tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393220161630090862024-03-13T13:04:02.707+10:30Facets and FractalsA creative corner to display, discuss and draw inspiration. A place to share my many interests, to meet people of like mind, and to learn and explore. I'm off the edge, but I'm learning to fly.Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-7719627925489489852011-03-17T00:27:00.000+10:302011-03-17T00:27:51.453+10:30This blog is retiringI've been meaning to write this post for a while, hesitating perhaps before I make it official even though I haven't done anything here for some time.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>This blog is now officially retired and I will no longer be posting here.</b></div><br />
I thoroughly enjoyed my time here. I've met some fantastic people and made new friends. I've rejuvenated my artistic creativity and am bouncing around the world with so much more inspiration than when I started here. But I have finally created the blog on my own website I had planned long before I created this site to use while I had my little newborn Izzy. Izzy will be turning one in a couple of weeks and I had some time on my hands over Christmas that enabled me to set up my proper online home.<br />
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So...I will keep what is here, but now you will find me and all my writings over at my <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/">new website</a>, now two and a half months old, writing, arting and all round loving the creative blogosphere.<br />
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So what will you find on my new blog, <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/">Gumnut Inspirations</a>?<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/category/articles/inspired-people/"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kjeaSg9IutA/TYC9WbhljiI/AAAAAAAAAfg/whm5Z9YrAH0/s1600/inspiredpeople200px.JPG" /></a></div>Interviews with fellow artists on how they find their inspirations and keep creating.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/category/recommendations/my-creative-neighbourhood/"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HWkSBaC2shA/TYC9W3VVGLI/AAAAAAAAAfk/SuQY2eylCOk/s1600/mycreativeneighbourhood200px.JPG" /></a></div>Me looking over the fence at the artists around us and drawing a crowd when I say, 'hey , have a look at what this srtist is up to.'<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/category/articles/tools-and-techniques/"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D_bsc2G9R3U/TYC9VKJXl2I/AAAAAAAAAfU/Et7ACUEAIl0/s1600/toolsandtechniques200px.JPG" /></a></div>As I seek out information I need to learn how to art, I'm sharing it. These are the tools of the trade and the bits and pieces that can be hard to find outside a structured class.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/category/challenges/"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sHbPvvRur_o/TYC9XQzh1II/AAAAAAAAAfo/faAg1tuJQ24/s1600/spectrumsquare200px.JPG" /></a></div><a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/category/challenges/">Challenges</a>, both hosted by me and others, through the slowly increasing list in the <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/challenge-directory/">Challenge Directory</a>.<br />
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And, of course, my art, my ramblings, everything that was here before I shifted across the web to my new home. I've even installed Google Friend Connect so all my Google Friends can come and play.<br />
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You can also find me on Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gumnutlogic#%21/pages/Gumnut-Inspirations/163023297076772">Gumnut Inspirations</a> and Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Gumnut_Inspired">Gumnut Inspired</a>.<br />
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I would love you all to join me. I do miss some of the fun I had over here and am looking to recreate some of that on my new site and reconnect with those of you I'm missing.<br />
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Hope to see you there.<br />
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Best wishes,<br />
Nutty<br />
(totally inspired over at my new blog)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-56977632510665271832011-01-25T17:23:00.000+10:302011-01-25T17:23:07.328+10:30<i>I’ve had several requests for this one, so here it is finally, the first in what I hope is a series of explorations that I’ve tried and can now share with you so you can try.</i><br />
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I was giving my eldest daughter a bath one night, swirling bubblebath around in the tub, when the bubbles suddenly grabbed my attention. They had a beautiful texture. I wondered if they could carry paint and leave a print on paper. Of course, I had to explore the idea.<br />
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<a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/2011/01/explorations-bubble-painting/">Read more on Gumnut Inspirations.</a>Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-27082683472834546482011-01-25T08:44:00.000+10:302011-01-25T08:44:39.824+10:30My creative neighbourhood<div class="entry"> <div style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mycreativeneighbourhood200px.jpg"><img alt="My creative neighbourhood" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-431" height="191" src="http://inspired.gumnut.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mycreativeneighbourhood200px.jpg" title="My creative neighbourhood" width="200" /></a></em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><em>This post is part of a series I started some time ago and would like to resurrect here at my new homebase. This is where I look around at my fellow artists and highlight some of the wonderful things they’ve been up to recently. Anything that catches my eye, rattles my brain, or drops my jaw ends up here. Things I feel I need company in oggling at and admiring. If it’s here, it’s good.</em></div><span style="color: white;">-o-o-o-</span><br />
For this episode I’m going to do something a little different. This week I’m not oggling at art, I’m admiring a artist’s project that has grown from a spark of an idea to a fully fledged community now sparking more ideas than a campfire full of firecrackers.<br />
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<a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/2011/01/my-creative-neighbourhood-the-thriving-artists-project/">Read more on Gumnut Inspirations. </a></div>Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-85238280407928047462011-01-15T23:02:00.000+10:302011-01-15T23:02:12.227+10:30Drawing Lab Challenge #11 resultsMy results for the latest Drawing Lab Challenge are up over on Gumnut Inspirations. I've been playing with carbon paper and exploring what I can do with it. I got some interesting results.<br />
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<a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/2011/01/experiments-with-carbon-paper/">Experiments with carbon paper</a><br />
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Nutty<br />
(hope to see you over on my new blog as this one will be closing at the end of the month :( )Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-84228553462977304892011-01-14T23:12:00.000+10:302011-01-14T23:12:32.907+10:30Stagnation: the enemy of InspirationSee a photo of my loungeroom/living room and why I've been missing for the past week or so.<br />
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<a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/2011/01/stagnation-the-enemy-of-inspiration/">New post up on Gumnut Inspirations</a>.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(hopefully back)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-69447476244773428512011-01-07T23:31:00.000+10:302011-01-07T23:31:28.595+10:30Drawing lab Challenge #11<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TJ3y-I-N_tI/AAAAAAAAAUA/CTvV4hCWlwA/s1600/il_fullxfull.176768622.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TJ3y-I-N_tI/AAAAAAAAAUA/CTvV4hCWlwA/s320/il_fullxfull.176768622.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
The next Drawing Lab Challenge is up! Sorry for the absence of the challenge over the holiday period. It ate me.<br />
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<a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/2011/01/drawing-lab-challenge-11/">You can find the new challenge here on my new website</a> <br />
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Hope to see you there.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(enjoying her new site, but missing some of you :( )Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-49391293296396230842011-01-03T23:46:00.000+10:302011-01-03T23:46:12.743+10:30CosmosI've just completed another bubble painting, this time for the Creative Every Day challenge, 'cosmos'.<br />
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You can find it here on my new blog - <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/2011/01/cosmos/">Cosmos</a><br />
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Nutty<br />
(with mixed feelings about this one)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-48374262077975594132011-01-02T23:57:00.000+10:302011-01-02T23:57:47.719+10:30Challenge Directory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TNZOI0x2ZSI/AAAAAAAAAak/9iuv8OPBmB0/s1600/embers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TNZOI0x2ZSI/AAAAAAAAAak/9iuv8OPBmB0/s200/embers.JPG" width="199" /></a></div>I started a short list of art challenges on my new website. I've listed all those I know of, but would love it if you could point me in the direction of any challenges I've missed (and I know there are plenty).<br />
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You can find the list here - <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/challenge-directory/">Challenge Directory</a>.<br />
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Any help greatly appreciated. I thought it would be a useful list.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(off the edge, but learning to fly)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-10957118248761472352011-01-01T00:41:00.000+10:302011-01-01T00:41:02.804+10:30Inspired.gumnut.net<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/images/header.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="94" src="http://inspired.gumnut.net/images/header.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <br />
Okay, I've done it. A year later than I had planned (that whole having a baby thing just interrupts everything :D), I now have my own blog on my own website with my own domain name.<br />
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<a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/">Gumnut Inspirations</a><br />
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Eventually I will be moving from this blog to my new website. I set up Blogger because at the time I didn't have the time to delve into Wordpress. I still don't, but I fluffed my way around parental duties and I am now entering 2011 with a new website, new logo and a new mission to make something of my artwork.<br />
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And I couldn't have come as far as I have without all of you. You've all been a fantastic support to me over the past six months (yes, I've been here six months now). I've managed to do more artwork in those six months than I have done in the past ten years. My entry into the creative blogosphere was like finding the path I lost thirty odd years ago. Thank you for all your wonderful support.<br />
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In return, I hope to help a few of you with a little inspiration. Several of you have expressed an interest in my art experiments, so I've made that the focus of my new blog - Exploration to find Inspiration. I'm going to document my experiments like the <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/search/label/experiments">bubble paintings and my other painting experiments</a> in the hope that some of you might gain some inspiration from my dabblings. So I would love for you to come and join me over on my website. I will be here for a little while longer, but eventually I will be retiring this blog and I'd hate to lose you, so please join me. I've even set up Google Friend Connect over there to make you feel at home :D<br />
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In any case, I wish you all a very Happy New Year as Adelaide has slipped into 2011 and I'm waving at most of you from the future. Here's hoping 2011 is even more arty than its predecessor.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(12.38am, 1 Jan 2011)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-28767239521392319942010-12-31T17:24:00.000+10:302010-12-31T17:24:26.831+10:30Experiments - Paper mosaics and motion<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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</tbody></table>This is what happens when you experiment. You never quite know what you're going to end up with. This one is slightly weird. I could have added more to it, but it had such a sense of motion to it that I stopped in case I spoilt it. It is also a lousy photograph. But I'm fairly happy with it. It keeps asking me for more colour variety, but I have no idea what to give it, so it stays as it is.<br />
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Can you see the movement?<br />
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Nutty<br />
(building a new blog on her own website - <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/">http://inspired.gumnut.net</a> )Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-50185918142508219622010-12-30T16:52:00.000+10:302010-12-30T16:52:35.027+10:30Flying Spark<a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/how-to-use-the-flying-spark/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Flying Spark" border="0" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-130" height="300" src="http://inspired.gumnut.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/embers-300x300.jpg" title="embers" width="300" /></a>Do you have trouble finding inspiration some days?<br />
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Any word, object or emotion can spark a masterpiece, but sometimes it is really hard to locate a place to start, a focus that can sharpen your mind in a productive direction. The Flying Spark offers a daily challenge to set you on a path to find the inspiration you are looking for.<br />
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Though designed primarily for visual artists and writers, the challenges can be used for anything that requires inspiration.<br />
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Starting January 1st, 2011, every day a word, an emotion, a memory, a concept, a scene, something to do, or other category will be posted via the Twitter account <a href="http://www.twitter.com/flying_spark">http://www.twitter.com/flying_spark</a>. It can also be found on <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/">Finding Inspiration</a> at <a href="http://inspired.gumnut.net/">http://inspired.gumnut.net</a><br />
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For example, a word challenge, 'Word: Moonlight' (First the type of challenge : then the challenge itself). A participant could quite easily draw or write about 'moonlight'. Challenge met.<br />
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But that isn't all this challenge is about. The Flying Spark is only the beginning of your path to find inspiration because not all of us will want to use a challenge like 'moonlight' so literally. The challenge is fully open, anything can be derived from 'moonlight'.<br />
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Perhaps a play on the word? 'Moonlight' becomes 'moonlighting', something that has nothing to do with earth's satellite (well, very little) and leads your mind in a completely different direction.<br />
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Or perhaps 'moonlight' makes you think of the moon shining down on a deserted beach – you could be inspired by the scene – but on that beach walks a lone woman – who is she, where did she come from? - inspired by the woman – she steps on a shell, what kind of shell? A red one, dark in the light – you begin designing using the shell as a starting point – sand is rough and wet between her toes, you can feel it on your fingers, what an interesting texture – you use texture as a starting point – a bird flies across the moon – what kind of bird, feathers, ooh, you had some feathers in your art cupboard waiting for a project – inspired by feathers (hmm, sounds like a condition :D). It goes on like that. The listed challenge is only a starting point, a place to settle your mind and start seeking.<br />
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Or, moonlight → sunlight → sunburn → pain → red → roses...a chain of thought leading you in any direction you choose until you find that inspiring thought. The result could have absolutely nothing to do with the challenge that was posted, but the important thing is the <i>result</i>. That is what we aiming for here. A piece of art needs inspiration to be born.<br />
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Take the offered challenge and look at it from as many angles as you can think of, let your mind wander until it hits pay dirt. (Go have a shower, it works wonders for me when I'm looking for inspiration, and take the challenge with you :D)<br />
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When practised regularly, this can become a skill that you can access automatically. It speeds up your productivity and enables you to find inspiration faster and in a more on-demand basis – something of extreme importance when you are using your art to make a living – you don't have time to wait around for inspiration, you need to find it and find it now!<br />
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And when you have a wonderful piece of work that has been ignited by the Flying Spark, please let me know. I'd love to see it.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(armed with matches)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-31182722530081500472010-12-17T22:48:00.000+10:302010-12-17T22:48:18.154+10:30Drawing Lab challenge #10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TKXcJ9UfoYI/AAAAAAAAAVc/_grlZbdMvsc/s1600/drawinglab.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TKXcJ9UfoYI/AAAAAAAAAVc/_grlZbdMvsc/s320/drawinglab.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Speaking of eyeballing...<br />
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This is the tenth challenge post for the Drawing Lab Challenge. Grab your copy of '<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/57013660/book-drawing-lab-for-mixed-media-artists">Drawing lab for mixed media artists: 52 creative exercises to make drawing fun</a>' and join us as we tackle the book together. Details of the challenge and joining can be found <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/p/drawing-lab-challenge.html">here</a>.<br />
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This week the challenge is...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lab <span style="font-size: large;">12</span></span> </span>(Page 42).</b><br />
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I've always loved drawing these. It will be fun to explore further.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(it's great when your drawing stares back at you :D)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-71918211277069443592010-12-17T22:43:00.000+10:302010-12-17T22:43:55.344+10:30Drawing Lab challenge #9 results - scribblesI thought this one would be easy, and while technically it was, I'm not sure I've actually done it the right way. I had a great deal of trouble discerning between scribble and sketching and I think pretty much all my drawings leant towards the latter.<br />
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First up I thought I'd play with my gel pens on some black paper. I like black paper :D<br />
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I had no idea what to draw and I couldn't be bothered digging a photo out of my photography files, so I drew what was in front of me - some flowers my sister brought over for KJ.<br />
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The gel pens certainly gave the exercise an interesting texture as they both lay down ink and picked it off as the lines crossed. I was as free as possible, not really caring where the lines went.<br />
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Wanting to continue to experiment I then went back to good old black pen on fineliner paper. Again I had no idea what to draw so I eyeballed what was on the table and picked a subject (I was sitting at the dining table, hence the rather odd occurrence of candles).<br />
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But they were incredibly boring, so I stopped drawing those about five seconds after I started.<br />
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Looked around for something slightly more complicated and came up with my jar of gel pens.<br />
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What else could I draw? Perhaps a more defined shape?<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TQtRwbTTJ9I/AAAAAAAAAek/dI0Zrk4vmWM/s1600/scribblesharpener.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TQtRwbTTJ9I/AAAAAAAAAek/dI0Zrk4vmWM/s320/scribblesharpener.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Okay, so I was getting totally lazy and lame drawing the sharpener that just happened to be there with me. After that I gave up and blamed my slightly off mood as the culprit for lack of inspiration.<br />
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But! I did complete the assignment and I do plan to explore scribbling further down the track.<br />
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So how did you do? Post a link to your creations in the comments, I would love to see them. <br />
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Nutty<br />
(and now for the next challenge)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-5354567230983271172010-12-16T19:44:00.000+10:302010-12-16T19:44:50.755+10:30Painting experiments - Caught<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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</tbody></table>Here you go. My attempt to create a painting from <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-can-you-see-painting-experiments.html">this</a>. I love bits of it, other bits, not so much, but hey, it's only an experiment :D<br />
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So <a href="http://describehappy.blogspot.com/">Christie</a>, you scored :D It was a fish I had in mind. It would be interesting to see if it was the same fish :D<br />
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Nutty<br />
(dashing off back to all consuming motherhood - I painted this in the last hour or so while the kids were asleep, bit of a rush job)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-16674552020282817732010-12-13T22:54:00.000+10:302010-12-13T22:54:19.538+10:30What can you see? - painting experiments continuedFurthering on my experiments from <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/12/more-painting-experiments.html">here</a>, <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/12/dream.html">here</a> and <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/12/sunday-sketches-balloons.html">here</a>...what can you see?<br />
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I know what I can see and what I'm going to add to it as soon as I can, but I'm interested in what other artists might see. This is the beauty of experimentation, you never quite know what is around the corner.<br />
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And thank you so much for all those wonderful people who commented on my last post. You certainly encouraged me and I am really excited about this new avenue I have found to play in. Exploring my art is just so much fun! <br />
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Nutty<br />
(playing)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-5398209983107940022010-12-12T23:00:00.000+10:302010-12-12T23:00:47.272+10:30Sunday Sketches - Balloons<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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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Dreams of Balloons</b>, acrylic, watercolour pencil and gel pen on illustration board, approx. 250 x 200 mm</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Still more experimenting with paints in line with <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/12/dream.html">yesterday's post</a>. I was mesmerised by this idea the moment I saw it in the paint. It has it's faults, but I'm happy with the movement.<br />
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Since I spent a good part of today doing this, I'm submitting it to <a href="http://bluechairdiary.blogspot.com/2010/12/sunday-sketches_11.html">Sunday Sketches</a>. Drop on by and see what everyone else is up to.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(crawling off to bed)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-74108509871301023732010-12-11T23:38:00.000+10:302010-12-11T23:38:02.738+10:30Drawing Lab challenge #9<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TKXcJ9UfoYI/AAAAAAAAAVc/_grlZbdMvsc/s1600/drawinglab.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TKXcJ9UfoYI/AAAAAAAAAVc/_grlZbdMvsc/s320/drawinglab.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Now for some fun...(sorry it is a day late)<br />
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This is the nineth challenge post for the Drawing Lab Challenge. Grab your copy of '<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/57013660/book-drawing-lab-for-mixed-media-artists">Drawing lab for mixed media artists: 52 creative exercises to make drawing fun</a>' and join us as we tackle the book together. Details of the challenge and joining can be found <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/p/drawing-lab-challenge.html">here</a>.<br />
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This week the challenge is...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lab 24</span> </span>(Page 70).</b><br />
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Did anyone manage to do some Drawing Lab last during last week's catch up? I know I didn't. My brain has been orbiting another planet for the last fortnight so I haven't really managed anything until the last couple of days, and that wasn't Drawing Lab. Hope you did better than I. Drop a comment here so I can go gander at your artisitc pursuits (I'm behind on my blog reading as well, so help me out by poking me in the right direction :D)<br />
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Nutty<br />
(off the rails and heading for a cliff)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-66205287730654158612010-12-11T23:13:00.001+10:302010-12-11T23:17:41.187+10:30Dream<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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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Dream</b>, Acrylic, pen and gel pen on illustration board, approx. 200mm x 250mm.</td></tr>
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The experiment from the <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/12/more-painting-experiments.html">previous post</a>? Now a completed painting.<br />
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The scan seems to have obliterated most of the stars. Right down the centre of the piece is a spray of stars in yellow and white. <br />
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What do you think? Not quite my normal stuff. :D<br />
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Nutty<br />
(experimenting)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-51039775010485112802010-12-09T22:55:00.000+10:302010-12-09T22:55:53.524+10:30More painting experiments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TQDIZ5d7klI/AAAAAAAAAeA/5bL-xMsdPmA/s1600/bubbles.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TQDIZ5d7klI/AAAAAAAAAeA/5bL-xMsdPmA/s640/bubbles.JPG" width="508" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Everything seemed to come to a screeching halt when Art Every Day Month ended. There I was chuffing along churning out art, and I suddenly stopped. Didn't feel like it anymore.<br />
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So I've taken a few days, reoriented, and given myself a new target, one I had set up before the challenge started, but had put aside. I've gone back to my experiments. They are so much fun to do and even if the results don't work out, it is still a challenge to make something out of what ever mess it is I've created.<br />
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I flung a heap of paint around today to get the result above. The experiment has pretty much finished, but the painting hasn't and I intend to add to it, but as I haven't posted here in days, and it gives me a sense of accomplishment, here is today's effort.<br />
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Isn't adding stuff to a project that looks okay a little nerve wracking? One mistake and all that work goes down the drain (unless a rescue effort is viable).<br />
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Nutty<br />
(mad artist at work)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-51160517489782009062010-12-05T00:00:00.000+10:302010-12-05T00:00:07.068+10:30More playing with pensI started a painting today, but it hardly got anywhere due to whining children and 38C/100F heat, so it is still sitting on my easel awaiting attention.<br />
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So driven into the lounge with the airconditioner, I found myself doodling with my new pens again.<br />
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I have a very limited pallette with these pens and the single green I have (every colour is single) is NOT a gumleaf colour, so I was challenged to try and blend the pen strokes, something not usually done with ballpoint pens. I consider the results interesting if not realistic.<br />
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I do know that I like my pens :D<br />
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Nutty<br />
(doodle, doodle, doo)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-58431040762564286382010-12-03T22:54:00.001+10:302010-12-03T23:00:41.429+10:30Playing with pensThis is the grand total of the art I did this week.<br />
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Basically I bought some more gel pens and wanted to play with them. Wonky is the word.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(I think I need some more Art Every Day Month :D)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-9571154483266655812010-12-03T22:51:00.001+10:302010-12-03T22:55:10.128+10:30Drawing Lab Challenge #8 results and Catch Up Week #2Okay, I managed to not even look at this week's challenge. It seems that Art Every Day Month ended and I collapsed in an art sense. haven't done a thing. Well, except for the tiny doodle I'm going to post in a minute, and that was done in a few minutes today between housework sessions.<br />
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So yes, I have no Drawing Lab Challenge results to post this week. I'll perhaps give it a go This coming week which is Catch Up Week #2 :D<br />
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Did you do better than me? Add your link to your efforts in Mr Linky below so I can go gaze at your work enviously.<br />
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Catch Up Week #2<br />
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This week is Catch Up Week, so this is your chance to either do those exercises you missed or couldn't finish or go all out on one you particularly liked and whip up a master piece.<br />
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have at it!<br />
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Nutty<br />
(in the hot part of the house...welcome Summer!)<br />
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</script>Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-10641479478096478462010-11-30T22:43:00.000+10:302010-11-30T22:43:55.656+10:30November 2010 - Art Every Day Month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://creativeeveryday.com/art-every-day-month" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TLSmMhPZOPI/AAAAAAAAAXo/Dbeva1I8Omk/s1600/aedmlogored.gif" /></a></div><br />
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If it wasn't for this <a href="http://creativeeveryday.com/art-every-day-month">fantastic challenge</a> and <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/11/challenge-list.html">the challenges I've used to help my inspiration</a> I wouldn't have...<br />
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<b>My acrylic paintings</b>...my first in nearly ten years...<br />
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<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TNZOI0x2ZSI/AAAAAAAAAak/9iuv8OPBmB0/s1600/embers.JPG" width="200" /></td> <td><br />
<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TNqQfu-pzvI/AAAAAAAAAa8/SsosOJppRTs/s1600/afterwards.JPG" width="200" /></td> <td><br />
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<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TOe8b75woRI/AAAAAAAAAbs/vLQdNiparEo/s1600/greenfireworks.JPG" width="200" /></td> <td><br />
<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPJLhnbplWI/AAAAAAAAAc8/iOF8gtJag5Q/s1600/exhiliration.JPG" width="200" /></td> </tr>
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<b>My Wind Sculpted Trees</b>...a derivative of zentangling that I'm still really excited about and want to explore further...<br />
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<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TN6KcfURfcI/AAAAAAAAAbM/bbONr18l48M/s1600/survivor.JPG" width="200" /></td> <td><br />
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<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPD2jRHcz3I/AAAAAAAAAc0/zz_6J5o0pmg/s1600/gungurru.JPG" width="200" /></td> <td><br />
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<b>My doodley zentangles</b>...including my first ever mandala...<br />
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<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TNALAwJMkFI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/HbxwwL11HeY/s1600/almond+blossom+mandala+pen.JPG" width="200" /></td> <td><br />
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<b>Or my cartoons </b>...a skill I've dabbled in, but never realised I actually had any skill with...<br />
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<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TOpUVDAjjkI/AAAAAAAAAcM/8nK6vorOvX8/s1600/cupid.JPG" width="200" /></td> <td><br />
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Without Art Every Day Month, I wouldn't have any of these artworks, or have met many of the wonderful people who were participating.<br />
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I'd like to thank <a href="http://creativeeveryday.com/about">Leah Piken Kolidas</a> for all her efforts in creating and maintaining the challenge. I would like to thank the wonderful people who have been commenting on my blog and spurring me on. You guys feed my pen and brush and keep me striving. Thankyou for your wonderful words. And many a thanks should also go to the maintainers of the <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/11/challenge-list.html">other challenges</a> that sparked my inspiration along the way.<br />
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I didn't manage a piece of work every day. I didn't even manage to do art every day. But I did all the above and that is one hell of a lot to be thankful for.<br />
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I may have flunked NaNoWriMo twice, but I think I've managed to achieve AEDM, and I'm really happy with what I've done.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(who's not planning on stopping any time soon)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-27304869962142127492010-11-29T22:20:00.001+10:302010-11-29T22:27:15.835+10:30Thriving Artists Project<div align="center"><object height="390" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FWD5YMaJbas&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FWD5YMaJbas&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></embed></object></div><br />
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When I was 7, I decided that I wanted to be an artist.<br />
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I was told the only artist who could make a living was a dead one, and was discouraged from taking that path.<br />
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I'm now 37.<br />
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I want to be an artist.<br />
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And I'm not planning on dying.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(wow, my thirty year anniversary of following my crooked path...perhaps I've finally found a map?)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439322016163009086.post-8783225906643036432010-11-28T23:19:00.002+10:302010-11-29T00:04:14.802+10:30Illustration Friday, Sunday Sketches and AEDMSo do you think I have enough challenges tied into this post? ::grin:: Don't worry, I have a piece for each as today was a good art day.<br />
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</tbody></table>Savour the exhilaration. 'Savour' is the challenge word this week over at <a href="http://www.illustrationfriday.com/">Illustration Friday</a>. All I could think of was hanging in the moment, experiencing that second to its full extent, savouring the exhilaration. A reflection of a moment I experienced several years ago that I wrote about <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/09/inspiring-moment.html">here</a>. There was no lightning in that incident, but I still savoured the moment to its full extent.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPJLK7X0TGI/AAAAAAAAAc4/CwJf74nx5xg/s1600/gungurru2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPJLK7X0TGI/AAAAAAAAAc4/CwJf74nx5xg/s640/gungurru2.JPG" width="622" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Gungurru</b>, gel pen on black card, approx. 200 x 200 mm.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>This <a href="http://creativeeveryday.com/art-every-day-month">Art Every Day Month</a> exercise was a follow through from <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/11/tree-silhouettes-gungurru.html">yesterday's explorations</a>. I had been planning to experiment with white and colours on black, but only managed to buy the pens a few days ago. It didn't scan very well because the pens were metallic and glitter, but I'm happy with the effect in reality. I'm not confident about the composition of this piece, though, and may draw another to correct it.<br />
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<a href="http://bluechairdiary.blogspot.com/2010/11/sunday-sketches_28.html">Sunday Sketches</a> - these are a couple of sketches from this week's adventures.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPJOWVQD6TI/AAAAAAAAAdA/IhzVHMlW9Qg/s1600/cupidsketch.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPJOWVQD6TI/AAAAAAAAAdA/IhzVHMlW9Qg/s400/cupidsketch.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
The prep sketch for <a href="http://ffacets.blogspot.com/2010/11/creative-tuesday-heavenly.html">Cupid</a> for <a href="http://goodteatoo.blogspot.com/2010/11/creative-tuesday-24-heaven-ly-in-colour.html">Creative Tuesday</a> which I didn't manage to enter in the end because my phone line died on Tuesday.<br />
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And the start of a sketch that followed on from the cheeky look on Cupid's face. Nanny Numbat...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPJOuuff0_I/AAAAAAAAAdE/dGpMfMXnjeI/s1600/numbat.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DhJyKAyQ2wU/TPJOuuff0_I/AAAAAAAAAdE/dGpMfMXnjeI/s400/numbat.JPG" width="352" /></a></div>Not finished. Don't know if he ever will be.<br />
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Nutty<br />
(who had a great arty day)Gumnuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500915239832428632noreply@blogger.com23