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Png:Sg Trip 06: Interlude - Thoughts on A Solo Sketching Day in Georgetown

January 20, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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Art Tips & ThoughtsTravel Sketching

Here is the combination of the sketches of my last solo sketching day in Georgetown which I will post in detail tomorrow morning. In many ways this was the most special of the sketching days for my whole trip…. not so much because the of work (today is so much better) but because of a...

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Png:Sg Trip 05: Markets, tea and colonialism

January 19, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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Travel Sketching

During supper the night before, KK had told me that I should visit the morning market and that there was a good tea place nearby. So naturally, I decided that that was a plan! The market was busy and crowded, and although I would have loved to sketch there,  I couldn’t find a spot where...

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New sketchbook: Great morning!!

January 18, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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Sketching Sydney

Really excited this morning … I just might have found a solution to my sketchbook crisis earlier in the week and also a general dissatisfaction with my day-to-day Sydney sketches I have had lately. Today I started an A4 water Moleskine sketchbook – the one that I love using when I am travelling but never...

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Png:Sg Trip 04: Day 2 Texture in Georgetown

January 17, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
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Travel Sketching

Contrary to what most people think, I am trying very hard to slow down. I have a natural spontaneousness and I am trying to find the optimum conditions so my work flows at the best pace. This is generally faster than most other artists I know – so when I say that I had a...

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Png:Sg Trip 03: Day 1 Exploring Georgetown on my own

January 17, 2014 | 2 Comments
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Travel Sketching

Day 1: Totally solo day exploring Georgetown Penang. It was a slow morning (sketching wise) but once I started… it turned out to be one of the most amazing sketching afternoons I have had. I really hadn’t done any research about Georgetown before going so I was reliant on being given a map and shown...

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Png:Sg Trip 02: The Adventure Begins

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Travel Sketching

OK here we go….I am starting the long task of scanning and posting about my recent trip to Penang and Singapore. To start with there are my two ‘trip prep’ pages and also my journey sketches… as usual, I sketched the art supplies that I took with me (and as usual this collection increased during...

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