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So I’ve been to three life drawing sessions in the past few months. Below are my drawings from the sessions arranged in reverse chronological order from the last drawing in the latest session to the first drawing in the first session. I’m enjoying it and will try to go more regularly & see if I get any better. Do you think I’m getting better?

Session3:

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This is an artwork I did 18 years ago. It’s watercolour on an entire checkout paper roll. I was fascinated (and still am) by drawing as pure creative output and spent a month or so painting this pretty much random abstraction. I had it set up so that viewers could wind it by hand from one reel to another, this reel is all that’s left. I’ve been meaning to scan it all in and make a flash based carousel but working out just how to scan it easily is proving difficult.

Scott Bryant organised for most of NDM’s USiT to go to an event called Dr Sketchy a couple of weeks ago. It’s an “anti-art school”, a kind of life drawing come burlesque evening held at the Art House Hotel in the Sydney CDB on a week night. It’s been a long while since i did any drawing from life and i really enjoyed it: good music, a glass of champagne and time dedicated to making marks. Below are some of my better results.

PDF of Kevin Rudd’s speech: Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples
Background note on the Bringing Them Home Report

I thought I might start painting some persistent memories.

Update: Interestingly I realised later I mis-remembered this, she was wearing thick black eyeglasses