Category: Art
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
I love seeing the progress in John’s drawings each day. We only use an eraser as a highlighting tool, but he has not used an eraser for the past several drawings. If you want to master something, you have got to do it every day! When we start feeling bored with a technique, we know…
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Daily Cafe Doodles. Rolleston.
Each morning over coffee at a local cafe, I edit the manuscript for my novel and John draws. I love to see how his ability to draw in detail, with one type of pencil and without measurements (as we do for larger pieces of art) in two hours is improving daily.
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
Our last week housesitting in Rolleston, Christchurch, New Zealand. There is something about holding a drawing in your hands, something that is not felt when you see it on a screen. I look forward to when we will have our own gallery to share our art in the physical world.
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The Library – An invitation to explore a little of Molly’s Story.
Experience a taste of things to come. In an excerpt from the unpublished manuscript ‘The Attic – The Dreaming Book 3’ where Molly explores a mystical transition between her present and the Victorian era through a portal in The Attic. Upon entering, she encounters a transformed space resembling Oamaru and faces an enchanting choice between…
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
Onyx is one of the cats we are looking after at this housesit. Unassuming, gentle, and at times smoochy, he clearly lets us know what he wants. The leaf is a practice run for a larger portrait John is working on.
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
Kaka Beak Flowers – Clianthus maximus native to the North Island of New Zealand. the flowers range from a vibrant red to shades of pink or white. The flowers resemble the beaks of the Kaka, a native bird.
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
We have been quickly reminded of what is involved moving on from one housesit to another. It may not seem like much when we have everything we need in our car, but it takes most of the day to prepare the house for the owners return and strategically pack our car. Even though we were…
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