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110409 Starting a WC Moleskine again
Here is the first page... it is VERY strange to be using a different book and to be using a moleskine - over 2 years since I last used one. So much has happened in that time - generally and with my...
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Calling all Sydney Sketchers
this Saturday is the last sketchabout in the Botanic Gardens AND it is also an international sketchcrawl day... Our plans are:Official meet up time will be 11am at the Opera House (in the middle of the...
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110414 A few more moleskine pages
More pages from my moleskine... although not my preferred orientation I AM starting to enjoy the change.All these three sketches were rushed - wish I had had a little more time for them.Enjoying using...
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Sketchcrawl 31 AND Sketchabout 6 (final)
A great but extremely wet sketchcrawl today - here are the first installment in the morning. Done in my moleskine.Second half of my sketchcrawl sketches - the final sketchabout in the Botanic...
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110416 Photos from Saturday's Sketchcrawl
Thanks to Jennifer for these photos.I always seem to be surrounded by lovely thing - plants in the Tropical Centre or tea cosies at Tara Tearoom!Thanks to Jennifer and Mike for these photos.I was...
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110418 Monday's sketches
Guess whose bestest sketching friend from Scotland has arrived in Australia for a holiday and guess who sketched people at the airport while others were watching her.And guess who is excited about...
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110421 New friends at T2
Another special visit to T2 - the waiter who kindly got some Grand Yunnan just for me last week suggested a new tea and gave me some new cups. Then I met a new waiter (who mistakenly thought I would...
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110422 Easter at Home!!
Hard to believe but I am not going away or trying to do lots of crazy things this Easter... I am actually going to TRY to relax.So what better way than a sleep in and SLOW teacup sketch to start my...
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110423 Tea Cosies coming out my ears!
Sorry about the repetitive nature of my sketches today... but you are all used to my obssession with sketching tea and tea related subjects.Today was the first Saturday for 7 weeks that I didn't need...
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A new collective blog about sketchbooks
If you haven't come across this yet- please check out Enrique Flores's great new blog http://www.cuadernistas.com/It is mainly in Spanish so I don't understand a word of it... but who cares...lots of...
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My Sketchabout Sketchbook in full
Open publication - Free publishing - More australiaSo here it is - a sketchbook full of garden sketches! Quite a different range of subjects from my usual - though I did manage to fit in one sketch of...
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110426 Easter Tuesday
Due to ANZAC falling on Easter Monday we had a Easter Tuesday holiday this year.Took Eza to two of my favourite sketching destinations - Cockatoo Island and T2 today! Great day!!!Here is Eza's great...
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The Paginated Garden Exhibition
Photos from tonights opening of the Paginated Garden - 16 invited book artists, 4 sketch artists (us) and 30 sketches from the sketchabout. It was a fabulous evening!The Gang - Wendy, me, Annie,...
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110429 Hawksmoor's Towers...
of Westminster Abbey.Believe it or not I had started to read a book of Hawksmoor (one of my favourite British architects) a few weeks ago and was planning to sketch this.The fact that there was a...
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Everyday in May
Please join us for a month of drawing daily.....We are going to be working through the everyday matters list No. 101-131. More information here (thanks to Wendy...
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EDiM 02 Draw a power plug
...now what has tea got to do with a power plug?How many of this month's challenges can I twist to relate to tea? I wonder? Please join us for a month of drawing daily.....We are going to be working...
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110502 Work Day Trip to Melbourne
a long and tiring trip to Melbourne to measure up some buildings... good opportunity to sketch on the plane....downback
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EDiM 03 Exercise?
Firstly, there is no good reason for the sudden appearance of a tea cup sketch on today's spread except that I am feeling a bit frazzled and somehow cup sketches are soothing.Secondly, I am approaching...
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EDiM 04 Salt and Pepper shakers
Jacqueline, the lovely owner of this cafe, might understand my love of Taylors of Harrogate Earl Grey tea(see here), but not sure she quite sure about our desire to draw the best looking salt and...
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110505 T2 high tea with Eza
Didn't get a chance to do my EdiM today...but did have high tea this evening!!! We took the cake plate off the cake stand and sat in on the sofa between us to sketch. ...ate the turkish but brought the...
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