Category: Creative Lifestyle
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This is how to draw something AWESOME – easy!
Have you noticed the flood of attractive patterned doodling popping up everywhere? It has been branded as tangles or zentangles. I guess in some places that is a better term than …well…doodle. Doodle here means…well…a boy’s thingy..you know. I bet most of you have at one time or another doodled on a scrap piece of…
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Medication can motivate design
Reading a new book, Designing patterns for decoration, fashion and graphics by Lotta Kuhlhorns describe one of her designs in the most unusual way. She said it represented amount of exercise training, calories consumed during the day and quantities of blood pressure medicine – how unique! Isn’t it interesting how people see imagery and what…
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Drawings memories and making cards
It is nice to create cards for your loved ones. For a bit of fun (don’t laugh) I thought I would show you the birthday card I made my daughter from an old sketchbook image. The drawing is of my then little girl holding her favourite bunny toy. I sketched this portrait in 1996. This…
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5 more illustrations for #illo52weeks
I am doing a post catch up with my illustrations for the 52 week illustration challenge. I have been consistent in my artwork but no time to blog piece by piece. Here are weeks 26 -30. clouds: Following my daughter’s engagement announcement, naturally I had to make this theme a congratulations card. Ah, cloud number…
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Why Conferences are Important for Writers and Illustrators.
I could start and end by answering that conferences are incredibly FUN! This week attending the four day SCBWI Australia and New Zealand in Sydney was amazing. If we had any more fun it would be illegal. I’ve never laughed so much – my goodness – Susanne Gervey is a funny lady! Deborah Abela wrote a…