This past weekend we had the unexpected pleasure of camping with a family that have been friends of ours since before we were married. We have been through a lot together, but of late, life’s stages have meant that we haven’t seen a lot of each other. So…we jumped at the chance to spend some [...]

Tags: art, childhood, ink, moleskine, portrait, Visual Journal, watercolour
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A Parisian woman watches on I’ve been back from France now for almost three months and finally I can say that I am making progress on my book! Yay! I have finished the actual travelogue part of my journals, and I’m working on approximately 30 supplementary sketches to fill out the second Moleskine. Today I [...]

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Figuring out how my paints behave on the Moleskine watercolour paper is fun!! learning how to do maps and freehand lettering… Crap photo…but practising buildings… Sketches during worship this morning… Loving that I am making time to draw so much.

Tags: art, edm, faith, God, ink, moleskine, pen, Visual Journal, watercolour, worship
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One of my architectural practice pieces for the trip… I’m too excited to keep this a secret any longer! I have been inspired by the beautiful Blurb books created by Liz Steel showcasing her urban sketches and adventures with Borrmini, that I am thinking that I will create a Blurb book of my own from [...]

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It’s been quite a while since I did a “proper” drawing. It was nice to slow down and work on this one over the last couple of months. 4 x 6″ Graphite on W&N Bristol Board

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Here are a couple of drawings from the last couple of weeks…

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Tibby, Harry and Herb are now finished and will be making their way to the client in the next day or so.

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I’m sitting here procrastinating about writing an assignment that is supposed to talk about solving the Synoptic Problem, all the while fretting about the support agreement that I am supposed to be writing when I get back to work next week (I’ve never written one of those before). I’m procrastinating because I’d much rather be [...]

Tags: art, Bill Peet, books, childhood, Gnomes, inspiration
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