Return of the Gallery in Taranaki

The re-opening of the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, including the new stainless steel Len Lye Centre. They closed the streets around the building for the opening ceremony (but mostly so that everyone could get photos and selfies in the mirrored steel outer surface). The White Hart Hotel, one of New Plymouth's oldest buildings, is an interesting neighbour for it. The old and the new, both very challenging to sketch. The White Hart just has so much detail. If you don't draw it all, when do you stop? And the Len Lye Centre, is just plain weird. It's like trying to draw a Photoshop filter. I sat on the step across the street for several hours while trying to figure out where it all goes.
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Pah Homestead

Sketch results form last weeks Big Draw meet at Pah Homestead in Hillsborough. Pah Homestead is the home of the Wallace art collection and is always worth a visit for the always changing art on show as well as the restored grand old building and grounds that it is housed in.

On this visit the public took my interest as interesting subjects to sketch. There were plenty of bemused expressions at some of the works, clearly some people were more into the art than others. If only they'd stand in one place a little longer!