Helen Wilding - Australian artist and urban sketcher

BRUNSWICK STREET

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Australian artist, urban sketcher, librarian with a long term project to draw all of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. Prints available through my website.

Bakes & Bagels in Miller Street, Thornbury is usua

Bakes & Bagels in Miller Street, Thornbury is usually packed with customers and a constant trail of local puppers going along for the walk as their humans pick up a chocolate raspberry brownie or a salmon bagel with cream cheese. Yesterday afternoon was wet and cold though and it was quiet after the lunch rush. As I drew, the plastic tarp held rain off the tables but hid the details in the window, so I couldn't show the variety of seed toppings on the bagels 🥯🤣. @bakesandbagels_ #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #watercolorsketch #millerstreetthornbury #thornbury #helendrawsthornbury #millerongilbert

Oops - ran out of paper! Unfortunately on a fold,

Oops - ran out of paper! Unfortunately on a fold, so I'm going to have to think through how I'm going to attach a paper flap to add the rooftop balustrades. More chatting than sketching in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy this morning, but good fun. Lovely to have a surprise catch up with @everydaylizmc - who was out for a coffee but carrying all her sketching gear! Apparently my rainbow shoes confirmed my identity 🌈. And then the rain started, leaving the only dry viewpoint blocked by an inconveniently parked car, so an early chai and lunch it was, @elektrafitzroy with @tdkidd20 @auntyfrank @pixelationstudios and Alf :) #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #brunswickstreet #brunswickstreetfitzroy #sketch #streetscape #archisketch #melbournearchitecture #melbourneheritage #victorianarchitecture

Hot off the press - my latest print of 581 to 591

Parliament House, Melbourne on an overcast but mil

Parliament House, Melbourne on an overcast but mild Melbourne morning. It's a public holiday but most people in town are probably at the Grand Final parade along the Yarra river so it is quiet here. Other than for the busker in front of the Princess Theatre behind me who repeats the same first minute of the Harry Potter theme music over and over and over. Afterwards Tish and I went for a dumpling lunch in Chinatown. #melbourneurbansketchers #usk #urbansketchers #streetsketch #helendrawsmelbourne #parliamenthouse #melbourne #melbourneartist

Sketching Victoria's parliament (or rather the tre

Sketching Victoria's parliament (or rather the trees outside) while waiting for a friend #melbourneurbansketchers #parliamenthousemelbourne #usk #urbansketchers #penandink #treedrawing #bockingford

Finally some sunshine in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Finally some sunshine in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy this morning and also some kind drivers who started to park in front of me and then kindly moved. Thank you guys! My biggest challenge today was trying to work out the lattice pattern in the windows of the Chinese restaurant. I think I got it - sort of! #melbourneurbansketchers #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #usk #urbansketchers #melbourneartist #bockingford #sketch #streetsketch

Adding colour to one of my trees drawn on location

Adding colour to one of my trees drawn on location nearly a year ago in Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy. Yes, it takes me a long time to get around to finishing things and I have a big backlog. For those I know will ask, colours are Holbein leaf green, Daniel Smith Green Gold, Sap Green, Diopside Green and Indanthrone Blue. #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #watercolourprocess #wip #paintingtrees #watercolours #watercolor #danielsmithwatercolors #holbeinwatercolors @danielsmithartistsmaterials @holbein_australia #melbourneartist

I received a couple of gentle hints to finish off

I received a couple of gentle hints to finish off this sketch of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy North which I drew back in October last year as we were finally emerging from lockdowns and could go back to sketching in the fresh air again. These panoramic streetscapes are too big and long to paint on location (at least for me) so I add watercolour at home #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #brunswickstreet #fitzroynorth #watercolour #wip #watercolourtrees #watercolor #streetscape