Emily-Rose Alcock Art

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

One of my favourite things to do in the morning is to take my mini watercolour pad with me and sketch some illustrations of things I see whilst I’m drinking my wake up coffee. I usually sit near the fountain next to my local coffee shop.

I call this little sketch… “Pigeon Chaos” 😂

This sort of scene (although possibly a little exaggerated) is one I see quite often as they splash around in the fountain on a hot Australian day.

The pigeons dunk their heads into the water and flap their wings about. It’s quite the funny thing to watch.

Sketches like this are an important part of my daily ritual because they give me new ideas for larger paintings .

Drawing and painting makes me present. It takes my head out of my phone, away from my computer and into the real world. A world where I people watch, animal watch and day dream.

People are so much more approachable when their eyes are not buried in the reflection of technology aren’t they?

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