Pre Christmas drawings

From Pat Hanly

Been busy sorting out my garden to do any drawing let alone painting but here are a few ideas.

Birds in bush

Paritutu New Plymouth

Tongaparuto

Rear vision view

Filing in time watching TV

Just doodling with a pen

This was based on a Hockney drawing

Playing with a images

Filling in time drawing while watching TV -multi tasking!

All exercises in shading with my set of ink pens.

Wanganui River hill country and tuis

Had the occasion to drive by myself up the Parapara Road and took the time to stop often to admire the scenery - always looking out for a good photo or idea for drawing.

A lonely tree on a hill

A newspaper photograph of a Tui

Drawing  of the tui 

Landscapes and figures

Landscape from TV

Wellington Harbour from TV

Another TV rural scene

Clifftop scene

Figure

Figure

Seated figure

Taranaki pa site drawings -and one European redoubt

Maori pa site drawings

I have  had access to a  new book by Nigel Prickett with photos and illustration of Maori pa sites.

I enjoyed drawing some of the ideas as possible future paintings.

Below a finished painting