The Taranaki Sketchers

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Our aim

To hone our travel sketching skills, by sketching around Taranaki
To remove limitations on our drawing
To provide encouragement, camaraderie and generally have fun

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Our philosophy:

* Owe no loyalty to a mark just because it is on a page NP_Clock_Tower_(Small).jpg

* Our heads are looking up more than down

* We like to trap light

* Seek a dash of 'care-free'

* Sketch to express & appreciate

* It is finished when you have 'said it' or the enjoyment goes

We are an accidental sketch group. When one who likes to sketch while travelling, heard that another also sketched, they approached them to see if they would be willing to draw on a regular basis. ie An incentive to practice between trips. From there it has been all word of mouth.

<-- Click on any of the pages on the left to see our progress. Have we improved?
Expeditions 2012-1 is the latest

Also view our Gallery here http://thetaranakisketchers.weebly.com/

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TARANAKI is a province of New Zealand, half way up the North Island, the bit that juts out on the left. Most of us live in New Plymouth, looking out on a splendid dormant volcano.

Jul is our long distance correspondent in Tauranga - the other side of the island.

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Where we've sketched so far:

St Andrews Church
Vicarage
Puke Ariki Museum
St Marys Cathedral
Spiegeltent
Gables
L'Escargot
Brooklands Zoo
Hooker Building (Frederic's)
TSB Bank
Kina Gallery
Port Taranaki
Pukekura Park
Marslands Hill Carillion
Mill Market
Rock Symposium - Foreshore & Te Kupenga
Stratford Glockenspiel
Inglewood
Stratford
Hurworth House
Te Henui Cemetery
Peggy Gordon's Celtic Bar
Fun Ho! Toy Museum
Rewa Rewa Bridge
Taranaki Aviation Transport & Technolgy Museum
Tranzrail yards
New Plymouth Yacht Club
Roebucks Crane Yard
Hen & Chicken Early Settler houses
White Hart Hotel
St Josephs' Church
Nice Hotel
The Big Wave Cafe
Puke Ariki Library
Fitzroy Pole
Waitara
Centre City Mall
Cape Egmont Lighthouse
Devon Street
Waitara Rowing Regatta

'Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. The artist does not spoil it by finishing it.' - Eugene Delacroix 1850 At least that's our excuse too :-)

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Feel free to be in touch via: thetaranakisketchers @ gmail.com

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