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Elephants cooling off

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Always find this the fun, nerve wracking part of creating; the starting block in stages.

I’m loving playing with lights and darks on these grand Elephants and placing them in the murky dark ponds of their natural environment.

Still much more work to get over the finish line with this one.

My kids rep cricket day was a hot one in Melbourne 34 degrees C.

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I always have my sketch gear with me at long cricket days. I figure I get to watch but when I’ve had enough I’ll just sketch. These blokes had no idea they featured in my sketchbook ha!

It was 34 degrees in Melbourne and the game was out in a suburb called Werribee. The field was big, flat with no trees of course. Along way from home. Our team got wiped out so not through to the finals.

Aaaaaahhhhh another hot summer of cricket.

At the beach and lots of fossicking

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I love to fossick on holidays and collect new and interesting things from nature.  Playing with my travel watercolour set; revisting watercolour is always fun and challenging.  At the Beach, love it! I hope to finish a small sequence of at the beach drawings and will post them when done.img_7800

Christmas in Eltham

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Without a doubt each Christmas you can hear Christmas tunes blaring from the loud speakers as the local Fireys travel up down the steep hills around residential Eltham. It’s those regular acts within the local community that bring the neighbourhood out to chat and of course wave to Santa and his firey crew on the back of the big loud red Firetruck. Luv this!