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Just as I was taking my artworks down I could hear someone calling my name, I automatically thought oh bugger what have I done.

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 engine museum because I’m thinking of creating a transport or fire related exhibition in the future. I came across this wonderful little slab cottage with so many hanging baskets which once painted looked like hanging pumpkins. Just outside was a very… Read More

I crouched down to include space under the house making the dry grass look more menacing and overgrown.

When I spent two weeks in Lightning Ridge I came walked passed this old cottage most days and absolutely loved it.

Bird’s Hut looks abandoned but apparently has artist staying there to work off grid for a while.

A few moths ago I got my car serviced in town and had to kill a few hrs so I asked permission to sketch in the Red Rose Cafe, the artwork I’m currently sketching now.

I wish that I had looked inside this building because It had something wonderful to show.

Out of the whole building I really like the roof the most because of the transformation from the watercolour to adding the Tombo brush pens.