Sketchcrawl 21 announced - Jan 10 2009

Yes the next Official worldwide crawl will be January 10th 2009
And the Melbourne sketchcrawl group will be running again, if you'd like to meet up with us keep checking here or the forum or facebook group for updates.

I'd love to hear some suggestions for where people would like to go? I was thinking Start at spring st and work our way down little bourke through china town?

We had a great turn out last time of about 25 people and we'd love to see you all again!

If you can help with getting posters up at local art shops let us know!

http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=3419
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36223981062

Susan Wald at Ochre Gallery

Hello Sketchcrawlers!
Just a very quick update. I have just walked in the door from meeting Helen and Michael at Ochre Gallery, their current exhibition is the Figure work of Susan Wald.

Why I'm telling you you must go see it is twofold; 1. the exhibtiion is easily two thirds sketches and 2. they have two of Susan's sketchbooks on display which you may respectfully flick through.

So get up, get out, and see some art this weekend!

Ochre gallery is open 11-5 on weekends and is easily accessed by catching the 109 tram from the city and getting off at wellington st/tribeca.

Please Visit their website for more details http://www.ochregallery.com/

(I would have an image but there seems to be none about on the web- take my word for it and go!)

My kits.

Here are the two kits I use on a day to day basis;
The very basic kit;
Sketchbook: in this case a small moleskine
Waterbrush
Staedtler pigment liner 0.05
and a pallete made from scribbling my caran d'ache water soluble crayons onto some sheer heaven.



And the more comprehensive kit, I will most likely have this type of setup with me on the crawl.

Containing:
Sketchbook: one I made myself shown here
Travel paint kit: gouache pans in a vintage tobacco tin
Pens: in my fantastic stand up pencil case I carry a variety of drawing implements and water brushes.

I'm a little obsessed with Sketch kits and drawing implements, for details of my obsession visit my personal blog or my flickr

The Meeting place is set!

We would love to see you all at 10am on the front lawn at the State Library of Victoria! (328 Swanston st, between little lonsdale and lonsdale streets)

We have a proposed itinerary that is currently subject to change but goes a little like this -
Meet outside the State Library at 10am

Vic Market/Lunch

Little Bourke St
Degraves St

South Bank (there's this floating board walk beside the yarra which Adrian thinks would be pretty fun to draw on top of)

Alexandra Gardens

Fed Square/Coffee

Then if we are all not exhausted maybe on to chinatown for an early dinner!

We'd love to hear your comments/additions/suggestions so post away in the comments section!

Janice