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Cuppa Tea Time: The Tea Salon

November 21, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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Teacup Sketching

Those that follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you will know that on Thursday afternoon, after my visit to The Grounds of Alexandria, I found myself at The Tea Salon in Westfield Pitt St Mall. A big day and it extended into the evening as well, so I needed a quiet moment for a cuppa....

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Sketching Sydney: The Grounds of Alexandria

November 20, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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Sketching Sydney

Any reputation I might have for being a top Sydney cafe-goer will be completely smashed by my admission that I went to  The Grounds of Alexandria for the very first time yesterday! Shock horror! The Grounds is arguably the top cafe destination in Sydney. I say ‘cafe destination’ because it is much more than just...

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Lightening my Load: How did I go?

November 19, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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Anyone who has been in an art-related conversation with me in the last 18 months has probably heard me say the phrase “I’ve got a blog post idea on that!” Indeed, I have lots of blog posts ideas and my list is growing all the time, but a lot of them involve quite a lot...

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Cuppa Tea Time: Postcard size yellow cup

November 18, 2015 | 3 Comments
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Teacup Sketching

  My blog posts in recent times are getting bigger than Ben Hur! I’m spending hours and hours putting each one together, and I know it takes you time to read my ramblings. So today I’m getting change the pace and just share a simple teacup sketch with you. This sketch is of my old...

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Sketchbook Review: Pentalic Aqua Journal compared with Moleskine Watercolor Notebook

November 17, 2015 | 4 Comments
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    Before I put my Norfolk Island sketchbooks away in my bookcase (will there be room?), I wanted to do some more controlled tests on the Pentalic paper to check my on-location assessment of how it worked. I also wanted to compare it with the Moleskine paper which is what I normally use. But...

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My Rosemary Brush collection

November 16, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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I have so many brushes to play with – more later!

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