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The story of my red lines: pencils, setup lines and early work
This week and next we are looking at setup in my Foundations online class. Setup seems to be a very contentious issue as there are lots of advocates for an ink-only approach! While I have a great...
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Regents St Mortuary Station
Last Saturday was the last USK SYD event for the year and despite my current workload decided to get out and enjoy some sketching just for me. We were meeting on Regents St outside the Mortuary...
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Red ink lines
As a follow up to my recent post where I shared the story of my red lines, and because I have recently received a box of all the new De Atramentis Document Inks I thought I would try using red ink for...
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SketchingNow Adventure: Parramatta and Harris Park
This week for the last of my SketchingNow Adventure this year, I headed to Parramatta. It marks a half way point in the metropolitan area and is located at the point where the Parramatta River becomes...
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The Flower Tribute
I visited Martin Place today to sketch the huge field of flowers that has sprung up in response to this weeks tragic events in Sydney - at the Lindt Cafe in the very heart of the city It was an...
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Sketching with International Visitors
One of the great things about the Urban Sketchers community is that when you travel you can meet up with local sketchers. We don't get that many international visitors here in Sydney but this week we...
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Recent Sketchbook Pages
I just haven't had the time to keep my blog up to date lately and feel like I haven't been doing much daily sketching lately... but putting this blog post together has proved that even when I am 'not...
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Ink and Pen Pairing
I am having so much fun with the new De Atramentis Document inks. Not only mixing colours that suit me but also finding pens to put these colours in. I have a crazy collection of fountain pens some of...
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Holidays!!
Being your own boss is tough… I don't know when I last worked till 23rd Dec (in the days of an office job we always knocked off on the Friday before Xmas). Not doing anything special this year except...
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Merry Christmas!
I don't really 'DO' Christmas - this year is first time in 3 years I am home and able to spend the day with my family (normally I am traveling on my own somewhere).However, I do love sketching...
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Christmas Eve Urban Sketching with coloured inks
I had decided a few weeks ago that if I got my work done I would spend Xmas Eve chilling in a nice cafe. With the forecast of morning showers and a visiting Urban Sketcher in town, I managed to do this...
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A few quiet days - Christmas 2014 and a few references to cricket
It is not a 'real' sketchbook until I have done a 'at home' cuppa sketch hey? Just enjoying the feeling of being on holidays (vacation) which for me equals the chance to sketch as much as I want to and...
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Seeing the old year out quietly…
It is 10.30pm NYE here in Sydney. I am just about to make a late cuppa and sit down and flick through these books…. my collection of 2014 sketchbooks.19 completed - 6 still in use. This was a really...
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Cockatoo Island 'Adhoc' USK SYD
It has been lovely to have a few visiting USKers in Sydney lately and to have a few 'adhoc' casual meetings. Giving people only 1 day's notice at this time of year is a little outrageous so it was...
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2014 Sketchbook Details and my 2015 ABM Planner
As promised here are the details of the sketchbooks I used in 2014.It was a year of change for me in that:1. I moved from an A5 portrait format sketchbook to a landscape version which was larger and...
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My first sketch for 2015!
Normally by day 3 of a new year I have done many pages but this year I have had a few great productive days working instead.This is my gold cup that I haven't sketched for years because it went...
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More about sketching with coloured ink
Another tea cup sketch late last night and once again playing with different coloured inks (among other things). It is strange how I sometimes feel guilty drawing teacups over and over again but often...
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Seven Coloured Ink Sketch (or was it eight?)
I seem to be loading up a different fountain pen with a new colour of the De Atramentis Document Ink every day ... yesterday it was a mixed light green (I wanted it to be lighter) and a mixed magenta...
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SketchingNow Adventure: Balmain
Today I started my SketchingNow adventures again - this week it was Balmain. For various reasons, the high temperature of the day being a important one, I didn't make a full day of it and in fact, only...
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My Brazil Sketchbook
It is hard to believe that I never got around to finishing off my Brazil postings... so finally here is all my sketching combined together in one!It seems like a long time ago but when I (digitally)...
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