The Sacred Heart Mission Opportunity Shop in Brunswick Street today, next to Body Fit Fitzroy. The bricks definitely need watercolour, but in the meantime you can swipe to see how the building looked back in the 1890's - not very different as an auctioneers I think. It was a great spring day to be out sketching and I had excellent company in @diannecolk - thanks Di! #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #usk #brunswickstreetsketchography #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #streetsketch #brunswickstreet #brunswickstreetfitzroy #fitzroy #cityofyarra #opshop #sacredheartmission #sacredheartmissionopshops #bockingford #accordionsketch #panorama ...

Back in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy today to sketch the Royal Derby Hotel on the corner of Alexandra Parade. The rain held off but yesterday it hailed and people passing showed photos of it looking as if it had been snowing! Such weird weather lately but that's Melbourne for you. Di drew me sketching all masked up perched on my stool. Afterwards I grabbed a yummy truffle cauliflower toastie @beeter.swit just down the road a little and Di and I sat on the mosaic swats to chat. It was lovely to catch up 🙂 #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #brunswickstreetsketchography #brunswickstreet #brunswickstreetfitzroy #fitzroy #drawnonlocation #globalsketchers #archisketch #architecturesketch #royalderbyhotel #melbournepub ...

Outside No 25 Flowers (not surprisingly a florist) at the Miller and Gilbert Road shops in Preston last week. I sat there for far too long and could barely stand up from my sketching stool afterwards. I think I still have the imprint in my ample derriere. Regardless it felt fabulous to be able to sit outside and sketch, watching locals enjoy their icecreams from a nearby gelati shop. #helendrawspreston #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #globalsketchers #bockingford #panoramicsketch #streetscene #drawnonlocation #preston #cityofdarebin ...

What a beautiful spring morning to sit outside the Old Fire Station Cafe Gallery in High Street, Preston, a suburb of Melbourne. Blossoms were gently blowing off the trees and @auntyfrank and I were distracted by the short wearing armoured guards who parked next to us. We were right outside a bank and not too sure if we should be insulted that we weren't seen as potential robbers given our masks and all. Who knows what we could have been hiding amongst our art supplies? #helendrawspreston #highstreetpreston #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchersaustralia #urbansketchers #globalsketch #cafesketch #panoramasketch #usk #melbourne #preston #streetview #bockingford #sketch ...

It seems so very hipsterish to build a verandah around the powerpole doesn't it? I drew this interesting corner building on location but painted it later at home. It used to house a pizza restaurant called Cafe Umago where our little group of urban sketchers enjoyed an end of year lunch after a sketching treasure hunt a couple of years ago. #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #brunswickstreetsketchography #brunswickstreetfitzroy #sketch #archisketch #architecturesketch #melbourne #streetscape #fitzroy #cityofyarra #accordionsketchbook #watercoloursketch #shopfront #drawnonlocation #drawing #melbournearchitecture #victorianarchitecture #bockingford #buildingportrait ...