tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40820263341530511602024-03-05T03:55:53.336-08:00Chantal VincentChantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-77341052508635227482015-05-21T20:47:00.001-07:002015-05-21T21:30:12.590-07:00Sketching creative people as they create<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a continuation of a goal to sketch more people on location, I have set myself a task to try and capture the focus of people set about their work. A sketch of the pastry chef at Pana Chocolate in Alexandria, through the glass walled kitchen was the first. </div>
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Next was my friend and artist <a href="http://fionaverity.com.au/">Fiona Verity</a> and her lovely Labrador Sunny in Fiona's Brookvale Studio. Fiona's work is as colourful and energetic as she is, so it was a joy to develop a sketch and at the same time witness an ocean collage emerge on the wall. So much so, that I have resolved to sketch many more creative people at work during the year.</div>
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My third sketch was the result of a morning with glass carver <a href="http://www.edolselliott.com/" target="_blank">Kathy Elliot</a>. Her husband Ben Edols creates the blown glass vessel and then brings it to their home studio where Kathy carves and creates surface designs. Kathy has admirable strength and focus in addition to her skill, as she stood carving the heavy vessel at the lathe for the full hour I sketched! You can see more about the process of their beautiful work on this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VvTNJc8MVg" target="_blank">video</a>. </div>
Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-38153863794900524942015-03-12T20:12:00.002-07:002015-03-12T20:16:36.346-07:00Sketching People in Motion Craftsy class with Marc Taro Holmes<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sketch from this week in a café - 6 weeks after starting to use Marc's concepts. </td></tr>
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Adding people to my sketches on location has always been a challenge. Particularly when I'd devote an hour or two trying to capture a building and then fear I'd destroy the overall image with distorted out of proportion figures that had nothing of the conviction I might be able to give my building. However through <a href="http://sketchbookskool.com/kourses">Sketchbook Skool</a> classes it became more and more clear that in order to communicate all that I want to in my sketches, to tell a story, I needed people to complete most scenes. Finally, I seemed to have found what would get me regular sketching people live in Marc Taro Holmes Craftsy class "<a href="http://www.craftsy.com/class/sketching-people-in-motion/4948">Sketching People in Motion</a>".</div>
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Marc's style is I think quite unique to him and at first it seemed foreign and unlike my own work to add such things as a vertical shading/background line. But by having the focus of following a set method I seemed to be sketching without worrying about what people looked like until I'd made my way through all the stages. Only at the end of it did I stop to assess the sketch to realise I'd drawn a couple of people, sufficiently proportioned, telling a bit of a story. That they didn't always look recognisably like the people in front of me ultimately became irrelevant and liberating. I know that will come with further practice if I want it to.</div>
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I dedicated a sketchbook solely to sketching people live and ensured it was the only one I carried with me. Trying to keep myself honest to my commitment I didn't allow any food, coffee or building sketches in this sketchbook - if I had time to sketch, it had to be from live people. After getting a bit more confidence in doing this I started moving back toward more of what I think is my style and away from Marc's. One particularly huge help for me in Marc's strategy is being able to get the gesture and general shapes down in pencil first. I like sketching straight out in pen first often as it feels quicker but to get proportions right and get my confidence up, the pencil first approach is a great advantage to start with. </div>
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In the past week I have also been playing with watercolour first on some occasions (no pencil) which I still lose a bit of proportion on, but I find it fun and relaxing. My aim now is to keep up with the regular people sketching, maintain using <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/sktchy-for-artists-art-lovers/id594661327?mt=8">Sktchy app</a> once or twice a week (keeping familiar with faces up close helps me when people leave or are moving their head about a lot), move onto Marc's more advanced techniques (much of the above is based only on the first part of the Craftsy course) and learn more about communicating gesture, relationships and actions. </div>
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Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-35732008591754214132015-02-27T19:37:00.002-08:002015-02-27T19:37:36.257-08:00Boronia House, Mosman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I met with others of the Sydney Sketch Club at Boronia House in Mosman. I often glance in at this grand building when I pass it on Military Road, but had not before ventured through the front gate to sketch it. </div>
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Boronia House was built in 1885 and is now heritage listed and used as dining rooms for high teas and functions. An example of Victorian Filigree architecture - the iron lacework was quite a challenge.</div>
Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-71395831280886682072015-01-01T02:25:00.003-08:002015-01-01T02:26:44.389-08:00Sketching in Melbourne <br />
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During a family trip to Geelong in December, my sister Suzette, my niece and I squeezed in a day trip to Melbourne. There is an overwhelming number of buildings I'd like to sketch there but many of them would take me 2 hours. So as not to bore my poor companions too much, we settled for a café in Hardware Lane in the morning and sketched this view from the outside tables. Lots of great little places to eat along this street. </div>
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On short notice we were also able to meet with fellow Urban Sketchers, Evelyn and Janice for lunch. I enjoy the fact that Urban Sketchers has created community both online and in real life that it is so easy to catch up with these friends and fill a couple of hours with talk of sketching, materials and travel. </div>
Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-82067140431256797212014-12-06T22:30:00.003-08:002014-12-07T17:22:13.826-08:00Urban Sketchers Sydney at Mortuary Station <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mortuary Station, Regent Street, Sydney, from yesterday’s Urban Sketchers meet. This Gothic inspired style Sandstone structure was built in 1869. It’s original purpose was to receive the dead of the city, as they began their journey by train (along with mourners) out to Rookwood Cemetery. Such a detailed building that I appreciate so much more having sketched it. It as designed by James Barnet who also worked on the Sydney GPO in Martin Place and several other Sydney Buildings. </div>
Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-91026563755394688272014-11-24T14:48:00.001-08:002014-11-24T14:51:58.531-08:00Coptic bound Sketchbook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks to the guidance, time and patience - and the sharing of tools and materials - from sketcher <a href="http://quirkyartist.wordpress.com/">Wendy Shortland</a> I have recently completed my first Coptic bound Sketchbook. It took two sittings with Wendy and several hours for the full process from tearing the full size Canaletto 200gsm hot press paper and folding into signatures, making the covers and stitching the binding. </div>
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I'm very pleased with the outcome and looking forward to trialling it. The green fern cover paper was from Wendy's stash and I was fortunate that my friend Ethna shared with me more botanical themed paper for the end pages. </div>
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<br />Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-16414390926429301762014-11-01T23:09:00.001-07:002014-11-01T23:09:51.088-07:00Urban Sketchers Sydney at Millers Point<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many historic buildings to sketch at Millers Point for the USK Sydney meet yesterday. My favourite is this one. The Lord Nelson Hotel was first licensed in 1841 when its landlord was William Wells, a former convict. It s believed to be the oldest existing hotel building in Sydney. (from the green historic plaque on the wall)Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-70106266363432762952014-10-04T01:32:00.002-07:002015-01-28T19:35:48.954-08:00Urban Sketchers Sydney - Manly Jazz Festival <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Urban Sketchers Sydney were entertained by free live jazz under bright sunshine today at Manly's annual Jazz Festival. We wandered from the ferry wharf along The Corso where some of us stopped to sketch in and around the New Brighton Hotel. Its an oddly shaped building due to its location on a very sharp corner of The Corso and Sydney Road. <br />
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The Storytelling course from <a href="http://www.sketchbookskool.com/">Sketchbook Skool</a> is underway. Koosje Koene provides instruction as to drawing a recipe. I slightly tweaked it for indoor gardening. Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-51507533144437585322014-09-20T16:38:00.000-07:002014-09-20T16:38:29.133-07:00Sktchy CrowdIn a bid to further develop sketching people I've been trialling a combination of portraits together from my favourite inspiration App '<a href="http://chantalvincentart.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/motivated-to-learn-with-sktchy-portraits.html">Sktchy</a>'. <br />
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The first try was a page of women. I'm happy with the result but still spend more time than I had hoped on each person. My aim is to be faster and more responsive to shapes and profiles. <br />
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For the Sktchy men, drawing more people smaller worked better. It helped me to simplify the line work and study variations in angles and features between the people.Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-20064705414087540382014-09-16T21:47:00.000-07:002014-09-18T03:14:54.286-07:00Urban Sketchers Sydney - Surry Hills<div style="text-align: justify;">
Continued Sydney wet weather made Surry Hills cafes the perfect spot for our latest Urban Sketchers meet. There was the option of some great streetscapes and the more hardy sketchers braved the soggy conditions to sketch them. But the Book Kitchen in Devonshire Street proved too tempting for me. </div>
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The choice to stay indoors was rewarded with a nice clear view of fellow sketcher Chris. Followed by another angle of a couple on bar stools with their back to me. Great for a sketcher a little too timid to sketch strangers face to face. This time there was 10 minutes or so to study body language and profiles, and with the benefit of practicing contours lately, the shapes and proportions seemed to draw on my page much quicker and more accurately. There must be a tipping point on this sketching journey that's getting closer. When I will recall faces from photo references I've drawn in the past and have them start to seep into drawing from life. It's still a great challenge to sketch accurately when people are constantly shifting position and turning their heads in conversation. Maybe another thousand or so? I'm fairly sure though that contour drawing is helping me lots. </div>
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After my small triumph in the café the sun came out and I joined other sketchers across the road to record the Bourke Street Bakery. Another good spot for people sketching due to the queues! Very popular! This sketch was rushed as time was short and I think I spent as much time adding in the brick texture later as I did doing the rest of the sketch on site. The day was made the merrier by a little girl Alice who came to chat and watch us sketch whilst her Mum queued. She had a real keenness for what we were up to. She signed my picture quite happily. Hope she went home to sketch!</div>
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A second semester of Sketchbook Skool themed "Seeing" was introduced in July this year to follow on from "<a href="http://chantalvincentart.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/sketchbook-skool-beginnings.html">Beginnings</a>". Urban Sketcher Liz Steel was part of the teaching staff and I was keen to see how her online class would go after the success of her workshops here in Sydney. Danny Gregory, Koosje Koene both returned to teach with the addition of Brenda Swenson, Cathy Johnson and Andrea Joseph. </div>
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One of the biggest challenges for me came with Koosje's week which focussed on self portraits. This was time and energy consuming and confronting. We needed to complete several and I had barely attempted any self portraits prior to the course. But by my final piece I was pleased with what I'd achieved. The motivation and inspiration that comes from sharing that journey with other students online has a very positive impact. </div>
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Cathy Johnson is renown for sharing valuable tuition and demonstrations online and through her books. Her week was great for revisiting some key watercolour fundamentals as well as looking at nature studies. From this I made studies of the local cranky Common Myna. They are annoying birds but with plenty of character. </div>
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Andrea Joseph shared insights into her unique and distinctive style of illustrating with pens/biros. The result she achieves with the cheapest, or even better, free ball point pens is astonishing. I did enjoy taking a shot at this method, but I know I don't have the sufficient patience required to pursue it much further. The aspect of trying such a diverse range of ideas each week throughout the course is a good way to learn what does (or doesn't) suit your own capabilities and character. </div>
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Finally, it was Liz's week and time to return to more familiar methods. Liz organised a sketching day in the Rocks and it was a great day to catch up with sketchers I already knew as well as meet a few new ones who I had conversed with online in the groups. We spent the morning sketching buildings and then headed to the Tea Cosy to sketch tea cups and high tea. Fabulous way to round off another semester!</div>
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In April this year I joined the 6 week online sketching course "<a href="http://www.sketchbookskool.com/kourses">Sketchbook Skool</a>" (co-founded by Danny Gregory and Koosje Koene). I was familiar with a few of Danny Gregory's books and his blog, and the course featured Prashant Miranda, Roz Stendahl and Tommy Kane as teachers - all sketchbook artists I have admired for some time from an urban sketching perspective. </div>
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For the last 2 years I have learned sketching skills and concepts mostly from Liz Steel's classes in person, having the great fortune of living in the same city as her. So the idea of learning more from other sketchbook artists seemed like a good one and by the end of the 6 weeks I was very glad I'd signed up. Following are a few of my homework pieces from the course. We don't get assessed as such but the motivation to make the most of anything these teachers are offering is enough to push me along. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sketching taxidermy - Understanding sketching animals better from Roz Stendahl's class. Thanks to my friend Olga for taking me to her bar "Honeyrider" in Neutral Bay for my subject!</td></tr>
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Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-92116062819634222172014-07-27T00:29:00.001-07:002014-07-27T00:29:10.260-07:00Urban Sketchers Sydney meet at QVB. <br />
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The June sketch day for Urban Sketchers was at Queen Victoria Building. I chose to sit at a café outside the beautiful shopping arcade and make a study of 149 York Street which was once the Gresham Hotel, built in 1890. <br />
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Then in July we headed down to The Rocks - one of my favourite historical areas of Sydney. We had been offered to participate in the Aroma Festival by sketching on disposable coffee cups. They were surprisingly good to sketch on (once you get used to the curved surface) and took both ink and watercolour quite well. (The image looks a bit weird as we used the panoramic feature on our phones to try and capture the rotated surface of the cup).<br />
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Before and after the cup sketch I took the opportunity to sketch The Russell Hotel in George Street. This is one of my favourite hotels in The Rocks area due to that fairy tale like Scots-Baronial Tower. Many of the architectural features have been retained since the hotel was built in 1887.<br />
Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-84298565397782386722014-05-06T20:59:00.001-07:002014-05-06T20:59:52.937-07:00Historic Sydney - Tempe House and Strickland House<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Firstly Tempe House in April, where Ethna and I visited on an open day for the local art society. It is set on beautiful grounds and next to a picturesque garden. Once absorbed in sketching it was easier to block out the constant hum of the Princess Hwy not too far away, and the construction of the apartment blocks behind, and imagine a quieter time when there would have been nothing but the flow of the river and swaying trees for company. </div>
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The front portico's were a good challenge to sketch and reminded me a little of sketching the rotunda at Balmoral Beach. By the time the line work on the building was finished time was short so the trees of the garden were captured best I could with just paint brush and trying to remember to vary tone, colour and markings so it didn't appear too flat. </div>
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The second historic Sydney property was Strickland House which welcomed visitors last Sunday. No denying that my Tempe House sketch influenced composition here and the similar shape of the portico was less confronting this time. In very strong winds, but brilliant blue sky, I got down the building lines in pen (all but for that fiddly iron work on the verandahs) and mapped out the washes of colour from the distinct shadows. The green foliage was added once home, and here I tried for a looser and less distinct garden than the previous sketch. The shadows also got a boost of colour and darkening. Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-51738171199954215932014-04-24T05:21:00.001-07:002014-04-24T05:21:15.731-07:00Beach Sketching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's the Freshwater Beach Ocean Bath with a view to Manly Beach in the distance. A Pied Cormorant, one of my favourite birds of the area, sits high atop the light pole. Observing all and preparing to dive for its next fish. </div>
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Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-21250787576595727842014-03-25T18:10:00.002-07:002014-03-25T18:10:24.308-07:00Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop - Cockatoo Island. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last week I attended the wonderful Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop held on Cockatoo Island hosted by Liz Steel and Paul Wang. I've shared some details about my experience on the Urban Sketchers Australia Blog <a href="http://australia.urbansketchers.org/2014/03/lots-to-learn-from-expressive-urban.html">here</a> if you'd like to read more. Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-90083607300595065102014-02-28T14:59:00.000-08:002014-02-28T15:03:27.173-08:00Sydney Sketch Club at Cafe Bones<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On a sunny weekend morning Sydney Sketch Club met to sketch dogs at Cafe Bones in Leichhardt. Expecting to find a couple of dogs content to sit still or perhaps even asleep was ridiculous of me in hindsight. Dogs were running, playing, sniffing, barking - but of course never sitting perfectly still for a portrait! Even those kindly held for us by their owners constantly twitched their ears and turned their heads in all directions to the activity around them. But it was loads of fun and the perfect exercise for forcing to sketch fast which is what I need. Will definitely go again. </div>
Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-308588335342433842014-02-17T19:49:00.001-08:002014-02-17T20:41:46.951-08:00Exploring The Rocks. Week 1. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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When thinking of The Rocks in Sydney, my mind begins wandering down it's quaint little laneways. Picturing Colonial buildings tucked away in tight spots, hosting cafes and restaurants and its fair share of the upmarket tourist shops. With my thoughts in that space, I often forget that only a few hundred metres away, across Circular Quay, sits the Sydney Opera House in all her glory. </div>
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So it was an unexpected, but welcome surprise that the Sydney Opera House was the on location sketch subject in our first week of <a href="http://www.lizsteel.com/p/blog-page.html">Liz Steel's "Exploring The Rocks"</a> workshop. After a dose of theory in an old Rocks prison cell (roughing it with fabulous coffee and fine French pastries), we left for a grassy park and sat in the shade of a tree, sketching away. A great benefit of a teacher who is also an architect is the added insight into the structure of a building and the tips on what to focus on. Most memorable was that the front part of the podium on which the house sits was designed partly to reflect the shape of the heads at the entrance to Sydney Harbour.</div>
<br />Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-769069282695784032014-02-08T15:52:00.005-08:002014-02-08T15:54:18.115-08:00Sydney Urban Sketchers at Town Hall<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Yesterday our local Urban Sketchers group gathered at Sydney Town Hall. It's a fantastic area for interesting architecture with the surrounding buildings of the Town Hall and St Andrew's Cathedral as well as the Queen Victoria Building in the next block. </div>
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A strategy which worked well yesterday was to lay a first layer of wash down on one page for the watercolour only sketch, and then whilst that dried, sketched with the Hero pen in more detail on the other page. Picking up on preferred patterns and shadows from the detailed pen sketch that could then be layered back onto the watercolour sketch as the progressing layers dried. </div>
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Sydney Town Hall is one of Australia's finest examples of French Second Empire architecture. Designed by architect J H Willson in 1868, it is said to be inspired by Hotel de Ville in Paris. Festoons, finials and Mansard pavilions - lots to learn about this style of architecture that I have not drawn before. </div>
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These sketching mornings always pass so quickly. With not much time to go I found this carved angel figure at the front door of the St Andrew's Cathedral. So many, many, many more things to sketch in this area. Looking forward to returning. </div>
Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-88933068024163791512014-01-19T20:41:00.000-08:002014-01-19T20:41:40.352-08:00Motivated to learn with Sktchy Portraits <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I'm attempting to make 2014 the year I get comfortable with drawing people. My goal is to remove my hesitation of adding them to my urban sketches, to help bring them to life and tell more of a story. Having seen other Urban Sketchers give the <a href="http://www.sktchy.com/">Sktchy App</a> a try, I signed up and started work. </div>
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What's the process? Basically, creative people sketch from a constantly updated pool of photographic portraits provided by other Sktchy users. </div>
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On completion of the sketch, a photo of the finished piece is then attached to the original reference pic and posted to the artists stream of work as well as the main page. Not only does this create a motivating and creative platform to be part of, but it's a great learning tool to see how other people interpret and create from the initial point of inspiration. </div>
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There's generally a good number inspiring reference photos to be found. My preference is for more than just a face. People in action, dressed in printed/knitted fabrics, landscape or buildings in the background all make it a bit more interesting. I am not short choice (you can queue inspiring pics in your profile as you find them) and I already have enough muses to create one or two portraits a week for the next few months. </div>
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Chantalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07787763615530294753noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4082026334153051160.post-2887870547316260102014-01-16T23:38:00.000-08:002014-01-16T23:39:34.956-08:00Urban Sketching in Newcastle. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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On Saturday 11 January, a mix of Sydney and regional urban sketchers made their way to the Newcastle train station for our first regional meet. It was a fantastic setting with waterways, beaches and many old heritage buildings to admire all around. Wonderful to meet several sketchers who we'd previously only known through corresponding via the Australian Urban Sketchers Facebook group.</div>
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Despite hopes of creating several sketches for the day I settled on these two buildings and became absorbed in the details. So many other buildings to sketch in the area that I'm very sure a revisit to Newcastle will be on the cards. Thanks to Phil Bamford who went to the effort of ensuring people found their way easily to buildings of interest and facilities in the area. It was much appreciated! </div>
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We often look forward to visiting family interstate in December and this year we made our way to Margaret River, Western Australia. It's situated 3 hours drive south of Perth. Away from the bustle of cities but close to beautiful beaches and surrounded by wonderful huge Karri Tree forests. </div>
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We stayed at the lovely home above known as "Ithaca". When building the home from scratch they felt it may take as long as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey">Homer's</a> return voyage home to Ithaca to complete (20 years!). They say it's still unfinished but in its ideal bush setting and beautiful collections of old treasures inside, in my eyes it is a stunning home. </div>
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For the last evening of our stay we drove back up to Perth and stayed at the grand Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle. Fremantle is an old portside suburb that's be given a facelift and retains some fantastic buildings full of character. I hope I make it back with more time to sketch there another time. I have to give credit to my own family and in laws for tolerating my sketching at almost every opportunity on this trip! This sketch above was very rushed but in reality it was probably the speed I need to get back to after such a lazy holiday! </div>
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Week 3 of <a href="http://www.lizsteel.com/p/blog-page.html">Liz Steel's</a> Sketching Architecture course was on perspective. I took a page full of notes and great tips during the theory session which were all things I'd like to recall easily when I'm sketching on site. Depicted above is The Union Bond Store. A single bay sandstone warehouse at 47 George St, The Rocks, Sydney. Constructed in 1841. It still features its gantry beam and paired warehouse doors on each floor. To the left is the “First Impressions” Sandstone relief sculpture symbolising the origins and settlement of the colony. </div>
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Our final class was on developing contrast and textures. As the sun was having a hard time shining there was little in the way of cast shadow. We focussed on textures using a variety of methods such as wet on wet watercolour, splashing, using watercolour pencils under and over the watercolour washes, as well as scraping pencil lead over sandpaper to create fine specks of colour. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The last sketch session was at Susannah Place - a terrace of four small brick houses built
in 1844. It’s remained largely unchanged from its original layout and features
through to the 21st century and so shows us how some of the working
families of this area have lived for many generations. It’s another of those
places that always catches my attention when I’m walking through the Rocks (always tempted
to take the little laneways instead of noisy George St).</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've been grateful for the opportunity to attend Liz's classes in Sydney this year. It's been rewarding to learn from her and see her demonstrate first hand so much that I have never managed to learn elsewhere. I have great hopes that she'll run more architecture course in 2014 and that I'll be in the position to take them. </span></span></div>
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Back to one of Sydney's quaintest historical suburbs - The Rocks. Week 2 of <a href="http://sketchingarchitecture.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/sketching-architecture-in-rocks-week-2.html">Liz Steel's</a> course had us admiring various shop fronts along George Street. I chose this one for its worn looking façade and charm. </div>
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Built in 1856 in the Victorian Regency style, 103 George Street is significant in that it has maintained its use as both a shop and residence until this day. A faint trace of the<span class="text_exposed_show"> words 'Boarding House' could be seen on the façade, but unfortunately I couldn’t find any historical reference for the large number ‘6’. The shop below has been remodelled over time and currently exists as Ariel Booksellers. </span></div>
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