My text tells me there are two important aspects to perspective drawing: the visual cone, and the visual spectrum. My best Junior Certificate subject was Technical and Perspective Drawing. My Manual Arts teacher strongly recommended that I pursue a career in this field but I had already started to learn to shear sheep. Shearing became my trade skill.

This is an optical illusion created by setting out a series of mulita-coloured squares of the same size but linking the drawing to a series of vanishing points thus producing a 3D effect.

Here, I’m playing around with circles and colours using Sketchbook.

Again using Sketchbook, I’ve drawn overlapping elliptical shapes to produce a different effect.

I like coloured circles. they’re fun to create.

Steaming was created in MS Excel using various shapes and colours. I have a passion for steam powered machines probably because I saw a lot of them when I was young. Particularly steam power rail locomotives. It was a great treat to be given one shilling to take to school so that I could go to the railway station and buy a pie from the cafeteria. Those meat pies were the best I’ve ever tasted. Perhaps because the taste and smell was enhanced by the flavours of burning coal, steam, and engine oil.

I even got to drive a locomotive at our nearest rail yard. Dad was loading cattle for shipment to the saleyards.

 

This morning, as I was riding the exercise bike, I noticed a shadow on the garage floor. The sunlight was filtering through a stained glass work creating a pattern. In the first picture I’ve used the basic colours of both the black light, and the white light spectrums. In the second I’ve used complementary colours from the Coptic Palette. Both were developed using Sketch Book Pro.

This Manor House has been built and coloured using Microsoft Excel. Perhaps it’s my dream house that we’ll build someday.

Not far from where we lived at Heathcote, Victoria is a glade of Liquid Ambers planted many years ago by the local Lions Club. In the autumn, the trees are a spectacular sight as their unusual shaped leaves change colour and fall to the ground to provide a multi-coloured carpet that our small dogs love to play in.

One afternoon when we were walking the dogs in the glade of Liquid Ambers, the wind was blowing and the leaves were falling like multi-coloured rain. I’ve used Sketchbook airbrush spatter to recreate the scene.

I’ve used Sketchbook to create this Liquid Amber leaf with its various colours using an actual leaf as a template.