tim mooney Sketch

Very slack lately but things will rev up. 

I can enthusiastically recommend time on Cockatoo Island. Fantastic.

And what a great feast of sketching subjects

you can stay in these

and there is so so many interesting relics all over the Island … like these cranes around Fitzroy Dock:

The one of the left is a fully restored Steam Crane!

and being such a maritime environment you can sketch while you wait for the ferry:

On the drive around the property to check things we went out to paddock 9million to see some lambs that had arrived in the last two weeks.

When we stopped they circled the car in hope of a feed. The pasture is plentiful but old habits die hard … especially for sheep in a paddock near Warren, NSW. Here’s the sketch and do what its says … if you like. Baaaah!

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Well I know that absence makes the pencil stay longer.

No not really.

Just home yesterday from a near three week road trip covering four thousand kms around NSW, Australia.

Old pubs, photography, engagement party ( Congrats Ben and Phoebe), aerials and more. I started a visual journal and it is yet to be finished.

I was inspired with Jack Brennan’s mammoth effort of a 100 hour week that he puts in on his property NW of Warren. Cotton, crops and cattle.

Road diary sketches

Jack is in a family partnership on the property and his grandfather started the whole show. On a farm tour with Jack to check a few things I was inspired by a few essential things such as the water pump for the whole property (10,000 acres). Jack found an old diesel motor second hand and converted a derelict wind mill to diesel. The top sketch in the above journal extract shows how I see the set up. Jack’s Dad designed the water tank stand. The bore has been down (1000ft) for years. The windmill doesnt have a head (blades) anymore … it just stands proudly alongside the tank stand. Both engineering icons. One of those oil heater tanks provides the fuel supply for the diesel motor which drives the pump to pump the water to the tank up the top of the other stand. Gravity feeds the stock on entire property from this tank. Its bloody flat out there!

The bottom sketch is of the Armatree silos. Armatree NSW is not too far from Warren. Beautiful weather.

This is just brilliant. How is this for talent. Read more on the Art Gallery www HERE

Tim Storrier wins the 2012 archibald