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Great evening launching the brilliant book, make a home to love, by @annacarindesign fantastic to have a few of the sketches from the book in large format on display. Thank you to @laurenryan_interiors for organising. Book published by @briobooks and
Congratulations to @annacarindesign for a brilliant new book called to make a home to love published by @briobooks I provided illustrations for each of the 10 chapters in the book, with a consistent character present in each sketch; it was a really f
Here are a selection of drawings that form part of an illustration commission for a new building for BNP Paribas REIM located at 185 Charles de Gaulle in Neuilly, Paris. The site for the building, designed by Arte Charpentier Architectes is between t
As part of the world monument watch day for the sirius building, I had some sketches and sketchbooks on display at the event held on Saturday. Great presentations, fantastic work by UTS and NIDA students and other artists. I have some sketchbooks lef
Action stations; lots of movement for the concrete pour on site today #constructionsketches #honbriggsdesign #urbansketches
Some sketches of the strand arcade from last weeks meet up with @patsouthernpearce and USK sydney; always nice to do a swap and to give a sketch away to a good home @joscelyne42 #urbansketchers #usksydney
A quick sketch whilst the plumber and @jasonlaw7 from @ballast_construction work out the setting out of a new powder room on site. The old pipework was stacked in a way that looked like an art installation. Swipe for context and action #honbriggsdesi
Trying to be serious in fruit shirts is near impossible; but always fantastic to to learn from and work alongside @evaesposto and the brilliant staff at the royal university of fine arts in phnom penh in cambodia for this years #streetlifestudies #un
@ballast_construction making good progress on site; a beautiful day to see snippets of the views that are emerging. Copper detailing by @arcroofing and recycled spotted gum cladding by #australianarchitecturalhardwoods #honbriggsdesign
Work in progress; i’ve always been interested in the exploring the residual spaces left between tags and this laneway corner in redfern has been tagged heavily over the last few weeks. This hastily put together tape drawing (it was too hot!) fo
Experimenting a bit with a drawing of an imagined construction site; i can see a few OHS issues here that need to be fixed!
Here’s a few time lapse tasters of what it like to cycle in phnom penh; great fun but you have to have your wits about you and no dilly-dalling is allowed! Camera was taped to my body and hidden in my shirt pocket. Swipe for a few more; Sound u
A little bit late to this as i’ve been in Cambodia mode, but some great news came in whilst I was away. I’m very excited and humbled to be selected to join the amazing group of super talented sketchers to run a series of workshops at this
A journey drawIng of details, shapes, and signs on street 19 block between 178 and 172 in phnom penh. I learned so much about this part of the street while doing this which is the main aim of this type of drawing #phnompenh #learningthroughdrawing #l
Phnom penh outakes; some sketches that are either unfinished or that i’m not entirely happy with, but still it’s all part of the process. All done on location, most are continuous line and provided a good level of interaction with the loc
A collage of observations made whilst stationary at traffic lights in a tuk tuk from phnom penh riverside to the airport; an amazing city + amazing people = an amazing experience. Ah kun chiranh #phnompenh #urbansketches
Sketch on a used motorbike headlight of some motorbikes parked on street 19 in phnom penh in cambodia. Tricky to draw around the body of the light but got some laughs from the locals when doing it (i think they thought i was a bit mad!) The red and b
Speed sketching on my last morning in phnom penh; the alleyways around orussey market are amazing, i wish i had more time to sketch these spaces, people and activities. The really nice thing that found is that when sketching in this context, a small
One of the most amazing spaces i have been in; hiroshima house in phom penh. Hard to do the space justice with a camera, circulation wraps around and slices through a 4 level high canon; simple of use materials standard Cambodian brick and concrete.