Perfect time to be indoors and start a new series of art works. To warm up I’ve been going through my photos of the Rosebery athletics carnival from last year.
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The wood chopping, rock drilling, running and pony rides! I’m looking forward to this years carnival, hopefully I can sketch in-situ.
I find sports both captivating and completely bonkers! I was never the sporty type, no-one in my family was and, of course I would have preferred to be writing stories and drawing pictures. However I do like jogging and lifting weights, but i don’t have to be in a group to do this, I can be on my own. I do have an appreciation for the human form and have always enjoyed life drawing. I find in sport, you see extreme and amazing action poses portrayed in various body types. Even a portly gentleman swinging an axe or playing football has both elegance and power in their movement. With wood-chopping. the stance and axe, crisp, clean white trousers paired with the iconic Australian blue singlet, it’s a timeless and enduring scene!
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