Out 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...
CONTINUE READINGA number of people have asked me for some tips on composition from sketchbook pages…. I think that rather than give a few ‘rules’ I would try to explain my thought processes for a few pages. So here are two spread from Saturday in the state they were when I got home. Often I have...
CONTINUE READINGJust another one of my title pages. It is a good challenge to think of something different each time….
CONTINUE READINGOne of the nice things about doing a big spring clean is coming across unexpected delights. This is one of them – my first attempt at travel journalling! Rewind the clock about 20 years: I was in my early days studying architecture (my writing not fully architectural-ized yet) and this is one of the...
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