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Category Archives: sketchaday
Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 6: The world offers itself to your imagination
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, art, Banff, blogs, cafes, Canada, clouds, composition, drawing, eagles, holidays, imagination, indigo, journals, Juniper hotel, lakes, landscapes, life drawing, magpies, Mary Oliver, monochrome, mountains, Mt Begbie Brewery, mule deer, pencil, poetry, Revelstoke, Rogers Pass, sculpture, sepia, snow, squirrels, trails, travel, trees, watercolour, wild geese
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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 5: Time to stand and stare
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. William Henry Davies My kind of holiday is having the opportunity to absorb a landscape, without being rushed from one country to another, or … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, birds, blogs, Canada, clouds, drawing, eagles, holidays, indigo, journals, landscapes, memory sketches, mountains, poetry, snow, squirrels, travel, watercolour
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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 4: Training my Memory
I have always tried to keep a diary when on my travels, as I find it very hard to recall the day to day happenings. In my last Sketchaday series I wrote a post nearly every day, but this time … Continue reading
Posted in character sketches, drawing, memory sketches, pen and ink, pen and wash, sketchaday, watercolour
Tagged cafes, Canada, character sketches, drawing, drawing from memory, journals, memory sketches, pen and ink, pen and wash, portraits, Revelstoke, sketchaday, sketching from memory, watercolour
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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 3: Capturing the moment
The other thing that I am trying to do during this trip, besides remembering people and situations, is to capture the landscape. This is my fourth visit to Canada, but it’s the first time I’ve seen the mountains in winter. … Continue reading
Posted in drawing, indigo, memory sketches, pen and ink, pen and wash, sketchaday, Uncategorized, watercolour
Tagged animals, art, blogs, Canada, clouds, composition, drawing, holidays, indigo, journals, less is more, monochrome, mountains, mt revelstoke, sepia, snow, travel, trees, watercolour
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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 2: Drawing from Memory
After arriving at Revelstoke on Dec 14, we were caught up in a whirlwind of family activities, so I now have to choose my moments to note down a scene from each day. We take plenty of iPhone pictures, but … Continue reading
Sketches of the human form
Off to Melbourne tomorrow for a quick trip so I will have more airport fun. In the meantime I’ve been sorting out my GOOD life drawings. I have about 300 that I still haven’t photographed – very often I’ll look … Continue reading
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Tagged art, charcoal, drawing, life drawing, life models, sketching
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Sketches based on Sketchaday sketches
A week since we arrived home, and I have been doing daily sketches but not necessarily from life. Today I took the pencil sketch that I did of Mt Begbie in Sketchaday21 and tried working it up in charcoal, using Strathmore … Continue reading
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Tagged art, blogs, Canada, charcoal, drawing, journals, mountains, Revelstoke, sketchaday, sketching, travel, urban sketchers, urban sketching
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#Sketchaday 26: Home sweet home, after a rather tedious journey – but you’re never bored when you carry a sketchbook!
The drawing above was half completed in pen on August 11, the day I left Revelstoke, and I added colour to it today, Sunday August 14, after arriving back in Adelaide yesterday morning. We set off for Kelowna on the … Continue reading
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Tagged aeroplanes, air travel, art, Canada, drawing, journals, Revelstoke, sketchaday, sketching, sketching buildings, sketching landscapes, sketching people, travel, urban sketchers
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#Sketchaday25: Goodbye to Revelstoke for now…
The last day in Revelstoke was devoted to packing and last minute business, but we did get a short walk in in the morning and were astonished to see an eagle standing in the middle of the river – it … Continue reading
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Tagged A is for adventuring, art, Canada, colouring in book, drawing, journals, mountains, Revelstoke, sketchaday, sketching, travel
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#Sketchaday 24: a kayak expedition(sketch in the pipeline) and more local scenery
Last night in Revelstoke tonight, so we had to have one last expedition – a kayak tour in the lake above the dam. This time we met just a few hundred metres from the dam and headed upstream, but never … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Canada, drawing, journals, mountains, Revelstoke, sketchaday, sketching, The Modern, travel, urban sketchers
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