Joel Tarling's Fieldnotes

Amegilla cingulata   Blue Banded Bee , an Australian Native Bee. We recently had six of these little pollinators in our Marrickville gard...

Illustrated Alphabet of Australian animals, pen and ink

Stonemasons building the Papal Palace , Avignon This drawing is based on a model I saw last year in France at the Palais des Papes (Papa...

Arthur Barton and Fred Schweickle painting "The building of Luna Park" mural. Coney Island This drawing was inspired after wat...

Louisa Lawson printing  The Dawn  on an old press at her cottage.   The Dawn  was Australia's first female-produced journal, publish...

I couldn't decide, so it's two drawings this week... While watching a documentary "Federation: Australia's journey to na...

  "It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up ...

The big day for a young Shearwater

Morning walks with Eileen Scollay Childhood memory from the South Coast in the 1980's. Morning walks with Eileen Scollay, a great fa...

Childhood memory of Rowville  in the 1980's. Climbing over the farmers fence with Grandpa to pick mushrooms for dinner. I was scared ...