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The Rocks - 2 Day Workshop October

October 10, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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For the last two days, I have been running a 2-day sketching workshop in the Rocks… and it seems that every time I teach it, I enjoy it more. I always have a good group – but the quality of the work and the connection between the participants and their work was extra special this...

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Summary of my Brazil Trip

October 6, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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Travel Sketching

I know the Brazil posts have been mammoth… so I thought it might be convenient to summarise them all in the one spot: Initial Reflections Two big ideas to develop which are opposite in a number of ways: 1. Shape over line 2. Architect over Painter And some other random thoughts (such as not using...

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First sketches(es) back home post Brazil trip

October 6, 2014 | 2 Comments
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I always love the experience of going out sketching the very first time after a big trip. Previously I would made my way to the T2 tearoom within the first 24 hours of my return but sadly that is now a tradition of the past. I am interested in the dialogue I have with myself...

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A day in Manly on a jazz festival day

October 4, 2014 | 4 Comments
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A lovely Spring September day to visit Manly with the USK Sydney gang. It is a bit of a hike to get there on public transport – train into the city and then ferry ride- well over 1.5 hours (only 40 minutes drive away) but it always nice to have a ferry ride across Sydney...

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Sketching in The Rocks again

October 2, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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Wow… a local sketching outing! It seems a long time since I had one of those…and it is a nice feeling (a GREAT feeling) to have the huge task of my Brazil posting completed (well almost!) Yesterday was not quite a ‘sketch outing’ – it was a work session. I needed to go into The...

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Brazil Trip: Last day in Sao Paulo - Lina Bo Bardi Day!

October 2, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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          My final day of my Brazil trip was a very special one… it was ‘an architecture moment’. I spent the day in the company of 3 other architects and we visited two works by Lina Bo Bardi (architect for the MASP building that headed the previous post). I really didn’t know anything about...

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