From my dear friend Alissa Duke. I can’t put into words how special this card is!! The bear loves it too and is impressed by the perfect likeness. Thank you Alissa!!! (sorry about the poor scan – the card is a lovely cream colour and the colours more intense – done at work on the...
CONTINUE READINGperhaps I should be packing rather than sketching…but I can’t help it!!! Tomorrow night (final sleep) is the day for that… tonight was collecting everything. After living out of the contents of my suitcase for 11 weeks last year I know how to fit it all together…it is finding the stuff that is the challenge!!!(now...
CONTINUE READINGwhy take a photo of your sketching kit when you can sketch it??? (I think I need to slow down before I go away…one advantage of living down under is that the flights are so long that it forces me to chill!!!)
CONTINUE READINGStarted my trip Vol 1 book… the idea is to blur the edges and carry some of my normal life with me overseas…. I have felt a little scared to start it as I have been scribbling a lot lately and it is strange to try to do ‘neat’ pages again… Been thinking about...
CONTINUE READINGok here it is… for such a pigment nutter as I am, it is a bit shocking that I have a few colours that are not single pigment…and that one of those is the burnt sienna colour!! Shocking. Just for the record, I really don’t know all the pigments by number(PR 101 is the only...
CONTINUE READINGMaps from my first visit to London in 2000. Drawn with felt pen on tracing paper, copic markers to underside of tracing paper then stuck on (crookedly!) to white paper and into a black paper photo album. Hmmm… I like these maps very much – the use of colour and the 3D components...
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