Tag / blind drawing

by Leonie Andrews

Holiday Drawings

It shouldn’t surprise me, but being ‘on holiday’ suddenly frees up time to paint and draw; when it is equally possible to do the same thing in everyday life.

Here are some images from early this month when we took a visiting relative to the coast and around Canberra and drawing became an everyday activity!

The cliff at Depot Beach, those drooping casuarinas are really hard to capture.

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A blind drawing of a chair with books and bottles.

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Three blind drawings and water colours done at the National Botanic gardens.

Looking at the sky through the branches of a eucalypt.

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The deeply fissured bark of Eucalyptus amplifolia, the Cabbage Gum.

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The remnant flower stalks of the Gymea Lily, Doryanthes excelsa.

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by Leonie Andrews

Colouring

I’ve been playing around with long stitch on even count canvas lately, my own designs rather than pre-designed kits. I decided to use some of my drawings as the basis for some stitching. The colour is quite strong after a simple line drawing.

I’m keeping the canvas to the same size as the original drawings, in this case 15 X 20 cms. Here is my 2 January drawing of jugs transposed into long stitch.

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I quite like the jugs floating against the space of the blank canvas.

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The final version turned out to be more ‘decorative’ than I had intended, mainly because I wasn’t sure that I would have sufficient thread to complete the background. Of course it may well have been more interesting if I had sewn as much background as I could with the thread I had and then filled in with the second colour.