Mangaweka Magic 2024
Forecasted Rain Holds Off for an Energetic Mangaweka Mega Event 2024. Despite a heavy rain warning issued earlier in the week, Saturday was instead a dry and warm, if not…
Sketch Club 18 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: 1985 ‘Embryo’ watercolour - Dougie Chowns. Birthing New Zealand as an adult embryo to the world. Stanley Kubric enjoyed this work, always sitting beneath it having dinner in Great…
Sketch Club 17 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: Detail: ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ (below) - Jan van Eyck - 1434. Is this mirror a clue? SINGLE POINT PERSPECTIVE AND WHY YOU DON’T NEED IT The difference between observed drawing…
Sketch Book 16 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: ‘Child of Llyr’ - Dougie Chowns. Currently in the Timor-Lesté Presidential Suite - Life-size figure. As the boy metamorphosis into a swan, his face and the hand changing into…