Don Donovan's World

Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 10 October 2012
Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 52. The Old Gardner Homestead, Glorit, New Zealand

There's nothing I enjoy more than drawing old, colonial houses. This one, north of Auckland, on the road from Helensville to Wellsford is one of the best and the only one I know of with a double roof. I was particularly pleased with the way this piece turned out - it's a good sketch even if I say it myself.

Later, I did a large, very large, watercolour of it which hung in the old Auckland Club for a long time. It's now leaning against a wall in my studio.

© DON DONOVAN. 

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