It’s finally time to wrap up this series containing all my sketches from my 2-week trip to Port Macquarie last November. So here goes…

The last visit to Shelly Beach was not what I hoped for. A hot and sticky morning with salty fog! Not pleasant at all. I started this sketch with some purple shapes and then layered over some oil pastel.

I then met up with my friend V for brunch at Banks and sketched a boat. (I was playing with opacity as I sketched the food!)

We then sat by the river and talked for 1.5 hours. I did this sketch almost entirely with Poscas. The only watercolour used was for the grey water. I was having a lot of fun creating texture with Poscas!

I had a little time to start packing and then visited Flynns Beach for the last time. I didn’t complete this sketch, but I like it as it is (and it is a good reminder of the steps I was taking!).

Dinner at V’s and then I sketched some of her teacups. It was an extremely humid evening and my watercolours were not drying!

I normally like to hit the road early when I have a 4-hour drive ahead of me, but I didn’t want to say goodbye to V, so we had one more cafe visit together.

Once again, I stopped at Bulahdelah and went for a bit of a walk. Two quick sketches and a discovery of a ‘new’ technique right at the end of my trip. I’ve been using this technique in my everyday sketches since I came home and will be talking about it during the first livestream (this week) inside my new Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon. I’ve also filmed a detailed sketchbook tour of all my pages from this trip, which is available inside the community.

Thanks for coming along with me on this very special break at Port Macquarie. I hope you have enjoyed seeing all my fun experiments and sketches of all those beautiful Port beaches. See them all here.