I was doodling while I was on the phone and came up with this. It’s definitely the most interesting thing in my calendar Sitting in the car waiting while Shel had his drum lesson…I tried to journal, but the words didn’t want to come…but I found I could draw. So I grabbed a croquis and [...]

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Quick scribble in my watercolour Moleskine to see how the paper behaves differently to the pages in the sketchbook Moleskines. I like the way it takes the colour! The think, rough paper really soaks up the colour. I had a rough time with he watercolour beading up on the sketchbook paper, so this lovely new [...]

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My family and I have just returned from a camping holiday around Tasmania. This is my first attempt at capturing snippets of my holiday in my sketch journal. I enjoyed the process a lot, and learned that I really should take some lessons to learn to handle watercolours better. The sketches reside in my beautiful [...]

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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 [...]

Tags: doodle, faith, God, ink, mindmap, moleskine, pen
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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.

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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 [...]

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