Tag: travel blog
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Something different.
At each housesit, one of us will draw a portrait of the animals we are looking after. This housesit is a bit different. Along with 7 heifers, three cats, there are bee hives and a lavender farm and lots of grass to mow. Strip-feeding the cows yesterday, they were almost lost in the height of…
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Daily Doodles.
Today I joined John in doing a daily doodle with our coffee at The Little Cafe in Blenheim. Good coffee and awesome food – good inspiration for drawing! Today it is a wet day, drawing and writing at ‘home’. Editing has been a challenge, until today when I realised that I had been seeing this…
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Not so daily doodles!
Housesitting out of town has created a new routine. With stock to strip feed, and large lawns and gardens to care for, the days are busy, in a relaxed way. There are hives on this property, not anything we need to do, unless they swarm! The weather has been sunny and warm which has stirred…
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On The Road Again…
It’s the 28th October and we had huge flakes of snow falling for over an hour, making packing the car interesting. We had a 4.5 hour drive north to Spring Creek just outside of Blenheim. Vineyard Country, so grateful I don’t drink any more – what a fun distraction that would be! Today we are…
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
This is our last day in Rolleston. Even the cats at the housesit know that we are getting ready to move on. They are following us around the house and needing lots of reassurance – that their mum & dad are coming home tomorrow! Onyx and Jasper have weaved their way into my heart. John’s…
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
Easels are packed away as we prepare to move house. We have completed larger drawings for the owners of this housesit. Next Tuesday we drive north to Spring Creek near Blenheim. Lives of the past – bushfires near Rylstone, NSW, Australia – Summer 2013-14.
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Daily Cafe Doodles.
Art whispers to us, some times yells us, stretches us, helps us to grow, to see life differently and get to know ourselves more. Casting fresh light on the world around us and within us, Art helps us to feel comfortable in our own skin, with who we really are – and remember that we…
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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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