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1998 Life Among The Ruins - Pencil, Ink and colored pen. Based on a photo in a National Geographic magazine of ancient ruins where life was showing again. I lost the information as to where the ruins are located.
The drawing was created for an event at a local artist showcase downtown called "Fill the Frame."
part of the great ocean walk - Princetown and the Gellibrand River estuary - does not quite make the Southern Ocean except in flood. This was sketched on the way bak to Princetown,the next sketch was on the way out same spot but a bit lower down the track.
I couldn’t get any closer as armed police would come. This was next to the constitutional court.
Drawn with Karlsruhe Urban Sketchers.
Earnscliffe is an historic site overlooking the Ottawa River on a cliff next to the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge in Ottawa. ('Earn' is an old English word for eagle.) It was built in 1855 by a lumber baron, Thomas McKay, and later purchased by Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, in 1883. In 1930, the mansion was purchased as the official residence of the British High Commissioner and still is. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit it during the Open Doors Ottawa Festival and was impressed by the ornate gardens around the mansion and its interior. While on a bike ride recently, I began this sketch of Earnscliffe from across the river.
Earnscliffe est un site historique surplombant la rivière des Outaouais sur une falaise à côté du pont Macdonald-Cartier à Ottawa. («Earn» est un vieux mot anglais pour aigle.) Il a été construit en 1855 par un baron du bois d'oeuvre, Thomas McKay, et plus tard acheté par le premier premier ministre du Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, en 1883. En 1930, le manoir fut acheté comme résidence officielle du haut-commissaire britannique et l'est toujours. Il y a plusieurs années, j'ai eu l'occasion de le visiter lors de la festival Portes ouvertes Ottawa et j'ai été impressionné par les jardins fleuris autour du manoir et de son intérieur. Lors d'une balade à vélo récemment, j'ai commencé cette esquisse d'Earnscliffe de l'autre côté de la rivière.
I didn’t intend to sketch and even left my stool at home. I passed this building in perfect light and had to sketch it. There was even a base for a temporary sign for me to sit on at exactly the right spot. A fellow Karlsruhe Urban Sketcher came over for a chat.
Inktober 2023
Day 30
Rush
This year, I will try to make INKTOBER drawings based on popculture, drawn without sketching first.
This is the Flash, rushing out.
This was the first time I drew with a head torch. God knows what the waiters thought of a guest sat at a table with a torch on his head.
I have work for sale on Etsy:
This old Spanish mission style building was once the soft drink factory Tristram's. It is now home to the West End Markets.
Drawn to the roar of traffic on Route 66, cars driving out of the busy car park behind me and huge freight trains, one had five locomotives! It was loud, cold and windy, very stressy but I had to capture this classic diner.
My contribution to a moleskine exchange. The orange & blue washes left & right were done by another artist, but the rest is mine...
Ink drawing on vintage paper over a collaged ground of various vintage & found papers.
Spiders are naturals for driving, they have all those eyes and the arms can handle so many tasks at once. This is why many exotic car makers have named certain models spiders. Day 2 of Inktober, word is Spiders. #inktober #inkdrawing #inktober2023 #inktober2023spiders
This is the gardener’s 3-wheeler. They spoke in an excellent strong Karlsruhe dialect as I was drawing this.
INKTOBER Day 18: DRIVE
Last year, I drew the General of Dukes of Hazard, this year it's this beasts turn.
On another bicycle ride, I stopped near the Ottawa River in the Lac Leamy Park where a shipwreck is found. It always surprises people to see the skeletal remains of a sunken boat in the river. And it also makes a good subject for a sketch. The history of this boat is fairly interesting. It was named the Jean-Richard and was the last wooden ship to be built at Petite-Rivière (Québec) in 1959. The National Film Board even made a short film of its construction which can be viewed on its website. In 1976 the boat would make its way to Ottawa where it was used for a brief time as a cruise boat and was renamed the Ville de Vanier. It then seems to have been used as a private boat and caught fire in 1987 and was abandoned where it now lies. (An interesting article was written by Andrew King in 2014 and can be read on his blog - www.Ottawarewind.com.) The location of the shipwreck is in an isolated but very attractive area - I think I could have spent a couple of hours here just admiring the landscape and watching the waterfowl on the river.
Lors d'une autre balade à vélo, je me suis arrêté près de la rivière des Outaouais dans le parc du Lac Leamy où se trouve une épave. Ça surprend toujours les gens de voir les restes squelettiques d'un bateau coulé dans la rivière. Et c'est aussi un bon sujet pour un croquis. L'histoire de ce bateau est assez intéressante. Il s'appelait le Jean-Richard et fut le dernier bateau en bois construit à Petite-Rivière (Québec) en 1959. L'Office national du film a même réalisé un court métrage de sa construction qui peut être visionné sur son site. En 1976, le bateau se rendrait à Ottawa où il a été utilisé pendant une brève période comme bateau de croisière et a été rebaptisé Ville de Vanier. Il semble alors avoir été utilisé comme bateau privé et a pris feu en 1987 et a été abandonné là où il se trouve maintenant. L'emplacement du naufrage est isolé mais très attrayant - je pense que j'aurais pu passer quelques heures ici à admirer le paysage et à observer les oiseaux aquatiques sur le rivière.