Sketchy Details – An Artist’s tour of France – Book Giveaway!

October 13th, 2012 § 7 comments § permalink

The winner of the book is: Post 3 – Kat Lardner, posts 6 and 4 (Amanda and UKViewer) win a full set of greeting cards each! CONGRATULATIONS!

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This time last year I was mid-flight somewhere over the Middle East, basking in the afterglow of two weeks spent travelling around France. I have no idea where the 12 months have gone! It seems like yesterday that I was wandering through Monet’s gardens, and there’s barely a week that goes by when I don’t drift off into wistful daydreams of being drawn into the magic and romance of living in Paris. Sigh.

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La Parisienne

While we travelled I filled a couple of Moleskine sketchbooks with watercolour jottings of the things we saw and experienced. Looking back over the pages now brings sights and sounds and smells flooding back.

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My book Sketchy Details – An Artist’s Tour of France was born out of these pages.

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Since I can’t go back to France just yet, I thought I’d celebrate the one year anniversary of my trip by giving away a copy of my book and a couple of sets of the greeting cards I created from my French adventure paintings.

What I’m giving away: one copy of my book. Two full sets (8 cards each) of French Adventure greeting cards

How to enter: leave a comment on this post (one per person please)

Closing date: 6pm Saturday 27 October 2012 (AEST)

The winners will be selected randomly (using randomizer.org) and winners announced on the blog.

Good luck!

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EDM #8 :: draw your watch

October 10th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

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Hidden Chambers

May 27th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

Hidden chambers

This journal piece was done as a response to an exercise in a book that I’m starting to read called The Artist’s Rule – Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom by Christine Valters Paintner. It’s a 12-week ‘course’ that I’ll probably work through over the next couple of months. This particular exercise involved thinking about our inner lives as a castle with hidden rooms and passages. This sketch represents for me, the hidden corridors and locked chambers that I have yet to explore.

 

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New Zealand sketchbook!

April 25th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

We just spent a week mountain biking and adventuring in New Zealand. It definitely wasn’t long enough and I definitely want to go back again…..but in the meantime I had a blast riding, adventuring and recording our adventures in my sketchbook. Take a peek…:)

 

 

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Good Friday Meditation

April 6th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

I love to use art as a worship tool…as a way to bring focus as I meditate.

I am not a part of an organised church at the moment, so today I celebrated Good Friday by preparing a Eucharist meal for myself, lighting a candle, and meditating on scripture as I painted.
This is a picture I saw in my half awake, half asleep state this morning.

19-2012 // Good Friday meditation

The colours move from black to red to orange to yellow, symbolising our move from sin through redemption, rebirth and restoration.

20-2012 // Good Friday meditation

I found that the collection of sensory elements was incredibly powerful. A way to engage and focus. An incredibly powerful mode of worship.

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Take these broken wings

March 12th, 2012 § 2 comments § permalink

This morning I found a dead butterfly when I was out for my walk. I thought it might be fun to try a new style of painting and compare it to my usual style. My usual style involves inking the outline and then filling with watercolour. I have never done a watercolour without ink lines before, so I decided to give it a go. I penciled in a very light outline and then went for it. I found that the ink-less drawing took much longer, although I’m not entirely sure why…I think perhaps I left the layers to dry longer, to make sure nothing bled together. I am thinking I like my usual style better….it feels more like me…

The top one is the experiment…the bottom one is my usual style… which do you prefer?
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usual style with ink outline

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Lovely Legs – ACEOS

March 10th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

I think I’m addicted!

I love socks…almost as much as I like shoes. I wear thigh-high rainbow socks when I mountain bike in winter…just because I like to be a bit kooky…and I love that mountain biking is kooky enough for me to get away with it 🙂

These tiny little pieces of art the size of a playing card the are ultimate in being able to carry them around in my bag and create something wonderful in not a lot of time. What fun! Art Card Editions and Originals (ACEOs) are 2.5 x 3.5″ and can be traded or sold. They can be displayed singly or as a collage. An affordable and versatile way to start your original art collection.

I have just listed these beauties in my freshly launched Etsy shop. There are some prints of these on the way too.

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Camping at Gillard’s Beach, Mimosa Rocks NP,NSW

January 29th, 2012 § 2 comments § permalink

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 time together roughing it by the ocean.

On Saturday morning one of our friend’s little girls came screaming down to the beach in tears after making a trip to the primitive bathroom facilities. She said that she had seen a dragon. We didn’t think much of it…and chalked it up to the furtile imagination of a seven-year-old girl…until we went back up to the tents and came face to face with a family of lace monitors.

 

 

8-2012 // lace monitor

 

They are BIG lizards … as long as a medium sized dog, but with short stubby legs. She HAD seen a dragon! The family of dragons, so far as we could tell, consisted of two adults and a juvenile, and they wandered lazily past our campsite a couple of times a day in search of the sunny spots on the cliffs.

As a child my mum used to read me may Gibbs’ Snugglepot and Cuddlepie stories and for a long time I have wanted to have a go at drawing a banksia pod. Here’s what I came up with:
7-2012 // banksia pod

 

I had hoped for some time early this morning to draw a family of blue wrens that I observed as I wrote my morning pages, but instead I was visited by the sweet Miss Emily who scared the birds away, but who was so interested in my paints and pens that I simply couldn’t resist her charms. Here’s the drawing that we created together.

 

9-2012 // my little friend Emily

 

I love the excitement of little minds playing with pretty colours and seeing how paints mix and swirl together. Perhaps she was a reminder to nurture my own inner child artist.

 

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Making Progress – A sketcher’s tour of France

January 10th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

The Parisian woman

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 start on the tedious task of high res scanning my journals so that I have print-ready images to share 🙂

I cannot tell you how excited I am that I am working on this project! 🙂

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more practising and a couple of others

September 11th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

Figuring out how my paints behave on the Moleskine watercolour paper is fun!!
53-2011 // choosing my palette

learning how to do maps and freehand lettering…
53-2011 // practicing maps and lettering

Crap photo…but practising buildings…
54-2011 // chateau practice

Sketches during worship this morning…
56-2011 // church today

57-2011 // foreign territory

Loving that I am making time to draw so much. 🙂

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