I should have spent a week over the Christmas break doing a big summer clean..but I went away instead. Changing the angle on my drawing board last week has had a huge knock on effect over two rooms… after 2 weeks of spending my evenings working hard at it I have achieved much but with...
CONTINUE READINGAnother one in the series… Can you believe it…TEA COSY!!!! Another good quality tea. Whilst black interiors look very sharp – they are not my favourite to paint… This is part of my review of the earl grey tea that is on offer in cafes in Crows Nest Sydney. The rest of the series is...
CONTINUE READINGI just decided that I needed to put together all the sketches I did from 4 wonderful visits to Borromini (Bear)’s favourite Borromini (the architect) building – mine too! San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (San Carlino) It really is an amazing building – I kept turning up close to the middle of the day...
CONTINUE READINGOut of character? A ‘raw’ liz sketch…just the outline. One of the reasons why I don’t feel like I have been sketching lately is that I am aiming for early nights and most of my week night sketches occur post 10.30pm… a thing of the past now!!!! I have to get out at lunch...
CONTINUE READING….a pencil sketch of one of her very special bears (she had a few growing up – not like me who didn’t get my own bear till 3.5 years ago!) This is Cola Partesian Bear – CPB for short. His name is a kind of a spoonerism on Polar Cartesian (my sister named him Cola...
CONTINUE READINGI am spending as much time as I can these days in the Sydney Botanic Gardens (I will explain why in a week or so) and have started a separate sketchbook for my garden sketches. Here are a few that I did on Saturday – it wasn’t the most pleasant day… I find high humidity...
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