This is one of my first few train sketches. I know because I was scared to draw people in real time. Instead I focused on things that were on the train. I had made a little bag with coloured pencils, an eraser, pencil sharpener and a few markers. I used to doodle on the free … Continue reading #Art – Train Sketch – Start your sketching journey
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#Art – Train Sketch – Movement and words
Movement and WordsPencil on Paper - 2015 Dee Grant Trains are a community of strangers making regular urban journeys. There is the to and thro as the train lurches back and forth. People hang on, people lean against walls. The lucky ones get a seat. This sketch is looking at the main entry to the … Continue reading #Art – Train Sketch – Movement and words
#Art – Train sketch – Robotic Voiceover
The monotone robot voice "this train will stop at...North Sydney". Clackety clack clackety clack is what I hear as the morning train makes it's way over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I am struck by the solid stance of a health care worker with her badge dangling off her uniform in the main carriage. A girl … Continue reading #Art – Train sketch – Robotic Voiceover
#Art – Train Sketch – Long day
He leans against the clear perspex. Eyes closed. The train sways like a lullaby. It's been a long day. (Tap on picture to view) In his folded arms, protruding from his satchel a copy of the Herald newspaper. To his right are the main exit doors. This is the afternoon express heading south to Sutherland from Sydney … Continue reading #Art – Train Sketch – Long day
#Art – Train Sketch – Qualified but unemployed
Qualified but Unemployed - Pencil on Paper 2015 - Dee Grant I'm listening to the chatter on a crowded city train platform. Some lament that even though they have gone to uni they still can't get a full time job. I like the guy with the glasses on the right as he gazes up the … Continue reading #Art – Train Sketch – Qualified but unemployed
#Art – Train Sketch – Over the Harbour Bridge
Personal space of train travellers. Everyone relaxes into a pose to keep them upright should the train jolt. This guy leans with the right shoulder against the wall with his Hurley backpack. My sketches are done then and there. No photos are taken. This means that you generally have to expect that the subject will … Continue reading #Art – Train Sketch – Over the Harbour Bridge
#Art – Train Sketch – Revesby to Central
Familiar faces you never acknowledge, the smell of perfume and freshly laundered clothes. In a train I was hunkered down and switched off from what was going on around me. So were they. They were in their own space considering their own day. Several sketch books later I stopped. Revesby to Central - Pencil on … Continue reading #Art – Train Sketch – Revesby to Central