I Lay Down Here So I Would Remember Everything You Wanted To

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White Lavender
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A late night sketch here at The Drum and Page

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Growth Looks Different For Everyone - Tend To Your Friends Carefully
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Your Child Is Never Too Old To Be Carried On Your Shoulders To Help Them See Their Dreams Better

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Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia)
Pointillism
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Heart to Heart on the Tin Can Phone
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Lavender
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Hanging With The Trinity
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Prunus
Felt pen and watercolour pencil on A5 paper
In the style of Japanese watercolours. I loved visiting Japan back in 2019 and would love to return.
Afternoon rumination and meditation.

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Sample sketches also presented
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Part 3 of the Birthday Weekend Art Bonanza here at The Drum and Page
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Waratah $65AUD
Orchid $35AUD
Dark-hearted Poppy $40AUD
Flight (Feather) $30AUD
Lantern $25AUD
Dietes $25AUD
Arum I $35AUD
Arum II $30AUD
Kookaburra $60AUD
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I am at a point in my creative writing journey where I have to make some decisions about projects, strategies, tactics and tools.
There is a vision behind all of this that requires distinct steps and processes, most of which will not have results for potentially years, if at all.
It requires an openness to experimentation, new directions, new techniques and new ideas. For a while now I have produced continuous line drawings and have seen my growth in that technique. So too in pointillism. Inspired by @peter_rush_drawings I am experimenting with urban landscapes. The first here was drawn using my lightbox, first in pencil, then with pen. The second was freestyling. In my mind I want it to look like Peter's work (you copy to learn) but I know his creative vision has taken years to develop.
So too will mine, creatively and artistically, in writing and in art, and in music.
Sometimes you follow the path someone else has made because it works for where you're at. Sometimes you have to follow the breadcrumbs left by others, and then sometimes it's stepping blindly into the abyss and stepping as far as the torch light allows.
The last two pictures are the same characters. The first one was the start of the streetscape, and the second is another version in my notebook.
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Gardenia
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A Monday morning flower affirmation - make sure you stink pretty today

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Sketchy Sketch That Has No Right to be a Sketch
Elk Horn - Experiment
This is based on the elk horn from my mother-in-law's garden after she passed away. It's flourishing at our place.
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At the end of last year I drew a colleague during an assembly. This year he put the drawing design into the laser burner machine thing and sent me a picture of it. I'll need to go via his desk to take a photo of me with it.
I really like how it turned out and to see the way the laser burns into the wood and leaves shadows
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Back to School
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The start, or return, to school will produce myriad responses, opinions, perspectives, arguments, seating plans, lunch box worries and breaking in new school shoes with a minimum of blisters.

As a teacher, I'm doing the best I can within a system that has faults and flaws.

We should focus on building the community and the characters that inhabit it through knowledge of the world, how to navigate information, and how to develop ourselves.

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Orchids II
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Reference for this orchid came from my own backyard. And I don't know the type of orchid. I do know it's not cymbidium nor phalaenopsis. It is possibly a dendrobium. I'm still a terrible gardener.

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Orchids
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Orchids are one of my favourite flowers, even though I am a terrible gardener.

How long you ask? 8 hours.
Meditative and quieting. Next piece will be smaller.

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I Look Sideways To Make Sure I Am Going In The Right Direction

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Here at The Drum and Page, like everywhere in the western world, we are about to turn the calendar over and start something new.
Except for the circumstances we are still in the midst of, trying to fold origami in a cyclone.
It does help to look around, find your location (usually the toilet paper ailse of Woolies), pick up your grocery basket and put a packet of Tim Tams in.
Whatever was this year, and whatever will be next year, will be. Put the kettle on and have a biscuit.
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Cicada Shell
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How it finished. How it started. How long it took to do.

I now have the back cover art for my chapbook, The Cicada Clock - Stories Then and Now.
The fiddly bit is now arranging all the stories and finishing a new one for the collection.

Based on an image from @catherineevansauthor THANK YOU!

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