A holiday from sketching architecture

I spent my two week summer holidays at home sketching around Sydney as if I was a tourist. I feel I didn't sketch much architecture... but from the look of this post I did more than I realised....

My first day was the ultmiate tourist day ... I ended up sketching that buidling again (the Sydney Opera House)


Between the shells - the door to the left is the loading dock! I drew another two sketches of this building on that day... but won't bore you with them.

On the other side of Circular Quay....

Just up the road from that.

On my second day (which was Christmas Eve) I sketched the tree in Martin Place with the GPO tower in the background. This seems SOOO out of date and old news now doesn't it!

Then a morning in a great museum - The Hyde Park Barracks

Afternoon in the Art Gallery and then I sketched the exterior of the buidling at closing time.
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After Christmas I went up to the BLue Mountians for a few days and although my focus was grand vistas I did sneak a few building sketches in...

Managed to sketch architecture in the background during lunch

And then a few cute buidlings in Mt Victoria.

A shop in Blackheath....

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During my second week I have some days at home, and then sketch meetups with some of my Sydney sketching friends

a quick sketch of QVB

An abandoned sub station with the Harbour Bridge in the background

The Mosque at Auburn - home to the Turkish community... the start of my world tour of Sydney suburbs.

I will leave my final day's sketching for another post!

So.. I suppose I did a fair share of architectural sketches even when I think that I am not...

I am ALWAYS sketching architecture

Whether it is out on location....

St Matthews Manly from my cousins wedding on Saturday


An hour at Milsons Point ...having fun sketching the Luna Park gates and then a very quick opera house sketch witn my new 3.8mm pilot parallel calligraphy pen (I never get sick of sketching this buidling!)

..... Or just some relaxation sketching after dinner.Trying different techniques and pen/colours....









.... Or a doodle at work

(from my Italian desktop calendar) while waiting for something to print
This is an example of my standard work sketching style - my bread and butter sketching that I have been doing for 20 years done with an Artline 0.4 black felt pen. Before I discovered watercolour I was totally addicted to cross hatching- it is the way that I think when designing – and it wasn’t until I started drawing my food that I started to restrain myself...now I hardly ever use it.


It doesn’t matter what you sketch as long as you keep sketching. Whilst I much prefer being outside sketching, I find it very useful to be constantly sketching and experimenting from photos in training for on location sketching.