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Winter trees

A break in the weather allowed a visit to the Park today. I began this drawing in pale sunlight which quickly turned to November grey chill which made a trip to the cafe for warm soup essential!

More sketching

This morning was bright so I went to the park to sketch again. I took a lot of photos of autumn leaves and then setteled down to do this. I never seem to have quite the right colours  in my box but its quite good to be forced to improvise .

Autumn in Hotham Park rose garden

Autumn brings such a glorious  untidy tangle to the garden and Hotham Park rose garden is a colourful mess of  remnants of summer glory. Fortified with excellant coffee and muffin from the lovely new cafe I sat for a happy hour trying to catch this with pastels. The result ? Well it does help if…

Making hay while the sun shines

Today the forecast was sun all day so what better than spending another few hours in Hotham Park sketching. I’m going with pastels at the moment as I like the instant colour and the challenge of using a limited number of colours.  

Now, my autumn leaves

I’ve already posted on this blog today but thought I would share the sketch I managed to do before the sun went in. Not a great work of art, but having done this I will remember it better.