Here is my version of the huge tribute for the tragic passing away of Philip Hughes this week. I am a big cricket fan – I never play it, but love watching it and listening to it on the radio. It is truly the sound of summer here in Australia, Christmas holidays, relaxing times...
CONTINUE READINGLast Friday I headed west – to the Blue Mountains for a day of exploring and sketching. It was a scorching day of 40C in Sydney but thankfully it was only a bearable 32C up in ‘the mountains’. The Blue Mountains are not technically mountains. they are a ‘dissected plateau’ with the settlement on the...
CONTINUE READINGWe were having a conversation about ‘high ceilings’ on the weekend and I said that I loved the low ceilings of Mid Century Modern houses – the sense of cosiness and expansion at the same time, connection with the outside, the clean lines. Why do we HAVE to have high ceilings? Anyway, that reminded...
CONTINUE READINGThe title says it all… my life is crazy at the moment and I have no time to blog and precious time to sketch. But I can always squeeze in a little time for a cuppa sketch after dinner….
CONTINUE READINGThe last two weeks have made me realise once again how much I love blogging and how important it has become to me as a crucial part of my creative journey. I have only missed a few days but the regular routine of blogging has stopped while I get the SketchingNow course into a...
CONTINUE READINGLast Friday I headed north to Palm Beach for my second SketchingNow Adventure. The week before I had gone south to Kurnell and Cronulla so I have now created the north and south boundaries of Sydney along the coast. Palm Beach represents the top of the Northern Beaches region and the beach is a isthmus...
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