A sketch or two

Arrow Junction, 

a couple of kilometers from Arrowtown, is where Terry and Karen have their 1880s stone cottage, where we stayed while on a recent South Island tour:

This sketch of the cottage was done from a photo after we got home.

A few days later, from life, is this of the spot in Brooklands Park where we were married 40 years ago last Wednesday:

In our neighbourhood, just round the corner really, is this historic puriri tree:

And not too much further away towards the sea is this street, where Margaret lived when her family first moved in to town from working on farms. The bridge crosses the 1907 rail diversion which was built to avoid the level crossing of the main street on which several fatal accidents had occurred.

One sunny afternoon I sat in the back yard and sketched our macrocarpa bench and its surroundings:

And while we were in Auckland Margaret and her sister went shopping one afternoon, so I produced this still life, in charcoal pencil and ordinary pencil:

One recent Sketching Group meeting was held in the Art Cafe at Toptown. Here is the view across Gill Street: