Bishopbourne House - (St Francis Theological College Milton)

10" x 11" piece of Bockingford 140lb watercolour paper - Mechanical pencil 2B - Lamy pen - Watercolour.

I sitting on the veranda of Bishopbourne House - (St Francis Theological College Milton) looking at the Old Bishopsbourne Chapel.  

Old Bishopsbourne is a heritage-listed house at 233 Milton Road, Milton, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Benjamin Backhouse and built from 1865 to 1959. It is also known as St Francis Theological College and Bishopsbourne. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992
 

Saturday Sketchout with the Brisbane USkers at Dockside

Saturday, six of us braved the overcast skies and occasional spit of rain and went sketching at Dockside. Urban Sketchers Brisbane

My first quick sketch while I was waiting for a friend at the Holman Street ferry.  In between sketching I was talking to visitors to the area about our wonderful city.

Sitting at the Medley Cafe Dockside with the group looking out over the river.

I used my watersoluble Derwent graphite for these three sketches

Sketching the group while they were sketching.

All these sketches were made in my Holcroft A5 225gsm sketchbook

Still sitting in the Medley cafe sketching the Story bridge behind me.

 

Sitting on Dockside walkway sketching the apartment buildings.

 These two sketchers were made in my A4 Holcroft 225gsm Sketchbook Lamy pen Noodlers black ink, and Artline 210 0.6 marker

 

Sketchout Saturday with the Brisbane USkers

We went to South bank today.  It was wonderful on the Promenade.  Nice breezes, and a good view where I was sitting of the New Government building.  1 Williams Street (The Tower of Power)  I am really enjoying the stages of development of this building.  It does fascinate me, watching it take shape.

We had loads of Chinese tourists stop and talk to us while we sketched, and I enjoyed that was well.

Fabriano Venezia sketchbook 2B mechanical pencil

First Urban Sketchout for 2016!!!

The Brisbane Urban Sketchers met for our first sketchout of the year at the Collectors Cafe at the Brisbane Museum & Sciencentre.  It was a rainy day, so we hung around under cover.  Here are my two sketches of the day.

Looking across at the still, tallest building in Brisbane, the Meriton building.  The glass Pyramid is on the forecourt in front of the Collectors Cafe.

I moved up the stairs to the cafes seated area which is still under cover, and safe from the rain and sketched this view.

This is the Busway, taken from the top of the walkway that leads to the Museum and cafe.

Last sketch of the year with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers......

We met at South Bank and sketched the Plough Inn.  This two-storeyed former hotel was constructed in 1885 for Brisbane publican Daniel Costigan. It replaced a previous, less substantial structure on the site, which had functioned as the Plough Inn since 1864. The new building was erected during South Brisbane's heyday and was part of the 1880s boom-time reconstruction of Stanley Street premises.

A4 Holcroft 225gsm sketchbook.
Lamy pen and black Noodlers ink. This building was designed by architect Alexander Brown Wilson, who is more known for his domestic work. It was built by contractor Abraham James, whose tender of £3,300 was accepted in March 1885

 

Sketching the School of Arts with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers

Brisbane School of Arts is a heritage-listed school of arts at 166 Ann Street, Brisbane City, Australia. It was built from 1865 to 1985. It is also known Brisbane Servants Home, which was built in 1866 to house and train "young women of good character to work as servants." A former patron of this home was Lady Diamantina Bowen, wife of Queensland's first Governor. 

The home had closed in 1870, and it was purchased by the School of Arts in 1873 for £1,000. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.

 Holcroft A4 225gsm sketchbook
2B mechanical graphite pencil
Lamy pen
Noodlers black ink

Anne Street Pesbyterian Church - Out with the Brisbane Urban Sketchers

 Standing on land purchased at auction in 1854 from the government of what was then New South Wales, the Ann Street Presbyterian Church has some claim to be considered the oldest surviving church building in continuous use in Queensland. Only the Mary McKillop Chapel in the grounds of St Stephen's Cathedral is known to be older.

Holcroft A4 225 gsm sketchbook - Lamy  and Jinhao fountain pens. Noodlers inks and Sequola Green and Black