Sketching this month

I have been staying with my sister while she recuperates from a spell in hospital. Some kind friend had sent these flowers to cheer her up, and they certainly did that. They were also an interesting subject for my acrylics.

Ten days ago our sketching group met at Marsland Hill in the centre of New Plymouth and sketched the city through the view shafts available. If you look carefully you can just make out the Len Lye Centre behind the town clock in this version.

Then again, here is the view of two features on the top of the hill: the carillon on the left, and a memorial from the Land Wars on the right.

Here is another acrylic, this time of cyclamen in flower, again from my sister's home.

And this is a view of the house we lived in in Westown. I had morning tea with the acquaintance who built it and developed the garden, and showed him the sketch and we discussed the house and the contribution each of us had made to its development.