A month of heavy Rain!!!!!

....my studio is wet, wet, wet.   I haven't been able to get out ans sketch.  Today in desperation, I sat under the carport and sketched my drought tolerant garden.  All this rain and humidity has made it grow like crazy, it looks awesome! :-)

Southbank Brisbane Qld Australia

I took the girls to Southbank on the 20th.  What better what to spend my birthday! :-)  They swam and I sketched.

Southbank was built on the old Expo 88 site.  It is a wonderful place for tourists and locals alike.  The biggest attraction is Streets Beach.

Urban Sketching. Matisse Drawing Life Exhibition. (Brisbane Australia)

My Granddaughter and I went to The Gallery of Modern Art today, to see the Matisse Exhibit.  We were delighted to find, they had set up a "Drawing Room"  We sat awhile and sketched.  I sketched Auguste Rodin's Bust "Torse de Jeune Femme", and a sketch of my granddaughter drawing..

Urban Sketching. Qld Art Gallery

I went to the Qld Art Gallery today and did a sketch of part of my favourite painting at the gallery. It is called Monday Morning.

A sketch from the dentist window Woolloongabba

This is the Former Taylor-Heaslop Building, erected in 1889-90, is important as surviving evidence of the Woolloongabba Fiveways, one of Brisbane's principal shopping centres in the latter part of the 19th century, and for demonstrating the impact of the economic boom of the 1880's in metropolitan Brisbane.

Urban Sketching Cannon Hill Shopping Centre

Mango Micks fruit stand

Mother and daughters.  The daughters had just come over to tell me I was a good drawer :D and to say that their father is an artist, and their uncle in South Africa is a famous artist!

This guy kept bobbing up and down so I gave up  :-)

Red Rooster from the service station across the intersection.  There is nowhere to park and I was too sore to stand and sketch today.

Watermelon stand at Mango Micks.

Bulimba Ferry Terminal Brisbane

The Bulimba ferry terminal was built in 1922 for the Balmoral Shire Council, then responsible for the efficient servicing of several ferry routes across the Brisbane River. Since the days of the convict settlement at Moreton Bay when a punt was poled between the main settlement and the south bank of the river, ferries have been a vital transport facility for Brisbane. The river twists and loops through the city and cross-river access is important in linking city and suburbs and greatly reducing travel time between them. Although the first bridge linked the city and South Brisbane in 1862, no other bridges were built for many years, public transport was limited and few people had private transport until after World War Two. People who needed to commute to work and to access shopping and entertainment facilities used cross-river ferries on a daily basis. Ferries were the only major transport service provided by metropolitan local authorities as responsibility for care and management had been placed in their hands by an 1858 Act.