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The books I am reading and the moment - and some visual notes

February 3, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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  A summary over two spreads of a book I read/ explored/ looked at over my summer break. To explain – the book is filled with original designs (sketches, catalogues, sample books) grouped in different periods each with a small note explaining it. The content is fairly random but as it is mainly drawings is...

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Europe09: Index of all my articles

February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments
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Travel Sketching

I thought I would put together a single post with links to all the days of my trip as an easy way of looking at it all. So Here Goes: Trip Prep Sketches Sketches and decisions I made in preparation for my trip to Europe in Sept/Oct 09 are here 4 Weeks in the UK...

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Visiting Taronga Zoo and Balmoral Beach

January 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
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     Not only do I need to draw people – but I want to be able to draw animals better – so I became a member of the Zoo (Taronga Zoo, Sydney,) and went for 1.5 hours this afternoon. Not really there long enough to get into the swing of sketching fast moving animals....

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A nice gum tree and a plastic plant

January 29, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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  A quick 15min sketch at the park closest to work. A lovely warm day …it was so nice to get a short does of sun! Finally an EDM challenge – I only have done one since November last year!!!! I think I will try to do some more this year… couldn’t bear to start...

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Sennelier palette and my first Daniel Smith colours!

January 27, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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  So back in November, I ordered my first selection of Daniel Smith paints. This article is a collection of a series of pages from my sketchbooks exploring the new paints and comparing with WN and Sennelier.     Been waiting for the Aus dollar to become stronger against US to buy some Daniel Smith...

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Australia Day Part 2

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The rest of Australia Day… shock horror we didn’t have a BBQ and I didn”t sketch any food. All that I had time for was a quick sketch of the latest Star Wars model. My dad is continually making simple abstracted models of Star Wars ships for my 5 year old nephew- this is the...

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