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EDIM 06 and 05
EDiM06 something tart or sour... you would expect this from me would you. The price of my sketching!!! Just when I was finishing it I thought of something which would have been fun to draw- sour...
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EDiM07 & 08 News and Bulb
Done this morning - having a lazy morning and I think it shows in my sketch. BOth of these are revisited- see below!Last years Edim 02Way back in 2008 - EDM 168 my daily newspaperThis is part of a...
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110507 Sydney's Best Portuguese Tart? Sweet Belem
Scones are out and Portuguese tarts are in... I wonder why?After some research, this afternoon I visited the cafe with the reputation of the best P-Tart in Sydney.. at Sweet Belem Petersham. It was...
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110511 Catching up on EDiM 09-12
done over the last three busy days....MONDAY: EDiM 09 A Clockextremely tired tonight- so very quick sketch. Planning ahead for tomorrow night (if I make it home from work at a reasonable hour)BTW - I...
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EDiM 13 and then EDiM Crisis!
Sketch done on Saturday afternoon - paper finished off today- on the right day.Challenging myself with a really green scene!Just when I thought I was cruising and not finding this daily challenge a...
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110514 A crazy plan for the day and reality....
After a quiet morning I had a fairly productive late afternoon- evening!
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Catching Up....
Two sketches from Thursday night which I didn't have time to finish at the time.. a cakeless visit to T2Friday:A quick escape and wee sketch on a crazy busy day
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A surprise postcard!
Due to my Postcard exchange with the Sketchercise group, Marni, a flickr contact, asked if she could send me a postcard. Well yesterday I received it in the mail at work! It certainly made my day-...
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Memories of Rome- Borromini's San Carlino
Not much sketching for me the last few days or for the rest of the week. Been a lot on my plate...one of which has been working hard to get a new blurb book ready. Just a wee 40 page book filled with...
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110525 Thinking about paint (and other things)
Ok... I made a mistake to say no sketching this week. I was so tired tonight that I had to have a break from Blurb-book making and do one of the most relaxing type of sketches.The heading of this...
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110528 A new colour- Cobalt Blue Deep W&N
A new colour 'thanks' to Robyn!!!Handprint site says about this"PB 74 Winsor & Newton cobalt blue deep is the most saturated of the paints listed here; it keeps its deep warm hue even when applied...
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110528 A busy busy day....
8:00pmHad a very busy day out today and wasn't feeling 100% - had a background headache so didn't have the usual drive to sketch madly all day. I got home at 7.30pm and this is the state of my pages....
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110601 Food Diary 2011 - Start Again
MONDAY:Ok - now that my blurb book is ALMOST finished - I am going to get back to a disciplined life and food diary is going into serious mode.I have just thought of a art-goal as well for this...
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A Preview of my NEW blurb book
I ordered the first copies for myself last night... if they are all ok I will go public with the book.The book contains a summary of our adventures with my sketchbook -- both random things of everyday...
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110603 Getting Ready for a new book
I can't help it... I seem to have the urge for late night sketching on Friday night. SO even though I really NEED to do something about at least 6 of the pans in my tin that I have hit the bottom... I...
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Trip Prep 04_Lisbon Red Roof Red
If you haven't already realized I hope to attend the 2nd International Urban Sketchers symposium in Lisbon in July. As such I am testing out the colours in my palette over the next few weeks to see if...
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books!!!
books!!!, a photo by borromini bear on Flickr.look what arrived today!!!There is at least one minor typo in the book that I need to re-do and a few formatting tweaks...then it will go public....
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My sketching diet - A weeks worth of food!
I have been VERY busy this week doing all kinds of things including (most of the time) sketching everything I eat as part of the Liz Steel special sketching diet... there is no doubt that as tedious as...
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Trip Prep 06 & 07_Palette Planning Update
More fun with paints.... I remember Wil Freeborn saying he used Cobalt Blue for the sky in Scotland. I thought that a little strange as 'the sky' is more Cerulean - little realsing how differnt the...
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Trip Prep 08 - Trying something for the 2nd time (a third is needed!)
Here is a quick sketch of a view in Murano that I really struggled with at the time. I was sitting in the hot sun and looking into it. I was SO unhappy with the painting of my sketch that I wanted to...
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