Quick Sketch at Roma Street Parklands, with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers..

 It was a lovely day at the parklands today.  The weather is gorgeous for strolling around, and that is what my friend Su and I did.  We wandered around pretty much the entire park, looking for inspiration.  I love autumn, low sun lazy shadows, and cool enough to really enjoy the stroll.

 

we settled on the Lake Precinct, and I did a quick sketch of a structure the designer and my friend calls "The Flying Duck.

Pen and watercolour on DrawMaster watercolour paper 9"x12" sketch pad 140lb/300gsm cp

 

 



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More sketches for May

The Story Bridge is rare, as it is the largest steel bridge designed, fabricated and constructed in Australia by Australians. It is a cantilever bridge built between 1935 and 1940, and is significant as a major example of Queensland Labour Government involvement in employment-generating schemes during the 1930s depression..

I was using my fountain pen here, and I thought the ink was well and truly dry when I erased my pencil lines on the right. I was wrong.
Kangaroo Cliffs in the background, they are a significant landmark for Brisbane too.

One of the cafes on Eagle Street Pier. I love the bright umbrellas. Have sketched them quickly a couple of times, but this time I sat awhile longer. You can see the Story Bridge in the back.. That drew me into sketching this scene as well, a drawing within a drawing.

 

 

This one was sketched at Captain Burke Park, under the Story Bridge.  I tried something different for me, putting three subjects (Customs House, Story Bridge, and a modern high rise building)that were not close together, together.  A sort of collage. 

Customs houses were built in all major Australian ports in the nineteenth century. Customs and excise duties were an important source of revenue, levied on goods from overseas and in some cases from other colonies.

 The original Custom House was built in 1849 at a bend in the Brisbane River known as Petrie's Bight. It was demolished in 1886 at the commencement of construction of the new Custom House, which was completed in 1889. This building was used for Customs operations in Brisbane for the next 100 years. Originally referred to as 'Custom House', it has been referred to as 'Customs House' since Federation in 1901.  It is now owned by the University of Queensland

The Peoples Palace, a heritage listed building, was once a temperance hotel owned by the Salvation Army.  It is now a Backpackers Hostel.  It is situated on Edward Street, and this view was from King Edward Park entrance.

It was built in 1910–1911 to provide affordable accommodation for working class travelling people.

 

Thank you for looking.

SKETCHING AT CAPTAIN BURK PARK

Tuesday was Brisbane Urban Sketchers Sketchout Day.  We met at Captain Burke Park - Kangaroo Point Brisbane Qld.

 

The views of the Story Bridge are amazing, as are the views to the buildings across the river, including the iconic  Customs House.

Also way up on the hill over the river is Brisbanes oldest school All hallows Girls Catholic School. It was this building I decided to sketch.

 

 

It was so great there, we are going back next Tuesday as well.  Come join us. Brisbane Urban Sketchers.

Sketching with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers

I am sketching two days a week with the Brisbane Urban sketchers now, and I have a painting group I go to on Mondays.  Plein air painting last weekend of the month, and in between this I do a little Brisbane Greeting. I seem to have filled all my days up, and left myself little time to update my blog.  So, here goes..  Just click on the images if you want to see them larger.

I sketched this from the seating area of the beginning of the Kuripla Bridge.  Mangroves and old wharf mooring posts.



Fig tree outside the gallery of Modern Art

 

Portion of the Kuripla Bridge, which crosses the river from the G.O.M.A. over to the city

 

 Saturdays visit to the Brisbane Museum

 

The last one was done in the Queensland Gallery Sculpture Garden.

 

Thank you for looking.

 

 







RECENT SKETCHES..

 

 

47th Worldwide Sketchcrawl.

 

 

 End if The Road Café at the New Farm Ferry Terminal

 

 

Sculpture at the Powerhouse

 

 

 

 These two sketches were done during meal breaks whilst in the city on Brisbane Greeters Business



This last weeks work - Plein air painting and Sketching.

 

Plein air painting at Lota Lookout Lota with the Brisbane Plein Air Painters Group

 

 

 

 

Sketching at WINDMILL TOWER at Wickham Terrace Spring Hill, with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers

The Old Windmill is a  heritage-listed tower located in Wickham Park, on Wickham Terrace in Spring Hill, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is the oldest surviving building in Queensland.
It was built in 1828 during colonial times by convicts for grinding grains, such as wheat and maize. The Old Windmill originally had wind-powered sails. The grinding of the grains was done by treadmill from October, 1828, with the wind-powered sails being used from December, 1828. The treadmill was dismantled in 1842 when the convict settlement was closed.

CURATORS COTTAGE City Botanic gardens

Built in 1905, for curator Walter Hill, it is on the heritage register.  It is now the Garden Club Café, and a fabulous place to have a coffee and a snack..





RECENT SKETCHES

 

 

 

 

 

 

CITY MARINA - GARDENS POINT

 

 

 SKETCHING at the NEPALESE PEACE PEGODA

 

 

 

 

SKETCHING THE BEAUTIFUL ROMA STREET PARKLANDS

 

 

  

SKETCHING THE BEAUTIFUL ROMA STREET PARKLANDS

 

 

Looking towards the Goodwill Bridge

SOUTHBANK

 

 





 



Plein Air Painting with the BRISBANE PLEIN AIR PAINTING GROUP

Today I headed to Lota creek with the BRISBANE PLEIN AIR PAINTING GROUP for our monthly paintout.  It was a lovely day.  Six of us came out.

 

OILON CANVAS 12" X 16"

 

Thank you for taking the time to check out my painting.  Please leave a message, I love to hear from you, and know you have been here.  Cheers JJ

 



Sketching at the Ship Inn with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers 10.02.2015

We sketched from the Ship Inn, an historic Pub in South Bank.  It was built in 1864, and once was a very rowdy sailors den, now it is a really nice pub, with fabulous atmosphere.

 

The weather was "iffy"  sunny one minute, and raining hard the next.  Mostly fine, but most of us stayed on the Ship Inn

 verandah with coffees at hand and sketched.



 

Bougainvillea Arbour

 

Chlorophytum comosum - Spider plant hanging from the Ship Inn verandah

 

Bougainvillea Arbour

 



 

Bougainvillea Arbour.



Sketching at the Queensland Art Gallery, with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers 03/02/15

Pelican sculptures  in a water feature outside the gallery

Outside the gallery, riverside

46th Worldwide Sketchcrawl

Five of us ventured out on a very hot day 33 deg C to participate in the quarterly sketchcrawl.

We started at the Treasury Casino

Sketched here until 10.30 am

Then across the Victoria Bridge

To the Queensland Art Gallery

The Art Gallery is on the left in the photo.  We sat under the trees and sketch for a little over 30 minutes.

I sketched the Victoria bridge, or part there of.

This baby magpie came to share his lunch with us.

Next we walked to the Queensland State Library.  we went into the RED BOX, which is a room build into the side of the building, jutting out over the river.  You can see it in the last river photo up there.

Batman Building 

It was the first major office tower in Brisbane's CBD to undergo a complete refurbishment, when its facade and roof were replaced in 1995, which resulted in the high-rise gaining nicknames, including the Batman Building and Gotham Tower.

The coloured buildings are the Brisbane City Library Buildings..

It was a good day.