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Sketching Sydney: The Rocks and Millers Point

December 28, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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Sketching Sydney

I am one happy sketcher this evening! I had a great day out with the USK SYD day AND I actually got some sketching done! Normally I spend so much time chatting to friends and meeting new people at USK SYD events that I find it hard to settle down to do a sketch for...

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Summer Break 2015: Boxing Day Family Day

December 26, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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Everyday Sketching

What was I thinking yesterday? Was I really going to have more sketching time at my full family Xmas gathering? One of the great things about having our Xmas Day on Boxing Day is that there is cricket on the radio (and TV). I loved hanging out with my older nephews (8 and 11) today...

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Summer Break 2015: Christmas Day - Bondi beach, gingerbread and Palladio

December 25, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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I don’t make a fuss about Christmas, but it is a good chance to spend time with family, if we’re all around. Hmm, I am normally the only one that is away at this time of year! Anyway, this year we are having two very low key family days – on the 25th and Boxing...

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Summer Break 2015: Hard or Soft?

December 24, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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Everyday Sketching

As much as I would love to have a total ‘hard’ break from work between Christmas and New Year, I know that is not an option. I still have to be around to maintain some things and I don’t want to have the usual big scanning and posting burden after a holiday/vacation. So this year...

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Fountain Pen Sketching: Behind the scenes

December 23, 2015 | 38 Comments
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Just when you thought I had finished with fountain pens and would move onto another topic… I pull another blog post out of the hat! But I felt that I needed to put this together as a way of winding down from the excitement and obsession of the last six weeks. Yes, this current series...

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Fountain Pen Sketching Part 7: Pens with variable lines 2

December 22, 2015 | 43 Comments
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  Welcome to the final part of my current series of Fountain Pen Sketching where I will be sharing about my second favourite pen and much more! If you missed it, in Part 6, I introduced the types of pens which give some good line variation and looked specifically at flex nibs and brush tip...

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