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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 6: The world offers itself to your imagination

Posted on January 23, 2019 by julia

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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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 3: Capturing the moment

Posted on January 1, 2019 by julia

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 →

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After J J Hilder

Posted on May 16, 2018 by julia

via Learning from the Masters

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Life Drawing

Posted on October 21, 2016 by julia

New StartArt class at Pepper St on December 13. Life drawing is a passion of mine. It’s like meditation: the discipline of drawing coupled with the silence of concentration, in a room that’s curtained off from the outside world. Many… … Continue reading →

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Sketches of the human form

Posted on August 24, 2016 by julia

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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Sketches based on Sketchaday sketches

Posted on August 19, 2016 by julia

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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#Sketchaday 26: Home sweet home, after a rather tedious journey – but you’re never bored when you carry a sketchbook!

Posted on August 14, 2016 by julia

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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#Sketchaday25: Goodbye to Revelstoke for now…

Posted on August 12, 2016 by julia

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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#Sketchaday 24: a kayak expedition(sketch in the pipeline) and more local scenery

Posted on August 10, 2016 by julia

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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Sketchaday 23: a Chinese kind of morning and a traditional Canadian evening treat

Posted on August 10, 2016 by julia

I woke at 5.30 to a misty moisty morning after overnight rain. I knew I’d see a completely different world to yesterday’s at the same time of day.  The mountains were barely visible at first between the clouds, but they … Continue reading →

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