State Law Building

I had a lovely morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers, sketching in King George Square.  I chose the Law building this morning, because I really loved the shapes between the Town Hall and the Law Building.

Roma Street Parklands

What a wonderful morning, sketching at the Roma Street Parklands with the Brisbane City Sketchers..

In 1825 the Roma Street Parkland area was part of the original Brisbane settlement. In 1875 a terminal station in Roma Street was constructed as part of the main western railway to Brisbane linking Ipswich and Toowoomba.  Local Indigenous people used the area for thousands of years conducting meetings and ceremonies. Construction began of the current Parkland in 2000 and the parkland opened to the public in 2001.

I sat in Fern Gully to sketch this mother duck and her seven babies.  I did the same last year too, this is her favourite place to rear them.

 

Sketching in Red Hill

THE LITTLE RED PROVIDORE

In past lives, this 140-year-old building on Windsor Road was once a General Store, then an antique lighting store before its more recent transformation into the eatery. Today, the matte black painted building has taken on a new persona as The Little Red Providore.

Handmade sketchbook 8" x 7" Pen and Watercolour

New Farm Park Ferry Terminal

The new Farm park Ferry Terminal is under construction, being one of the last terminals along the river to be rebuilt into flood proof structure.

 Brisbane City Sketchers

LDS Temple Brisbane

The Brisbane Australia Temple is the 115th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the Brisbane temple is the fifth temple in Australia.

A groundbreaking ceremony and site dedication for the temple were held on May 26, 2001. Construction began in November of 2001, and it took eighteen months and eleven million dollars to complete its construction. Despite the high price, the temple was built without any debt and was completely funded by members of the Mormon Church.

North Shore Hamilton

North Shore Harbour Brisbane;
This area was formerly home to Brisbane’s working wharves, which were established in 1923 Hamilton was developed extremely early in European settlement when Brisbane was still a penal colony, the women's prison was moved to Hamilton in 1833. Hamilton Road (now the airport thoroughfare, Kingsford Smith Drive) was originally built by convict labour as an access road to the prison.

 

 

Sketching in Adelaide Street

A wonderful morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers.  Loads of laughter and fun.  I chose to sketch Brisbane Arcade, and one of the five gorgeous light posts, that have bronze sculptures in them by Fred Whitehouse.

The Brisbane Arcade was build on scandal, death, and robbery.  You can read about it here.

Built in 1923 on the site of notorious confessed murderer Patrick Mayne’s butcher shop, the Brisbane Arcade is a splendid Edwardian baroque alley of gallery shops. Patrick’s son Dr James Mayne employed the son of 19th century architectural guru Richard Gailey, Richard Gailey Jnr to design it as a legacy to the people of Brisbane – a gesture that many believe was an atonement to the alleged sins of his father.

 Sculpted by Fred Whitehouse 1996 the are five light posts with the following sculptures. 

Possum - Flying Fox - Snake - Goanna - Birds.
Handmade sketchbook 7.5" x 6" lamy pen

Public Holiday Sketching

What a wonderful morning, sketching with the Brisbane City Sketchers at Gardens Point.  We sketched the magnificent Mansions, or part thereof.  Such a beautiful building, but very intimidating.  I started with graphite, then inked it then watercolour.

 I sketched this in my handmade 8" x 7.5 sketchbook on 90lb paper.

Sketching with a friend in her garden

I was visiting a very dear friend today and we sat in her garden and sketched..

Lots of angels, but fun to draw..

St Nicholas Free Serbian Orthodox Church

I did enjoy drawing this wonderful St Nicholas Free Serbian Orthodox Church..The Church designed by T.B.F. Gargett of Brisbane, was opened and dedicated on 9 September 1933. Sketched in my 8.5" x 6" handmade sketchbook graphite/pen/watercolour.

Tingalpa Pioneers Chapel

Tingalpa Pioneers' chapel, Christ Church  was founded by the Anglicans founded in 1868
It was - Demolished by cyclone in 1885 and rebuilt using the original timbers - Decommissioned and stripped for demolition in 1996 but saved when chapel and cemetery were Heritage Listed 

 

Sketched in my 8.5" x 6' sketchbook HB and 2B Faber Castell graphite 

 

Bio-Mechanical Pelicans

Biomechanical Pelicans sculpture created by Christopher Trotter in 1995  They sit on top of an historical wharf pylon in the Brisbane River near the Maritime Museum.

 

South Brisbane Public Library

I love this building, it is so elegant.  It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1881 to 1902 by W Macfarlane. This complex is composed of three structures built at different times in response to different needs: the South Brisbane Post Office (1881); the South Brisbane Municipal Library (1897); and the City Concert Hall (1902)

It is also known as South Brisbane School of Arts, South Brisbane Mechanics Institute, South Brisbane Technical College, and South Brisbane Post & Telegraph Office. It is now the Griffith University Film School.

 

South Brisbane Municipal Chambers

What a glorious winters morning.  I sketched with friends in a historic part of South Brisbane, the "Town Hall".

South Brisbane Municipal Hall is a magnificent building, with working clock tower and gargoyles.  In 1891, work commenced on the construction of the town hall. The building was officially opened on 1 July 1892   Although it was widely known as the "Town Hall", it was officially the South Brisbane Municipal Chambers. 
The builder was Abraham James,
Building commenced in January 1891. Work proceeded for six months, when the contractor developed financial difficulties. he lost his contract and the following tradesmen finished the work.

• Messrs John Stuart & Co won the tender for the stonework, brickwork, carpentry and joining work
• Mr John Campbell for the plasterwork
• Mr James Kay for the plumbing and gasfitting
• Messrs James Lang & Co for painting and glazing, while Messrs Exton and Gough continued as the providers of leadlights

The building was predominantly constructed from red Coorparoo and Waterstown bricks (without any alteration of natural colour). The brown and white sandstone facings are used in the entrance and exterior walls were supplied from Pearson's Quarry at Helidon. The exterior decoration used terracotta panelling (also in its natural colour) supplied by James Campbell & Sons of Albion. Ribbed galvanised iron was used for the roof.
I tell you this because, the building looks as magnificent today, as when it was first built. the building style is Italianate Classic Revival

 

 

St Mary's Catholic Church

The current church at St Mary’s was blessed and opened on 2nd July 1893. It replaced the first St Mary’s – a small wooden church built on the site of the present car park around 1864. Designed by architects George Simkin and John Ibler and built by Woollam and Norman between from 1892 to 1929
The style of the church, which combines Romanesque and Renaissance revival elements, was not common at the time as most nineteenth century churches were designed in the Gothic revival style.

Stanley Street South Brisbane

We sketched Historical Clarence Corner this morning. I sat outside the Clarence Corner Hotel, now known as the Brew House. It was named after the Steam Ship Clarence.
Clarence Corner was Brisbanes first Township, and it was quite a large one. In 1893 a devastating flood forced most of the retailers across river to Queen Street.

The cream building is Maggee Draper Emporium formerly Murray and Magee Coupon Drapers.
The black building is Robert Lenehan’s pharmacy at Clarence Corner in 1915.
Sketched in my handmade 8" x 6.5" 90lb sketchbook. Graphite 0 Lamy pen - Watercolour.

Sketching around the Brisbane Supreme Court

Fun morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers, on a breezy but sunny winters morning.  We sat in the Supreme Court Park, and I wandered around the back of the court building to sketch Fiona Foleys controversial Silent Whispers.  Her work is a memorial to the many massacres of Aboriginal people which had taken place during the colonial settlement and expansion of Queensland in the early 19th Century. There are names engraved in pavers, 94 names, that are the places of the massacres.

My second drawing is of the historic McDonnell Building