NEW PLYMOUTH, TARANAKI, NEW ZEALAND
New Plymouth is half way up the North Island on the left, in the green province of Taranaki. We look out on a symetrical dormant volcano, also called Taranaki (and called Mt Egmont).
Surprisingly our city recently won 'the world's most livable city award' for pop 20,000 - 70,000. We have a well patronised coastal walkway, and our millenium project was a large kinetic wind wand. Industries include dairy, and oil and gas. South of the city is the Surf Highway 45 around the mountain. If we look out to the Tasman Sea, Australia is about as far as LA is to Chicago.
Because the world's day starts with New Zealand, we have the privilege of sketching first, and of course the day is extra fresh as it hasn't been used up yet
Our sketchers normally post each week here http://taranakisketcher.springnote.com/pages/3442731
These are some of our sketchers who participated in Sketchcrawl day
Trevor
Liz
Scott
Jackie
Most of us started at 10am and gradually sketched our way up the main street, Devon Street, with a show and tell lunch at Petit Paris.
Devon Street scene above Kitchen shop Etcetera - Scott
Devon St West - between the trees - Trevor
Side door to Kina Gallery - NZ Design and art space, where we all first met.
Front of the Opera House - Trevor
Touring bikes from Palmerston North, the bikers were interested in where the final sketchcrawl postings could be seen - Scott
Expresso Cafe, where the bikers were inside watching us sketch - Trevor
View from the Huatoki Plaza towards the wind wand - Liz
The wind wand - a 45m kinetic sculpture
Waitara View - Jackie
2003 Land Rover Defender parked nearby - Scott
Porche, parked next to the Landy - Trevor
L'Escargot Restaurant, a former 1870 Bank Building - Scott
Side door to the Irish Peggy Gordons Celtic Bar - the band from last nights gig were getting their gear out and were interested in the concept of a sketch crawl as opposed to a pub crawl. The guy setting up the tables outside, left the door closed longer for me to sketch, and said he was going to get his pens out and start sketching again - Scott
Map of North Island - See New Plymouth half way down on the left
Love especially Devon St West, View from the Huatoki Plaza, Waitara View, L'Escargot Restaurant and Touring bikes.
