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 [...]

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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.

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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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I am thinking I’ll take a watercolour Moley to France later in the year as my travel journal, so I decided to do some experimenting today…here are the somewhat less than stellar results! Adapting to the new page shape is an undexpected challenge too!

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I love spending lazy Sunday evenings with friends What better way to celebrate than with a drawing The colour behind the food was supposed to be “redder” I don’t like the way the sketchpaper in the Molekskines takes colour. Will almost definitely be taking a watercolour Moley to France later in the year.

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

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Over the past couple of days I have been adding watercolour to the sketches I did over the course of our Tasmanian camping holiday. This little doodle was done quickly this morning with my Lamy Zebra fountain pen to fill the last little bit of my 3-page morning writing quota. I haven’t scribbled with my [...]

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I’m on holidays at the moment…you can tell I’m on holidays because I completely forgot to blog the first couple of drawings I did for the year so here they are I’m just about to head off for a trip to Tasmania and plan to do LOTS of sketching…so you can look forward to a [...]

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