Peter Rush - drawings
Ways Terrace - Pyrmont
Had a really enjoyable meet up last Saturday with Sydney Urban Sketchers at Pyrmont. Thank you Liz Steel. I was very late and sketched this block of flats as quickly as I could before I caught up with all the others. Plenty of great sketches.
I used a 6B pencil first as an outline, then added the colour to minimise smudging. To finish I heavily used the 6B to shade and tone. (squeezing in some more colour when needed) Size A2.
Ways Terrace is a public housing building completed in 1925. The architect Professor Leslie Wilkinson had a very strong conviction that Sydney architecture should be Mediterranean. So no, this is not Italy. It really is a very clever building, a big variety of flats, a lot of them two story with loggias and balconies. Pretty much unchanged since construction.
Ways Terrace - Pyrmont
Had a really enjoyable meet up last Saturday with Sydney Urban Sketchers at Pyrmont. Thank you Liz Steel. I was very late and sketched this block of flats as quickly as I could before I caught up with all the others. Plenty of great sketches.
I used a 6B pencil first as an outline, then added the colour to minimise smudging. To finish I heavily used the 6B to shade and tone. (squeezing in some more colour when needed) Size A2.
Ways Terrace is a public housing building completed in 1925. The architect Professor Leslie Wilkinson had a very strong conviction that Sydney architecture should be Mediterranean. So no, this is not Italy. It really is a very clever building, a big variety of flats, a lot of them two story with loggias and balconies. Pretty much unchanged since construction.