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Melbourne Sketches - Part 1

May 12, 2015 | Leave your thoughts
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Travel Sketching

             I am finally getting around to posting my sketchbook from a recent trip to Melbourne, which I will share over three posts. On my return I wrote about Seven Reflections from this trip which you can read about here. I think the sketches speak for themselves, but if you wish to read more (including...

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Catching up on Every Day in May: EDiM 07 - 11

May 11, 2015 | 2 Comments
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I have been keeping up with the sketching, but not the posting of the daily challenges. And I apologize in advance that I have somehow got muddled with the numbers. So here we go.   EDiM 07 An envelope I left this till too late in the day and was rushing. It didn’t help that...

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An Update on My Sketchbooks

May 9, 2015 | 4 Comments
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I thought it was time to sort my sketchbooks out… so here is the updated photo. Feels good to have them in some sort of order. Note: The A4 size books to the right of the red spine one on the second shelf are ones that are currently in use. I seem to have a...

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Pointless Perspective - a practical approach to perspective for sketchers

May 8, 2015 | 7 Comments
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As you all know, I am an architect by profession and as such know a lot about buildings. I was trained to produce drawings that describe a building in such a way that it could be built from them – technical construction drawings. I also learnt as a student, how to draw 3D projections of...

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EDiM06 Something with bristles plus a sketch of my desk

May 6, 2015 | 6 Comments
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Well it is only 6 days into the month and the daily challenge of Every Day in May is already becoming a challenge. It seems strange that I should find it a bit of a burden since I sketch nearly every day anyway… but to be honest it is. When I feel like I ‘have’...

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EDinMay: Something Hot

May 5, 2015 | 2 Comments
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Well, I promised you I wouldn’t do tea…so it had to be my hot roast dinner tonight. As something different, I did this with various inks – I used 5 different pens. This is the first time I have used multi-coloured inklines in a hot meal sketch and as I suspected it is a bit...

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