Tag Archive for sketchbook
Postcards from Western Australia
Ship Moments
Training and Staff Bar
This itinerary has so many sea days, I think we get about four hours in port for every three days on the ship. Bleh! My sanity is being saved by ship-friends, the internet, and BBC’s “Extras” on DVD…
Shoulder Angel in Tauranga
Flat White
This is yet another stop on my cafe-tour of Australia/New Zealand: Enigma, in the windy city of Wellington. A lot of these ports are repeats from my first ship contract in 2008, and I’m happy to report that Enigma, Modak’s Espresso (Dunedin), eighty-eight (Mt. Maunganui) and the strawberry alarmclock (Aukland) are all still here. Our […]
Guest Sightings
Apologies for the odd proportions here; as you can imagine, I was going for quickness and discretion while I was drawing the guests…
Doing the Math
I drew this in Tasmania, our first port. It was mostly an excuse to mess with gray tones; I used two brush pens filled with different ratios of ink and water. (You know who does this really well? Ben Dewey and his Tragedy Series–Check it out!)
First Impressions
Here are some sketchbook bits from my first days onboard. (I don’t know how anyone makes it through safety/environmental training without a sketchbook!) Speaking of environmental training: The training is about how the ship’s recycling, air and water systems work, so that no-one clogs the water filtration system with used condoms, or gets hurt from […]