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Tokyo String Quartet in Action

June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Everyday Sketching

Ok… I have been slack again but here is a post about Saturday night      On Saturday I went to a concert in the Sydney Recital Hall of the Tokyo String Quartet and intended to do a few sketches. This sketch I did before the performance started with the colour added during the programme. I...

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Watercolour Pencils: Flowers

June 15, 2009 | Leave your thoughts
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Flowers this week in Kate’s WC pencil class – so a quick Monday sketch. I find that I have to start the exercises early in the week or else I struggle to get through them all. No flowers in the garden much at the moment (we are in winter) and especially hard to find at...

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Watercolour Pencils: Water

June 12, 2009 | Leave your thoughts
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More from Kate Johnson’s class on watercolour pencils. These exercises are all about water… Doing a bit of research on how to draw waves and water…from Jack Hamm’s Book Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes. (I have just decided that I better start a tag for Jack Hamm!) It is amazing how much you learn when...

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Watercolour Pencils: Scottish Landscapes

June 6, 2009 | Leave your thoughts
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More landscapes done as part of Kate Johnson’s Watercolour Pencil course Not feeling up to much tonight but looking through some of my Scottish photo albums (I have 6 of them ie. I have been 6 times!!) and doing some quick WC pencil landscapes. WC pencils are more forgiving than plain watercolour. This one was...

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Watercolour Pencils: Various versions of the Three Sisters

June 3, 2009 | Leave your thoughts
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Three Sisters Take 1 Expect to be bombarded with lots of watercolour pencil sketches as I do the course… I do plan to upload a lot of all my exercises and experiments as well as the ‘assignments’ as I am trying to make all my scribble experiments into a journal page/ sketch. Here is one...

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Watercolour Pencils: Rocks, Trees and Landscapes

June 1, 2009 | Leave your thoughts
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More pages from Kate Johnson’s Watercolour Pencil class… Jack’s back!!! Just when you thought I would stop copying Jack Hamm… I have got out another of his books. This one is Landscape and Scenery and is brilliant!!! A quick sketch practicing my new watercolour pencil techniques. I am trying to work out how to get...

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