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Sketching at the Trampolining Centre

It’s school holidays, we’ve moved house recently, and I’m working on one of my most important projects: connecting my kids with new local friends before school starts at the end of the month. Today… PLAY DATE.

For those who think they have mastered sketching people at the swimming pool (hysterical laughter) the next challenge is obviously to sketch at Gravity Zone, one of Melbourne’s trampoline play centres where children and the occasional energetic adult bounce around in a state of perpetual motion and happy exuberance. So I took my sketch materials to the play date.

One of the children vomited as I was watching, but I didn’t sketch that. Luckily it was not on a trampoline but in the café area…

Below are a few of the more finished sketches of the morning. (I notice that I was using the same book for sketching as the one I had used a year ago at Sorrento in the Christmas holidays. How tidy!)

Gravity Zone sketch 3

two boys getting ready to leap into the pit

Gravity Zone sketch 2

Hugo stopping to pant after much bouncing with a basketball

Gravity Zone sketch 1

a tweenager bouncing in a crop top

Gravity Zone sketch

a tweenager having an argument with a friend on the other side of the floor

Gravity Zone sketch 4

a Mum reading in the café

Gravity Zone sketch 5

Another mum reading in the café

You will, I’m sure, have noticed a striking and curious thing. Only one of the sketches actually depicts a person in mid bounce!

I have a lot of work to do to get up to sufficient speed.

 

 

Blob Doodles in Bed

I took some blobs to bed with me last night and a black felt tip. It being bed time when I painted my blobs, I wasn’t quite on the ball enough to remember to do them on watercolour paper so the paper has buckled and they lack the nice gravelly edges.

But it was a meditative and relaxing (but also kind of stimulating) thing to do, propped up by pillows in bed. Turning my page this way and that trying to find the hidden creature in each blob.

doodles composite levels judywatson lores

I found a few dogs who weren’t pleased with either their hairstyles or with each other. And one that has slipped on a banana skin.

wolfhound x poodle - whoodle judywatsonart lores

Whoodle (poodle x wolfhound)

beehive dog judywatsonart lores

Beehive Hound

bouffant dog judywatsonart lores

Bouffant des Flandres

bulldog judywatsonart lores

Bulldog

cranky dog judywatsonart lores

Bulldog’s buddy

wiry dog judywatsonart lores

Schnighlander – (Giant Schnauzer x West Highland White Terrier)

oops

oops

I found an overexcited squirrel.

Didn't quite work

Didn’t quite work

I found a princess escaping a fate worse than death, cloaked and riding on the back of a miniature elephant in the dead of night. (with faithful wire-haired miniature dachshund x schipperke – also known as a Whipperke-Dipperke)

princess on tiny elephant judywatsonart lores

I found a very surprised budgie on the head of a cranky sheep.

surprised budgie

surprised budgie

I found a frisbee catching dog who needs to see an orthopaedic surgeon about his front legs.

This will not end well

This will not end well

I found a pug in a bad mood. I think he’s trying to tell me something.

grrrr

grrrr

And I found a range of the usual birds and monstrosities.

rabbit-elephant judywatsonart lores

What the? Elephant x rabbit…

deer thing judywatsonart lores

So normal! What are you doing here?

bird of woe judywatsonart lores

Bird of Woe

bad tempered chick judywatsonart lores

This is the unmentioned chick from  ‘Owl Babies’   (‘I Want My Mummy… NOW!!!’)

goosy dodo bird judywatsonart lores goosey bird judywatsonart lores

And I found an overweight chick eating play lunch in the school yard.

munch, munch

munch, munch…. munch.

That reminds me, it’s lunch time.

I’ll add colour to some of these when I get a chance.