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Manly Sketching Class: Week 3 - Value

May 22, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Week 3 – Value We had another fun day today in Manly … with some very important concepts to get our head around. Achieving good values in your sketches is essential and training the eye to see colour as value and to make decisions on value when out on location is a lot of fun!!?!...

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Everyday in May this year!

May 21, 2013 | Leave your thoughts
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Everyday Sketching

A little late…but I am IN! Everyday in May starts today for me! EDiM15 Draw a pencil … well maybe I got carried away. I am doing what I told my class today they had to do – work out how their watercolour pencils come out dry and wet and mixed. On the left is...

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Why Blogging is an important part of my creative journey

May 17, 2013 | Leave your thoughts
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There is a lot I could write on this subject… but this week I was reminded of this fact during my preparation for my sketching class – we were looking at lines and the interface between colour and line (ha! I can’t just look at line without thinking about colour can I???). In going through...

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Updated basic palette (and Australia sky blue)

May 16, 2013 | 1 Comment
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I made a slight change further to my post the other week on a basic palette of 12 colours… And if you missed it- the actual palette I am using at the moment is slightly different – refer here   slightly modified from the other day- out goes the Winsor Blue Red and in comes...

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Manly Sketching class: Week 2 - Lines and Edges

May 15, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Another fun day with my class sketching in Manly. We had the MOST glorious May day today and ended up down at the beach sketching. Hard to believe that the supposed start of winter is only a few weeks away! I am wishing that all my readers can have a day like we had!! Maybe...

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How my lines have changed?

May 14, 2013 | Leave your thoughts
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I am really loving all the preparation for my sketching class in Manly… in particular, I have been going through my work and seeing threads and developments and evolving ideas and techniques (sometimes recurring themes I was not aware of). Today we will be looking at lines. What often strikes me now when I look...

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