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.

Starting the big Moran and Cato building in Brunsw

Starting the big Moran and Cato building in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. There were so many angles on the corner section and I got totally lost at times! Lots more of this building to go. We went up to the rooftop for lunch afterwards. #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #brunswickstreet #brunswickstreetfitzroy #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #streetsketch #bockingford #melbourneartist #cityofyarra #melbourneheritage

St Vincent's Private Hospital is being extended in

St Vincent's Private Hospital is being extended into Brunswick Street, Fitzroy and I thought it was important to record this time in history. I may or may not have shrunk the construction site a little to fit in St Patrick's Cathedral on the left, and the old fire station tower peeking over retained walls in the centre. Ghost signs have been revealed on the side of what was once the Belvidere Hotel. They are incomplete so Alf and I had a long discussion about whether they were advertising Fosters Lager and Victoria Bitter. Do you know? For those I know will ask, I drew and painted it over two sessions :) #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #brunswickstreetfitzroy #streetscape #sketch #melbournesketchartist #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #bockingford #belviderehotel

Another section of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy drawn

Another section of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy drawn in ink and waiting for watercolour. I draw on pieces of Bockingford cold press watercolour paper that I cut and fold. I then clip it to cardboard while I'm drawing so that it stays manageable. This section includes @vlogsofhyderabad @headingouthair @fitzroy_frame_makers @b.o.y.d_studio and Bell Street Coffee Window. #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #streetpanorama #streetsketch #brunswickstreetfitzroy

Napier Hotel, Fitzroy a couple of weeks ago. I was

Napier Hotel, Fitzroy a couple of weeks ago. I was sitting on the steps of the Fitzroy Town Hall for the most interesting angle and got a tad too sunkissed. #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #usk #fitzroysketch #sketch #napierhotel @napier_hotel

The Brunswick Street Bookshop and Rice Paper Sciss

The Brunswick Street Bookshop and Rice Paper Scissors in, you guessed it, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy last week, drawn in between vans parking in front of me. My long term project to draw this street continues and watercolour will eventually follow. So many beautiful buildings and increasing vandalism from taggers which is so sad. @ricepaperscissors_ #brunswickstreetbookstore @brunswickstreetbookstore #helendrawsbrunswickstreet #melbourneurbansketchers #urbansketchers #sketch #streetsketch #melbourneartist #streetscape #brunswickstreetfitzroy

Flinders Walk looking towards Flinders Street Stat

Flinders Walk looking towards Flinders Street Station, Melbourne today with #melbourneurbansketchers - it was great to catch up with my fellow sketchers, newbies and overseas visitors. Hopefully we will have more visitors as we near the Auckland Urban Sketchers Symposium! #helendrawsmelbourne #urbansketchers #urbansketchersaustralia #sketchbook #melbourne #sketch #melbourneartist

The Godfrey buildings in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

The Godfrey buildings in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, sketched over two sessions a month or so apart. My daughter @bethshipperlee.design came along and got a tad sunburnt while waiting patiently for me, as I kept dropping all my watercolour pans over the ground. Oops on multiple fronts there. #melbourneurbansketchers #usk #urbansketchers #urbansketchersaustralia #streetsketch #melbourneartist #sketch #brunswickstreetfitzroy @huntergatherer_stores @elektrafitzroy #fitzroy

Back in Collins Street, Melbourne, yesterday to ad

Back in Collins Street, Melbourne, yesterday to add watercolour to a sketch I did a week or so ago. I’m trying different sketchbook formats to decide on my favourite. I like how much I can fit in this A4 landscape but unsure whether it is too wide to manage. I dropped my little palette off my stablo easel a couple of times and had to replace the magnetised pans. I think I need to go back to more of a traditional palette for the next big trip we are planning but then working out my traveling art kit has always been half the fun of a trip! #melbourneurbansketchers #helendrawsmelbourne #urbansketchers #usk #urbansketching #sketchbook #globalsketch #sketchartist #melbourneartist