Wordless Wednesday #3

January 22, 2014March 22, 2014 | Anna Cull

Shoot it, Sketch it: Wellington Harbour

January 20, 2014June 11, 2020 | Anna Cull

Wellington Harbour – acrylic on canvas, 455 x 610 mm, 2014. SOLD

Wellington Harbour — edited photograph (left), 2013 and original photograph (right), 2008

Today’s painting was inspired by my photograph of Wellington Harbour on a sunny, summer afternoon originally posted here. I also referred to the unedited image (prior to giving it the tilt-shift treatment and cropping it to remove the reflections from the hotel window) for some of the details.

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The way things are

January 18, 2014March 22, 2014 | Anna Cull

Christchurch, looking northeast, December 2013

Following on from yesterday’s pen vs earthquake post, here are a couple of aerial photographs showing the location of three more buildings from the series. I’ve included Cathedral Square for context. Click on the photos for a closer look.

I wish I had a ‘before’ photo to show you that the landscape in these photos is just plain wrong ― beige and boxy and wrong…

Christchurch, looking southwest, December 2013

The Church is fine (pen vs earthquake)

January 17, 2014March 22, 2014 | Anna Cull

Built in 1881, the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church was one of the many buildings conspicuously absent from the landscape when we flew over Christchurch last month. I’ve circled the relevant piece of dirt in the photograph below (click on the photo for a closer look). The building was badly damaged by the September 2010 earthquakes and then completely collapsed in the February 2011 earthquake. It was famous for having a sign out the front which read: “Our building is cracked, the Church is fine!” Although the neoclassical structure (an unusual style for Christchurch) is not going to be rebuilt, there are reports that the damaged Oamaru stone is to be used in a sculpture ― what a wonderful way of honouring the spirit and tenacity of its congregation.