USK Auckland

This is quite a belated post, but I've finally started going for urban sketching outings - in auckland!

Watercolour sketches of Croatia

My favourite sketch is unfortunately the one out of Croatia, in Helsinki airport on the way back 

if: dragon

IF: voyage

The Reason I Jump

By Naoki Higashida, a 13 year old boy with autism 

This has been in my mind ever since I read what he says about nature. 

One of many gems in the book:

" i thought you always wanted to live in a kampung?"

IF - burst

what happens if you notice everything?

if - imagination

elephants

i've started a new collection on spoonflower :)

doodle creatures

1. take some watercolour
2. make a shape
3. fill it in
4. add details..

carving up

eggs turned birds

IF: identical

None of us are identical, and all of us are happier for it.

IF - tall

st john's island and lazurus island

Not perhaps the best day for an island trip…

We spent quite some time sheltered (partially) in a pavilion, painting.
In very good company :)

One of my postcards:

My other postcard:
(floating in the sea, sent there by a sudden gust of wind)

miraculously recovered it later, since the tide was coming in

no hay camino

caminante,
no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.

wanderer, 
there is no road, 
the road is made by walking. 

-Antonio Machado

IF - freeze

Frozen peas (I couldn't resist)

IF - bounce

I vaguely remember reading this somewhere and writing it down, can't find it now though..
(update: added a gif version, just to try gif-ing in photoshop)

IF - lonely

The first thing that came to mind was "no man is an island" - if only because it is a phrase I've always found slightly annoying. Today however I came across a new term/concept - ubuntu, and I found it not slightly annoying but rather impressive. Hmm.

chickens!

A cheerier post :)
The chickens at stonecircle organics (a vegan farm, they inherited the chickens from the previous owners) were some of the fluffiest, shiniest, most self-assured chickens i've ever met. They clucked, scratched and ambled regularly past my caravan and picnic bench, secure in the knowledge that they have the run of the land and will never be eaten.