love how the car's colour is almost an identical match to the sky and the interior colours match the distant hills.
This fishing boat reminds me of when I used to live at Filey on the North Yorkshire coast as a kid.
Bunker 17 is one of 20 WWII ammunition's bunkers, 3 of them have been turned into unique accommodation.
Bird's Hut looks abandoned but apparently has artist staying there to work off grid for a while.
Chris Osborne Art 