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I am an artist of the landscape of common objects. Discarded items and suburban life fuel my art practice.
by Leonie Andrews

Guerilla Bay

We spent Sunday down the coast (a two hour drive from our place), snorkelling at Guerilla Bay on the New South Wales South coast. This sheltered bay is divided into two scalloped coves by the most amazingly distorted rock formations. It is thought that the original layers of sedimentary rock, laid down on the ocean floor, were subsequently subsumed into a subduction zone turning them into the warped shapes they are today.

All drawings were made with watercolour pencils on 200gsm paper.

Portion of the central rocks dividing Guerilla Bay, 23 February 2014.

Portion of the central rocks dividing Guerilla Bay, 23 February 2014.

The view of the curving rocks at the northern end of the cove was equally dramatic.

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Northern cliff face, Guerilla Bay, 23 February 2014.

To round out the drawings today I drew our snorkelling gear washed out and drying after a great day.

Snorkelling gear drying in the sun, 24 February 2014.

Snorkelling gear drying in the sun, 24 February 2014.

by Leonie Andrews

E-draw

I’m flitting around trying out a whole lot of different drawing techniques at present. I have several drawing programs on my phablet (Galaxy Note2), the S-Note program which is what I usually draw with and I also have the PS Touch (Photoshop) app. I use regular Photoshop quite a bit so the PS Touch is reasonably familiar, or will be once I can find where all the tools are located! Anyway I was prompted by this post to give my  PS Touch app another go. Another artist I find has a particularly interesting e-drawing style is 3eCheval from Quebec. I love the stripped back quality of her work which reminds me of screen prints.

My first effort with the PS Touch turned out just like one of my S-Note drawings, mainly because I wasn’t thinking enough about utilising the layering process.

Painting with door. 18 February 2014

Painting with door. 18 February 2014

I think my second drawing, if not an artistic masterpiece, at least used the layers to better effect. I was able to erase back to different layers and I found swapping between layers much easier than on my big computer.

PS Touch drawing 18 February 2014.

PS Touch drawing 18 February 2014.

I suppose at this early stage of e-drawing my biggest suggestion would be that if you are using a stylus to draw,  select the finer ‘pen’ settings to draw with. I at least find them a lot easier to control than larger size ‘pens’ and ‘brushes’.

by Leonie Andrews

Moving cafes

Oh no, one of my favourite cafes is closed for renovation! So today I had to find a new place to draw. I’m also drawing on my new book. I’ve been doing a bit of re-cycling of old magazines and envelopes to make drawing surfaces. This square-ish book has been made from a magazine which promotes its ‘green’ credentials, so I feel well justified in re-using its pages. Anyway here is the new view.

The view from the new cafe.

The view from the new cafe.