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Redfern Rooftops

This pencil sketch was done from the roof of the Flinders Street campus of The City Art Institute of Sydney in 1988.

An acrylic painting was made from the drawing too but I think the original pencil sketch was the better work.

City Art don't have that campus building any more and they changed their name too - a few times. They are now called COFA - College Of Fine Arts University Of New South Wales.

It used to be a routine, after finishing painting sessions at the Flinders Street campus to walk back to the Paddington campus via the Palace Hotel where there was a hole-in-the-wall type kitchen that served $1.50 beef and mustard bread rolls. That and a quick beer set us up for an afternoon of art Myth, Archetype and The Sublime.