Queens Birthday Weekend Saturday
A very busy Saturday…
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Vivid Sydney 2011
June 10, 2011 | Leave your thoughts
You know, I LOVE Sydney… Hey, I think that you do indeed know that. For the third winter in a row, there has been a light festival called Vivid where the Opera House and other buildings are lit up and all kind of interesting light sculptures are installed around the city. The last two years...
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Trip Prep 08: Trying something for the 2nd time (a third is needed!)
Here is a quick sketch of a view in Murano that I really struggled with at the time. I was sitting in the hot sun and looking into it. I was SO unhappy with the painting of my sketch that I wanted to try again. Fell into the same trap tonight but it was SO...
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Trip Prep 07: Palette Planning Update
June 10, 2011 | Leave your thoughts
Can you tell I LOVE doing pages like this one??? The only question mark is Quin Burnt Scarlet… So my question for you is… What special colour of yours am I missing ?? I do realise that I am asking for trouble – I might not be quite strong enough in resisting the temptation of...
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Food and Murano Take 3
June 10, 2011 | 2 Comments
I made the decision last night to move my food diary to my daily sketchbook and incorporate it in with other things in my life. So today at lunchtime I tried Murano again…(obviously a different photo reference – I think that I am a lot better with individual buildings rather than scenes…) Hoping to do...
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Trip Prep 06: The colour of the sky
More fun with paints…. I remember Wil Freeborn saying he used Cobalt Blue for the sky in Scotland. I thought that a little strange as ‘the sky’ is more Cerulean – little realsing how differnt the colour is in Australia. So I only really use Coblat when I am overseas…. so big question… can cobalt...
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