#0959 Gum Fern Bush
One from the Australian trip in March earlier this year. Under the three Sisters in the Blue Mountains. All the Australian sketches are in a category.
Train View
I put the view inside the picture.
Playfully … after Matisse
I like the idea. Not only windows but paintings, computers & TV. Some of my portraits show bits of TV, so that is a start.
Pelican in Flight
#0427 Pelican in Flight
The abstract emergence is interrupted by a sketchblog item. This is from the time in Australia, by the beach in Narrabeen travelling with Josh & Amy. More from that time coming up. A journal and a blog about our trip, frustratingly delayed. And even as I write there are sketches of the mountain brewing. Mt. Lyford is glowing outside as I write I I want to capture those moods.
I have added the Sketchblog Category, and will update the whole blog retrospectively. There, done, I now have a sketchblog for 2006-7 year of the sketch. What qualifies posts for this category? They reflect my life as I sketch it, outer life & inner life. Hmmm, they all do that… perhaps it is to do with my purpose, these are a journal of travels, even in my own circles.
Trees
We spent a couple of days in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Again we saw heaps of wildlife & I wanted to develop further the pastel trees I did earlier. But I don’t think this a development in the right direction. More to do.
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Lantana – sketchblogging, inner stirrings, paint & inspiration
I think that is what is is called, it is among these that the body is found in the movie Lantana (Great Movie)
This is the last one from the Sydney trip in this batch, we now move on to horses a week later in New Zealand – that is the trouble with mt journalling here – I can’t just post up as I go, just too busy. So the journal is all out of chronological order.
Never mind. Even if the chronology is messy there is are journeys running through this year of the sketch:
- Lots in New Zealand & Christchurch
- Some trips to Wellington
- Christmas I did a real sketch trip to Aoraki – Mt. Cook, this was a good warmup to more travel sketching
- Then Napier, but just did not manage to sketch much at all – too much NZAP Conference work.
- Australia for a week, late March 2007, beaches, bush, cityscapes, flowers & wildlife – more to catch up on.
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The sketchblogging is important to me, I like it & will keep going with it post TS.
The recent line & wash suits that – a sort of sketchbook style.
It will stand me in good stead as I go to San Francisco and New York in July, August.
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I feel something new coming up though. More focus on something within combined with more explorations of paint, digital paint.
What follows are a few samples of the sort of painting by others I am enjoying . Inspiration – other people’s work follows:
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Bottlebrush
That is what we called them as kids, I think they may be Banksias.
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Bird in Flight – what bird is this?
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Bird
Bird
#0413
Another unknown bird, next sketch is the same one in flight. They always seem to fly away! But wait, there is a pelican I have that is flying towards me! (next batch.)
Sea Bird in Flight
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Sea Bird – Which one?
A Crane or a Shag or a Cormorant? If you know let me know!
One of the many we watched in Narrabeen.
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