2023-03-26: Late today. Portrait number 39: back to monochrome-ish. Trying to figure out a good complementary to โฆ
2023-03-25: Amazon package got stolen yet again ๐. Honestly think my only option is to shop exclusively at sites โฆ
2023-03-25: Portrait number 38! Trying to ramp up the harsh light. Need better strategies for handling finer โฆ
2023-03-24: Portrait number 37. Screwed up the hair shape a little but can see improvement in lifting out โฆ
2023-03-23: Portrait # 36. Had to make up for the horror show this morning. Starting to get a bit more used to โฆ
2023-03-23: Running really late so a bit of a cop out with this morning’s portrait. Ghoulish skin, sausage โฆ
2023-03-22: Portrait #34. Screwed this one up by going over with fountain pen lines ๐ค
2023-03-21: Portrait #33. Not too happy with it. Been trying to figure out how to blend layers better so I โฆ
2023-03-20: Todays portrait. Number 32. Another attempt at painting Minoli
2023-03-18: Today - for the first time in years - I wandered around a bookshop trying to find something to read. โฆ
2023-03-17: This mornings portrait! Number 31. Trying to see if I can experiment more with warm and cool colours โฆ
2023-03-17: Portrait number 30! That’s one sketchbook half filled with portraits. Hopefully the next one โฆ
2023-03-16: Almost caught up! Portraits 28 and 29. These two didn’t really work. I’m still trying to โฆ
2023-03-16: More and more stories about people exonerated after years in prison/on death row. Yet I don’t โฆ
2023-03-16: Portrait number 27! Wasn’t patient enough to wait for it to properly dry between layers
2023-03-16: Finally finished the big glob of Quinacridone Rose that was on my mixing tray! Can start playing โฆ
2023-03-16: Still trying to use up some of the colours in my palette! Portraits 25 and 26
2023-03-15: Portrait 24! Probably the most convincing shading to create volume, so far. Although I went a bit โฆ
2023-03-14: Portraits 22 and 23. Still unsure how to handle closed eyes
2023-03-14: Just going to race through a bunch of portraits in the middle that I’m not too happy with. โฆ
2023-03-13: Couple more portraits (12 and 13): these are two from Flickr. Hoping more monochrome portraits helps โฆ
2023-03-12: Starting to suspect the colour lights next to the train station is timed so that we always miss the โฆ
2023-03-12: Portrait no 11 is of my wife Minoli. Probably one of the closest likenesses I’ve achieved but โฆ
2023-03-11: This is my favourite of the portraits so far. Number 10. My great uncle again. Feel like I captured โฆ
2023-03-11: Portraits 8 and 9: my Great Uncle came to visit. This whole portrait project actually started โฆ
2023-03-10: Getting a bit better at using the white of the page. Wonky fingers, though. Portraits 5, 6 and 7.
2023-03-10: Really not a fan of the paper in this journal, but pressing on. Portraits 3 and 4
2023-03-10: So, last month I started a project to fill two journals with watercolour portraits. Roughly ~120 โฆ
2023-01-08: Trying something a bit different to get my head around colour theory
2023-01-07: Trying another cityscape
2023-01-07: Another hot day at Queen Victoria markets
2023-01-07: Boat sheds on the Yarra
2023-01-07: Just had the worst bretzel ever. Why are so many baked goods in Australia just normal bread dough โฆ
2023-01-02: Think I might like working at the state library of Victoria
2023-01-02: I want data on what % of librarians wearing headphones while reshelving books are listening to an โฆ
2023-01-01: Breakfassssssst
2022-12-31: It’s pretty hot today ๐๏ธ
2022-12-31: Waiting for the fireworks
2022-12-30: Can’t get more exact than that
2022-12-28: “if wood burning were mostly a working class habit, it would probably have been banned โฆ
2022-12-27: Started to drizzle as I finished ๐ฌ
2022-12-27: Coffee at the art gallery
2022-12-26: Meta drawing
2022-12-26: Reading/scribbling next to the Brisbane river ๐๏ธ
2022-12-25: Three attempts later, finally painted the surfers paradise skyline ๐จ
2022-12-25: Sunny Christmas Day at the beach
2022-12-25: Rousing endorsement of Queensland Art Gallery on Google maps
2022-12-25: Bobble head
2022-12-25: Surfers paradise from above
2022-12-24: Trying to see if I can do some city scapes
2022-12-24: Starting to run low on ink ๐ฌ
2022-12-22: Two attempts at the sunrise this morning. One with slightly more care and patience ๐จ
2022-12-21: Tried painting Minoli again. Lots of cauliflowers and ruined the hair at the end :(
2022-12-21: This one didn’t quite work. Messed up the perspective on the lamps (among lots of other โฆ
2022-12-21: Coffee run!
2022-12-21: Quick out and about sketches
2022-12-19: Went on to Twitter for a few seconds and was immediately greeted with someone being super self โฆ
2022-12-19: Last morning coffee shop visit for a while
2022-12-19: Not a very successful office still life today. Couldn’t quite get the tones right. Office โฆ
2022-12-18: Honestly don’t understand how I survived before it was possible to wear noise cancelling โฆ
2022-12-18: Some more cars
2022-12-18: Picture plane ๐จ
2022-12-18: Quick morning splash. Paper really warping. Need to start always carrying watercolour paper around
2022-12-17: Finally a sunny day! At Queen Victoria markets :)
2022-12-16: Was going pretty good until the traffic blocked my view :(
2022-12-16: Last one for the week. Tried watercolour again. Think I need to make the values darker. Office still โฆ
2022-12-16: Quick train sketch! ๐๏ธ Almost missed my stop
2022-12-14: Was trying some wet in wet but lost control Office still life #12
2022-12-14: Quick train sketch ๐๏ธ Only a few pages left
2022-12-13: Hands are still the worst
2022-12-13: Was on Twitter briefly today and yesterday and realised how much I’m missing the community โฆ
2022-12-13: Recent sketches now on the wall
2022-12-13: Quick morning painting sesh ๐จ
2022-12-12: Had enough time for watercolours this morning :) ๐จ Need to remember to leave more highlights. Office โฆ
2022-12-12: Quick train sketch. ๐๏ธ Really hard to grab poses in the space of one stop ๐ฌ
2022-12-11: Morning cricket ๐๏ธ
2022-12-10: Lining up for ice cream
2022-12-10: Sunny day and lotsa people on phones
2022-12-09: So many bananas! Office still life #10 ๐จ
2022-12-09: Hurry up and wait ๐๏ธ
2022-12-08: Proportions are off :(
2022-12-08: Practicing contrast
2022-12-07: Someone needs to create a course in how to use the various Wait methods in Selenium
2022-12-07: Couldn’t find the fruit today :( Office still life #9 ๐จ
2022-12-07: Sketching along the way. First time I’ve gotten a seat in a while. ๐จ
2022-12-05: Something very funny about the front page of the NSW government’s data website defaulting to โฆ
2022-12-05: Some of the best news for Australian democracy I’ve read in a while. โฆ
2022-12-05: The window
2022-12-04: Is cheese the only positive Monger? ๐ค
2022-12-03: A very sunny day in Geelong
2022-12-03: Almost every art book I read feels the need to include a disclaimer like this. Really sad that itโs โฆ
2022-12-01: Better late than never Office still life #8
2022-12-01: A bit cartoony today
2022-11-30: We have nectarines now! Office still life #7
2022-11-30: Screwed up the perspective :(
2022-11-29: Why isn’t this already a thing in Australia?
2022-11-29: Good Victorians stay the same shape whether or not they are in a container
2022-11-29: Two electricity bills in a row now where the two of us apparently use as much on average as a 5 โฆ
2022-11-28: You’d think with the number of recent data breaches we’d get some stock imagery other โฆ
2022-11-28: Can tell how well Legalise Cannabis did in the Victoria election by how many times @benraue mentions โฆ
2022-11-28: I may need a banana bread recipe. Office still life #6
2022-11-28: Pen ran out of ink :(
2022-11-27: Another sunny day!
2022-11-27: So Mastodon really isn’t cutting it as a link discovery engine. Could just be a function of a โฆ
2022-11-26: So has medical science ever investigated how fรผtballers are able to recover from these apparently โฆ
2022-11-26: Tried to do a 16km trail, got lost, and after ~10kms ended up at a shopping centre eating laksa โฆ
2022-11-25: It’s sunny!
2022-11-25: Incredible they created an encryption in the 1600 hundreds that took experts (and computers) 6 โฆ
2022-11-25: Think the Americans might be celebrating some kind of holiday. Hard to tell though as it’s not โฆ
2022-11-24: No more mandarins :( Office still life #5
2022-11-24: Some morning chaos scribbling
2022-11-24: Nails the issues with previous Star Wars shows www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra…
2022-11-23: Now that everyone is on Mastodon or whatever can we get back to the real war: mainstreaming/bringing โฆ
2022-11-23: Should start putting tracking numbers on the mandarins. Office still life #4
2022-11-23: A bollard fence
2022-11-23: Starting listening to a new audiobook and the narrator has a thick Australian accent. It’s โฆ
2022-11-22: It’s raining :(
2022-11-22: Starting to suspect someone breaks in during the night and uses all the ketchup
2022-11-21: Struggling to think of a more obnoxious sound in a quiet office than a mac booting up (just โฆ
2022-11-21: Trams are sorta hard to scribble
2022-11-21: This is just becoming a rolling argument that I need to eat more mandarins… Office still life โฆ
2022-11-19: Just filled my water bottle up at a tap with a counter claiming it had saved 126k plastic bottles โฆ
2022-11-19: Just finished Welcome to Wrexham… maybe rich Americans taking over really is the answer to โฆ
2022-11-18: Ok. Have deleted my mastodon account. Going to try (try) and do the socials mostly through โฆ
2022-11-18: Someone ate all the bananas! Office still life #2
2022-11-18: Monsterrra…d
2022-11-16: Ok, I lost track of it last time so starting again: Office Still Life #1
2022-11-15: Really like this point: why does one website (usually Twitter in the Anglo press) have to be the โฆ
2022-11-15: Will PNG really stop log exports in 2025? โฆ
2022-11-14: Melbourne giving me strong monsoon vibes rn. Just had to rescue the washing line from heavy, โฆ
2022-11-14: How Chinaโs Imperial Treasures Became a Public Exhibit www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/11/h…
2022-11-13: Ok MCG ๐ take two. Last time it just rained. This time they’re building a stage even though โฆ
2022-11-13: “crypto provides fast-track learning as to why we have banking and broker regulation in the โฆ
2022-11-13: Best thing about sketching in permanent ink is when a pen leaks
2022-11-11: I don’t care what anyone says pumpkin isn’t a squash
2022-11-11: Just testing activitypub :)
2022-11-10: It’s raining :(
2022-11-09: People reading newspapers
2022-11-08: Morning scribbles
2022-11-07: Some weekend scribbles
2022-11-07: Hmmm. Testing cross posting.
2022-10-15: A gloomy fountain No sun today.
2022-10-11: Landscapes are tough First trip to the Yarra Valley and all I got was one stupid painting
2022-10-10: Sketchin in Ballarat
2022-10-09: Grabbing a coffee
2022-10-08: Sunny but freezing
2022-10-02: The Claremont hotel Another lovely sunny day today
2022-10-01: An actual chapel
2022-10-01: Drawing Chapel Temperance Going to start drawing some of the interesting buildings down Chapel โฆ
2022-09-25: Atop the hill Another sunny day near the observatory
2022-09-25: Flinders station again Trying this one again
2022-09-23: Coffee shop sketching Gloomy day today
2022-09-22: Hands are hard Need to come up with a way of practicing drawing hands
2022-09-22: Another sunny sketch First sunny sketch in Melbourne is of Flinders station
2022-09-20: New art space New apartment has a whole corner just for my art stuff! First painting
2022-09-11: Now some trees I always avoid trees and cut them out of my drawings for some reason. But playing โฆ
2022-09-11: Solar powered drawing Had to stop as soon as the sun went behind the building. Starting to realise โฆ
2022-09-11: Goodbye Taylor Square
2022-09-11: Another sunny day Final weekend before moving away. Had to sketch the Sydney Opera House.
2022-09-07: Some more blending Really enjoying this new mediumโs combination of scribbly and blendy
2022-09-07: Non waterproof inks This is way more fun than contouring
2022-09-07: Someone got styled (Itโs not me)
2022-09-04: Another quick coffee
2022-09-03: Some Saturday reads
2022-08-28: Watching some tv
2022-08-28: A basketball man
2022-08-27: Got some brunch Needed to get some Surry Hills experiences in before I move
2022-08-26: Lunchtime sketches #1 At the dog park
2022-08-23: Out of ink Ran out of ink halfway through scribbling this morning!
2022-08-23: Grabbing a drink
2022-08-23: An empty building Been walking past this place for more than a year. Someone make it a restaurant so โฆ
2022-08-14: More Rocks drawings
2022-08-06: Another sunny day
2022-07-31: Sketching round Surry Bit cartoony but also nice to get out in the sun
2022-07-21: Morning scribbles #1
2022-07-17: Sketching the Rocks
2022-06-30: Some changing leaves Quick painting sesh before work :)
2022-06-22: Red blue person This new primary set mixes some nice purples/greys. I think itโs staining my โฆ
2022-06-20: Quick morning sketch Just a few more days with this view every morning
2022-06-17: Lips are hard Not as bad as hands, though.
2022-06-16: Practicing still lifes
2022-06-14: Using it up Some quick head studies to try use up this damn burnt sienna.
2022-06-12: Paper is buckling I should probably buy some better stuff when this runs out. Screwed up the โฆ
2022-06-10: Too much grey Accidentally bought two tubes of grey paint instead of a blue and grey ๐ gonna be a โฆ
2022-06-09: Fineliner and charcoal First time mixing these two mediums. Charcoal really makes it easy to add โฆ
2022-06-08: Scratchy
2022-06-06: Practicing some line
2022-06-05: Need watercolour paper Trying to use up an old visual art diary but canโt work wet in wet ๐ค
2022-06-04: Pot plantsss
2022-06-04: By the beach
2022-05-31: Searching for a 300 page book just on how to draw hands
2022-05-29: Bennyโs review of King Arthur
2022-05-29: Got some charcoals :)
2022-05-26: Donโt know about these new water brushes
2022-05-26: Chinese youth areโฆ. tanking? www.theguardian.com/world/202…
2022-05-25: Work work work
2022-05-25: Started scribbling again
2019-09-08: Cat! ๐ฑ๐ฐโ๏ธ
2019-08-29: Iโll sing you a song a song of the sea ๐ถ๐ฌ๐งโ๏ธ
2019-08-29: Back in London for a few days โ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง
2019-08-29: ๐ค โ๏ธ๐ญ๐บ
2019-08-26: Trying some new colour combinations in Budapest โ๏ธ๐ญ๐บ
2019-08-24: Bought some orange crayons ๐โ๏ธ๐ญ๐บ
2019-08-24: Loving these trees lining the streets in Budapest โ๏ธ๐ญ๐บ
2019-08-20: Another view of the Temple of St Nicholas (yup) โ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ
2019-08-20: The clock tower in Bratislava โ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ
2019-08-20: TFW you forget to leave enough room on the page for the steeple of the church โ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ
2019-08-19: Morning from Bratislava Castle ๐ โ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ
2019-08-18: Beers by the river in Bratislava โ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฐ
2019-08-18: I thought I was drawing someone else but I now I realise this is just me sitting in the sun in โฆ
2019-08-18: Last one from Vienna - Belvedere Palace โ๏ธ๐ฆ๐น
2019-08-14: Waiting for the art gallery to open ๐ดโ๏ธ๐ฆ๐น
2019-08-14: Day by the canals in Vienna โ๏ธ๐ฆ๐น
2019-08-11: Some kind of ministry building in Prague ๐ค โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฟ
2019-08-10: The Overlook Hotel/Prague palace โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฟ
2019-08-09: A couple of days by the Vltava river in Prague โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฟ
2019-08-07: Toooooorists โ๏ธ๐จ๐ฟ
2019-08-04: Couple more from Krakow ๐ฌ I only came to Poland cause I was โin the areaโ but damn is this country โฆ
2019-08-03: Krakow Kathedral ๐ฑ there are too many buildings to draw in this city โ๏ธ๐ต๐ฑ
2019-07-30: Before and after ๐ค โ๏ธ๐ต๐ฑ
2019-07-29: Warsaw is damn pretty tbh โ๏ธ๐ต๐ฑ
2019-07-27: Saw a guy with pigtails in his beard and am now sorely tempted (shitty artists approximation) โ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ช
2019-07-25: โชGreatest thing yesterday was finding a pub with a MASSIVE selection of international beers. And โฆ
2019-07-24: Scribbling from Dublin castle ๐ โ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ช
2019-07-24: โชTFW you buy a โpotโ of tea and the pot turns out to be the same size as a cup ๐โฌ ๐ฎ๐ช
2019-07-21: TFW you canโt figure out what these rebellious scum are up too ๐ฎ๐ช
2019-07-20: The murals in Belfast are absolutely spectacoolah ๐ฌ๐ง
2019-07-20: Lovely labor union murals in Belfast, too ๐ ๐ฌ๐ง
2019-07-13: Your humble correspondent is in Edinburgh and neither draw hands nor collars ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
2019-07-12: Out a pub window in Stirling ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
2019-07-11: View out my hostel window in Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
2019-07-03: Charles Dickensโ ladder and pond pump @ the Charles Dickens Museum ๐ท ๐ฌ๐ง
2019-06-30: St Johnโs chapel, Tower of London ๐๐ฌ๐ง
2019-06-26: Walking through the gold souk in Dubai ๐ฆ๐ช ๐
2019-06-13: Sick today ๐ค so decided to shoot a video on my phone of my turtle in the rain ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ฅ
2019-06-10: Thereโs really nothing like being inside when thereโs a monsoon pour outside ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐
2019-06-07: Monsoon thumping on the garage ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ต Raindrops keep falling on my head ๐ถ
2019-06-06: Feeding the elephants ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ท
2019-06-05: Baby elephant doing swimming zooms at Pinnawala elephant orphanage ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ท
2019-05-31: Temple dog ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ท
2019-05-30: Interlude ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ท
2019-05-08: Beach day in Mt Lavinia ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ท These guys are really hurting from the crash in tourism
2019-04-26: Played billiards with my Grandpa last weekend ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ท
2019-04-18: A puppy in a bar in Galle, ๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐ท