New Zine Zine!

 'Zine Daze 2' is a collection of my sketches based on Zine days at Geelong and Inverleigh. I employ the usual artistic licence, all in the interests of satire and irony. Also included are so sketches based on my train trip from Melbourne to Geelong, the Royal Dental Hospital waiting room, some unusual toy figures I bought at Camberwell Sunday market and a sexy fairy from my Fractured Fairy zine.

  You can buy one direct from me at Healesville zine day at the town hall this coming Sunday.

Port of Sale

 Colored pencil sketch. Actually, landscapes don't especially excite me but I still draw the odd one as a record of where I have been. That is my bike basket in the foreground.

Drawing Klara at the Portrait Group

 The group was sketching Klara today. I tried out a few different styles today. They are all 15 to 20 minute sketches.

                           First up is a pencil sketch with sepia finish added on the computer.

The next two I started by drawing without looking at the paper before reverting to looking. Colored pencil.

                                                           Colored pencil and marker pen.

      Next is actually the other half to the picture. This is actually my favourite sketch for the day.

The next two are also two halves an my next favorite. Fineliner.

Clocktower Waiting Room Sept 23 and 17, 2026

Today's waiting room sketch, Clocktower Clinic. This was a ten to fifteen minute on the spot sketch.

 

Below is an earlier sketch from the same waiting room. This was less of an exact record of individuals and more of an experiment with a lot of artistic licence. For example, the younger person was not blonde. I call this 'Waiting Room Time Warp'.

Chloe, the Cat, Line Drawing

 

A Weekend in Melbourne, Train Travel & the Geelong Zine Day

 The following drawings were made on my train trips and at the Geelong library zine day. There were some portraits I did and sold which I did not keep to put here.

You sometimes see some strange passengers on a train but I enjoyed the view of cat, bird, seal and bull - in my imagination.

                                         This lady had a lot of character so I drew her twice.

  Thee two young ladies were good subjects. The other two started s observations but became pure fictitious creations when the subjects moved off.

I loved the woman's skirt and yes, she is Scottish! She has a taste for Doc Martins. I got sloppy with the check pattern.

I spent some time sitting outside of Flinders Street Station, on the Swanston Street entrance and noticed the singing black African Christian 'missionaries'. A little juxtaposition was provided by a passing Sikh and someone photographing the front of the station. The height of the post was made shorter to include the seagull. The women expressed themselves with their hands but I realized afterwards that I made the one on the right have too long an arm.

Back to train passengers: The lady on the left loved talking and was very lively with her friends. The one on the window side was much quieter.

   The two young ladies at top left are visiting from Japan. I showed them this, they took a photo and wrote their names underneath. They said it made their day. The lady below was joyously eating an apple. The young boy at right had a mass of wavy hair.

I indulged in some whimsy below when I made the row of seats recede into a distant sea between Sun and Moon. I think I captured the character of the passengers.

  

Geelong Zine Day 19 September

This coming Saturday there is a zine day at Geelong library. I'll be there selling my art and comic zines as well as drawing people.