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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I am LOVING sketching with ink and watercolour! The results are so immediate and fun!  I think I could sit and do this all day long Here are two that I did this week:  

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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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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 [...]

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