I’m a little bit behind with my visual journalling (like….a LOT behind) the days have flown by! I turned forty a couple of weeks ago, and only just managed to get a page done for it

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These two journal entries are from the day trip Al and I took a couple of weeks ago. I’m a bit slow getting things posted at the moment

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Sometimes writing and drawing is the best therapy. I did these scribbles at lunch the other day to even out and move on after a rough morning at work. The act of concentrating and drawing meshes well with prayer and meditation.

Tags: doodle, edm, faith, God, ink, lunch, moleskine, pen, therapy
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Each year I attend the Global Leadership Summit and take sketchnotes to help me remember the key points. This year I went for a sepia theme and used PITT artist pens. I added some watercolour during the week as I meditated on the notes and thought about how to apply what I learned. I didn’t [...]

Tags: church, doodle, edm, faith, God, ink, moleskine, pen, sketchnotes, watercolour
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Today we went out to take a look at the World Solo Championships 24 hour race (cross country mountain biking) and I took the opportunity to keep practising my quick and dirty sketching.  I added the watercolour when I got home. I discovered that bikes move faster than I can sketch

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Quick one from last night …. while I was waiting for my defrosted food to cook.

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I have come to the conclusion that I am in desperate need of some watercolour lessons I created this muddy mess after a family outing yesterday. Ah well…gotta start somewhere I guess

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I went for a ride yesterday and met with fowl play (te hehehehe)

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After a week filled with study and academics I treated my inner artist to a session of outdoor painting at Floriade. I haven’t done this in ages, and I’m absolutely no good at it. It’s a skill I want to develop! The boys took off to explore and I basked in the sun and tried [...]

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The other week we took the boys out to dinner at our favourite Japanese restaurant in the city. While we weren’t looking they loaded an innocuous looking mushroom with wasabi and asked Al if he wanted it (because they don’t usually eat them, so this was quite normal). After a couple of mouthfuls a strange [...]

Tags: doodle, edm, ink, lunch, moleskine, watercolour
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