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A night of colour mixing
On Tuesday night I went to the monthly meeting of the Ku-ring-gai art society. I didn't actually know who was speaking …. so you can imagine my surprise and delight to find out that it was all about...
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Looking at a gaudi creation
More BCN warmup - finally I tackle a Gaudi. I am doing this little series in the hope that it might help some people going to BCN who might be a little overwhelmed by the architecture - actually I...
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Thinking about dresses and pigments
Of course I can't have a sewing day (or a few sewing hours) without doing a sewing sketch - can I? Once again I am leaving it to the weather gets cooler before I start sewing. Last years dresses that I...
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More BCN sketches...
Here are my two pages from the last two days. I have been very busy but had started each day with a warmup of a BCN building and testing a few different paints (such as Daniel Smith Moonglow!)I much...
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How my lines have changed???
I am really loving all the preparation for my sketching class in Manly… in particular I have been going through my work and seeing threads and developments and evolving ideas and techniques (sometimes...
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Manly Sketching Week 2
Another fun day with my class sketching in Manly. We had the MOST glorious May day today and ended up down at the beach sketching. Hard to believe that the supposed start of winter is only a few weeks...
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Every Day In May
A little late…but I am IN! Everyday in May starts today for me! (it is funny because on previous years I normally have to give it up around day 15...this year I am starting at 15)EDiM15 Draw a pencil …...
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Updated basic palette
I made a slight change further to my post the other week on a basic palette of 12 colours...And if you missed it- the actual palette I am using at the moment is slightly different - refer hereslightly...
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Why Blogging is an important part of my creative journey
There is a lot I could write on this subject… but this week I was reminder of this fact during my preparation for my sketching class - we were looking at lines and the interface between colour and line...
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Catching up pn my EdiM
Oops .. I have neglected my blog for a few days...so to catch up (from today backwards)EdiM21Sorry - another paint theme EDiM. The last thing I bought was food but it is all eaten… so I had to go back...
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Manly Sketching Class- Week 3: Value
Week 3 - ValueWe had another fun day today in Manly … with some very important concepts to get our head around. Achieving good values in your sketches is essential and training the eye to see colour as...
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Friday night baroque????
Friday night Baroque… hold on a minute, it is only Thursday night!Yes… I am a little confused and in need of a bit of splashing paint around, a bit of scraping and a bit of scribbling with ink and...
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BCN planning meeting
BCN planning meeting!!! I am just SO excited that my two wonderful Sydney sketching friends Alissa and Chris are booked to go to the symposium as well this year. We had a catch up at T2 teahouse -...
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Mixing colours
Here is one of my blobby colour playing pages... it is loosely mapped out like a colour wheel... I am not going to tell you what the initials stand for...see if some clever person will be able to...
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Mixing paints with Jane
Had the most amazing time with Jane Blundell today - trying out all different pigments and going through alternatives to tighten up my minimum palette. Amazing to find someone who knows the options...
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My new palette - after colour mixing with Jane Blundell
Ok - here is my new palette - post colour mixing master class with total legend Jane Blundell http://www.janeblundellart.com/ (I can't put into words how great our session yesterday was - thanks again...
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Manly Sketch class Week 4 - Colour!!!
Yesterday was week 4 of my 8 week sketching course…and finally we got to use our watercolour paints!Putting together an 8 week course is a lot of fun for me - I am trying to provide a broad overview...
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Juicy vs wimpy
This is obviously Colour week for me!Just to follow up from what we were looking at this week in my class… here is a comparison (down very spontaneously and unplanned) comparing wimpy with juicy!and...
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USK SYD at Sydney Uni
A great day today with USK SYD at the main quad Sydney uni.I had fun trying out some of my new (new new or old and forgotten) Daniel smith paints and just experimenting. I have had a big week and this...
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Manly Sketching class- Week 5 Buildings
Today we did Buildings! At first I was going to call the class 'perspective' and then 'architecture' but in the end downgraded the title to the more friendly 'buildings'.My big idea today was...
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