Category: Art
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Dusting off my pencils.
I have been drawing every day since the 6th March 2023, creating over 70 portraits, until we started packing up to move from the Page family home. Preparing this beautiful old villa built in 1906, with around 19 rooms was a big job. This house has been in the family for 80 years. The sale…
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Cafe Doodles
This mornings ‘Toolbox Meeting’ was at The Store @ Tai Tapu, near Christchurch, New Zealand. John completed this doodle yesterday, from a photo taken at Foxton Beach, (North Island New Zealand). © John W. Page 2025.
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Creative Inspiration – Repost.
© John W. Page 2018. Many creative ideas in my life have come into being through a simple drawing. A minor glitch sorted! An excerpt from ‘Further Steps In Drawing and Sketching’ by Adrian Hill, Chapter 14 Page 92.
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Cafe Doodles.
Our favourite cafe to write and draw in Rolleston is Coffee Culture. Good coffee, good food, good light, good atmosphere. Graphite drawing from a photo, Deer Park Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand. © John W. Page 2025.
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Cafe Doodles
Sneaky photo taking at Qubed Coffee Lounge, Halswell! What was I looking at?! The amazing light fittings.
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Cafe Doodles.
Eyes are a Window to the Soul. Number Five Cafe, Templeton, Christchurch, New Zealand. I love how John has captured the tear drop, graphite is such a pleasure to draw with. My pen doodle was a challenge as there is no erasing when drawing with a pen. Priming the pump for starting my next portrait.
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Cafe Doodles.
A late morning coffee at Coffee Culture, Rolleston. Looking forward to setting up our easels and focussing on a portrait. We will be starting a housesit on 29th August in Rolleston, where we can have an artists retreat for 6 weeks before we move just down the road to our second housesit for another three…
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A New Chapter.
Morning Coffee, Writing and Doodling, and watching the world go by. Coffee Culture, Merivale, Christchurch. City living is very different after the little rural town of Feilding.
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