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Trip Prep 20-22: People, balustrades, modillions and a sewing project

June 30, 2011 | Leave your thoughts
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Travel Sketching

  Trip Prep 20 People, 21 Balustrades and Modillions more trip prep total scribbles… got to regularly draw and paint people … otherwise they have a tendency to be disasters like top right. Drawing people is ESSENTIAL at a Usk symposium… I felt so out of place last year that I couldn’t confidently draw people...

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My sketching gear in my new bag

June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
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In response to comments about the amount of stuff in previous post… Items below the line I do not carry with me during the day. All stuff above the line are contained in the front 2 pockets of my new bag.

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Trip Prep 19: Getting my Art Supplies together

June 29, 2011 | 2 Comments
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I’m getting to some really fun stuff now! This was a useful page to do as it has forced me to find some of this stuff (my study/studio is in sewing room havoc mode at the moment!) I also filled my wonderful Visconti travelling ink pot and extra ink supply ( I don’t really need...

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A busy Saturday - preparing palette and a Noodlers Flex pen

June 29, 2011 | 1 Comment
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Catching up on what I did on the weekend…   2 weeks out … Time to get the palette ready and time for the Daniel smith paints to dry. The blank pan is the burnt sienna spot. Got to decide between quin burnt orange or quin sienna in the next few days. If you haven’t...

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Trip Prep 18 Compositional Fun

June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
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  Trying out a few different layouts for my opening spread for each day. I want to include more collage this year… so I have an idea of adding a strip of patterned paper to mark the start of the day. (paper from a Portugal tile pattern book I got last week – want to...

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Trip Prep 16 & 17: Music and Exhaustion

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ok… I am officially out of control trying to do way too much… or wanting to do everything. in the small gaps of time that I have between work during the day and evening sewing sessions I am trying to write emails, and sort some other things out that I like to do early. I...

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