House after the gale
from w
A few days ago we had a huge gale that took down a few trees, brick walls, rooftops in Geelong. It's sunny today and my flu is better so I went out to go shopping and noticed my neighbour's house - four doors down - had a problem with the corrugated iron roof, all coming apart. So later on, I did a pencil sketch, added biro and here it is. This is a modest cottage, boom style, maybe over hundred years old, where a Hungarian elderly couple used to live with their three Vizla dogs. Now young guys live there and I guess storm damage insurance will give them a new verandah roof shortly.
Labels: boom style house, storm damage
posted by Peceli and Wendy's Blog at 9:34 PM
6 Comments:
eeek..that house looks mangled..great sketch though. I think Im going to start doing that, keeping a pencil and sketch book on hand. Since im not going to have time to do any big paintings. Its a brilliant idea.
I've been wanting to draw the huge ti-trees in the front yard but when I saw the gale damage then i decided it was time. Perhaps I have exaggerated a little - as I do with the truth and fiction.
w.
That house definitely looks sad, and your sketch style adds to the sense of melancholy (he says, typing this post while Typhoon #9 rages outside and hoping his own steel roof will come through intact).
I hope you get better soon. The flu is bad enough without it going on and on and on...
Hello Moody,
I hope things are looking up for you. The flu has gone....at last. I'm sad today though - have to play music at a funeral this afternoon - for a 90 year old. The family wants to sing 'Count your blessings'and the minister said, 'What? Never heard of it.'
w.
Lovely sketch, poor house. Glad you are feeling better.
Lovely lines and texture in this one. The house certainly seems to have character.
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