tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21553954352048318632024-03-14T20:49:53.684+13:00Felicity DeverellAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09236427388687907490noreply@blogger.comBlogger288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155395435204831863.post-39307360899493461332016-03-27T17:40:00.001+13:002016-04-07T23:33:57.832+12:00New Blog/website Home!<div style="text-align: center;">
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In the front of the garage where we now live is a smaller room which Caleb and I have converted into our work space the 'Site'. As with the back room we layered cardboard over the cold, hard concrete floor and then replaced the carpet in an effort to make the place a bit more comfortable and not so cold on the feet. During the first couple of weeks after we arrived in Christchurch we spent a bit of time setting up our little home and carried a lot of pallet wood, mattress, cardboard, etc through the streets back to the flat ( called the 'Habitat' ) on our heads or on our bikes as feet or peddle are our only means of transport here (Buses are not for poor students except in extreme necessity).<br />
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Caleb did a bit of furniture making also -- or furniture alterations-- including extending a small desk for me for more table space and leg room, and making a tabouret for me out of an old desk on wheels. This will be very handy for painting on, and I just need to locate a sheet of glass for the top as a pallet. I still need to find or create an easel of some kind. Maybe something like the one demonstrated <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3GPSL7SyXg&wide" target="_blank">in this video</a>.<br />
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I am all set up to start plein air painting and have just primed fifteen small boards on which to paint en plein air as well as some larger boards for studio painting. I am using traditional oil primer for the first time and using rabbit skin glue for the first time to seal the boards before applying primer. Rabbit skin glue is a traditional glue that has been used for sealing canvas or wood panels for hundreds of years. It comes in dry form in tiny pieces which is soaked 3 to 10 in water and then you melt it in a double boiler and paint on all surfaces of the board to seal it. In my research some sources recommended applying it cold as a gel, but others said that it worked better and soaked into the wood applied hot. I applied it hot, and warm as it cooled down. If any of my readers know anything about it I would love to hear your comments as to the correct way.<br />
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I'm planning to do a lot of plein air work, explore the city and get out and about. It's becoming more of an arts city since the earthquakes and all of the damage from them. I don't know why people still live here it is so unstable the ground could skake and any time. Since I've been here I have already experienced two skakes, one was big enough to have the university evacuated. So why am I living here for that matter? well for love and study I guess.<br />
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Back on the internet again, under a new name! I am now Mrs Bergstrom! I was married on the 9th of January to an amazing man, Caleb Bergstrom who has appeared now and again in the background of this blog and who helped begin The Art of a Hut project.<br />
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Here are a couple of wedding photos which were taken by my very talented sister who has a photography business, you can see more of her work here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LuceBiancaPhotography/" target="_blank">Luce Bianca Photography</a>.<br />
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Being married is ideal and now there will be no more long distance calls and living only for the holidays. Now, I am married to the engineering student and get to share in his daily life of highs and lows. I am now in Christchurch which shall be my home for a year or two while Caleb completes two more years as a forestry engineering student. We have moved into the garage of his flat which is now composed of five guys and me.<br />
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We have two little rooms in the garage and the front room has been converted into a studio 'Site' For us both, but with all my painting supplies I'm beginning to take over most of the room... Last week and this I have been biking about the city finding the best stores for art supplies. Coming from a small town in the far north to living in one of the main cities of New Zealand is a little overwhelming and the art shops here have so many of the equipment and tools I'd only heard of before, or would have to order online. It was as good as being in a chocolate shop with a dollar to spend.<br />
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Now that I have come back to my blog again I plan to write a lot more here than last year, and post images of my future paintings and drawings so look out for more from me soon. As well as my newsletter which I will email soon.<br />
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I am also working on a new portfolio website as blogger is a bit limited in that department. I will still keep this blog up... Though I will have to do something about updating the header.<br />
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I have now finished the online catalogue of all the work which was included in The Art of a Hut exhibition. All pictures are now for sale directly from me.<br />
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During the last week of the exhibition my brother from Incredible Motion NZ filmed me talking about each picture. Each hut I tramped to has it's own story to go with it and I could have talked for twice as long about each one but that would have made the video way to long.<br />
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Field Hut,Charcoal and pastel on paper. 575 x 475mm, Kauri Frame</div>
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Finally all the framing done! All my forty works for <a href="http://felicitydeverell.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-art-of-hut.html" target="_blank">The Art of a Hut Collection</a> art down at the gallery in Whagarei and I helped hang half of them on Monday, 9th. Next Monday the other two rooms of the gallery will be available and then my work will full the entire gallery for two weeks. That explains why the opening evening is not until Wednesday the 18th, I wanted to have that when all my pictures would be up on display.</div>
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Here are some photos of the pictures freshly framed and just before we took them all of down to the gallery. They look really stunning in their kauri frames beautifully made by my boat-builder father. We borrowed a mat board cutter and I cut all the mats myself. The black mat edge looks really good, and hanging on the gallery walls they look amazing. I hope to get some good photos and videos at the gallery to share with those of you who can't make it there.</div>
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Everyone is welcome to come to the opening evening which is on Wednesday 18th November 2015 from 5:30 - 7pm. Here is a <a href="http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=62d8572a08857ce484d178868&id=053d6a1cba&e=0afc649471" target="_blank">link to that invitation</a> and to my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1073893452621112/" target="_blank">event page</a> on facebook.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 'I am a young and ambitious artist from the Far North. Beauty, Art, and Adventure are my inspirations. Learning the craft of painting and conveying, in the language of art, the beauty and emotion that I see and feel is my passion. I love landscape painting, and working en plein air (in open air) combines this perfectly with my love of the outdoors. I am at the beginning of my journey as an artist and already it has taken me places I had never heard of before. For the past two years I have been exploring the wilderness while working on a collection of drawings and paintings of North Island backcountry huts. I have tramped to and drawn or painted forty-five huts in the Kaimais, Te Ureweras, Kawekas, Ruahines, Tararuas Ranges, the Whanganui National Park, Orongorongo Valley, and sailed to a few down the coast of Northland. I aim to continue traveling to new places with my work, learning from the masters of the past and present, and, in turn, contributing my own visions of beauty and life.' -Felicity Deverell</span></i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></blockquote>
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I am Felicity Deverell, a young Northland artist with a passion for traditional
art and for adventure in the beautiful outdoors. Two years ago, with the help of
my friend, Caleb Bergstrom, I had an idea for creating a collection of artworks
portraying backcountry huts. There are over one thousand huts throughout the
bush, mountain ranges, and national parks of New Zealand along a large network
of tramping tracks. Before I meet Caleb I didn’t know much about these huts,
except for the one near us at Lane Cove, Whangaroa Harbour. But over the last
two years I have been amazed at how many there are and how unique these huts are
to our country. Not many countries have such a well established system of huts
which you can tramp to through amazing scenery and stay at for a small amount.
The cost of huts vary, some are free to stay in and are very basic, having only
a water supply and perhaps a smoky fire. Others are more expensive and newly
built with double glassing and gas, in popular tourist areas these even require
booking. There is something for everyone and every hut is a new experience. Many
of these huts are full of New Zealand history, of settlers, shepherds, hunters,
trappers and deer cullers, and tramping and climbing enthusiasts; the stories
that go with them all would full many books.<br />
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For the last two years I have been on several tramping/drawing trips
lasting weeks at a time to the various ranges in the North Island. I have
tramped to and drawn forty-five huts in the Kaimais, Te Ureweras, Kaweka,
Ruahine, and Tararua Ranges, the Orongorongo Valley, and the Whanganui National
Park. I have mostly done graphite, pastel, or charcoal drawings of the huts, but
for a few huts I have taken in my oil paints and painted ‘en plein air’, as it
is called in painters terms, meaning painting in the open air. At each hut in
sun, rain, fog, or snow I would set up with an easel, or just a drawing board on
my lap to draw the hut. I had to figure out a few things about how to carry art
supplies and paper without getting it damaged in pretty rough conditions. I also
took along my sketchbooks one of which I filled entirely with watercolour
sketches of various dunnies, which is what the toilets, or long drops, are know
as.<br />
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We had all sorts of adventures along the way and meet interesting
people. We met people walking the length of New Zealand, we met hunters,
trappers, families tramping with babies, and young people like us out for an
adventure. I ate possum for the first time (and then a few times after that) and
we also had on the menu: venison, goat, pig, eel, and trout, to go with our rice
and porridge. I discovered the whole culture of tramping and how addictive it
is to get back out there into the middle of nowhere. There is nothing like
looking back over a huge expanse of sky and a panoramic view after climbing for
hours on end, it’s a view that is earned and is all the more beautiful for the
sweat on your back. Then there is that first sight of a hut after hours of
tramping through a never ending bush. That hut, in the middle of nowhere, means
rest, food, shelter, warmth, and a good sleep. A very beautiful sight, all
tampers and hunters will agree, and one which I have tried to capture in my
artwork. Glorifying these humble huts made of tin or slabs of roughly hewn
timber, not simply for the sake of a good art, but to show them through the eyes
of those who see them after long hours of tramping or hunting in rough terrain,
when even the most rugged hut seems magnificent, has been my goal. <br />
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In between trips out into the bush I have been at home in my studio
working on some larger paintings using the materials gathered from the field.
There will be about ten of these painting at my exhibition, but most of the work
on display will be my original drawings completed on site at the huts. These
have been beautifully framed by my very skilled father in native kauri wood. All
the works will be for sale at The Art of a Hut exhibition which is being held at
Reyburn House, Whangarei for three weeks from the 10th until the 29th of
November. I have an opening evening to which the public is invited to attend on
the evening of the 18th from 5 – 7pm. There, you will get a chance to meet me
and everybody who has been involved and hear our stories over a drink and a few
nibbles. I would love to see you there and I am excited to share my adventures
and my art. <br />
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I would like to thank Caleb Bergstrom without whom this would never have
got beyond an idea, and who has taught me that I am capable of more than I
think, and shown me how to love - we are getting married in January . When Caleb
went away to University and I thought I’d be left on my own to do it I came to
realize that I have some truly amazing friends. Guillaume Bourdin has been my
right hand man and has helped me organize for many trips and kept me on track.
Thank you to him and to Thomas Bourdin, Pauline Bourdin, Jojo Land, Lewis
McCullum, Nathaniel Deverell, Jerusalem Gilbert, Marion Bourdin, Luc Bourdin,
Dominic Land, and Esther Sommerson, all of whom have come with me on various
tramping ‘hut hops’ and without whom I could never have completed The Art of a
Hut project. I would also like to thank Swazi who helped us a little with the
project and DOC who gifted me a hut pass.</div>
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And it’s not all over yet because next year I will be working a book
about the experiences of an artist in the bush, about the adventures we had and
the lessons learnt. I don’t know when or how it will be published yet, but it
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiwi Mouth Hut, Kawekas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Manson Hut, Kawekas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back Ridge Hut, Kawekas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the end of a tramp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Range Hut, Tararuas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arete Forks Hut., Tararuas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow in the Tararuas</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dominic,. Marion, Pauline, Guillaume, me, and Jojo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caleb and I in Ellis Hut, Ruahines</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and Caleb at Sunrise Hut, Ruahines</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikau Hut in the Orongorongo Valley, with Jerusalem</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ballard Hut, Kaweka Ranges</td></tr>
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As I mentioned in my last post, in the beginning, when <a href="http://felicitydeverell.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-art-of-hut.html" target="_blank">The Art of a Hut</a> project was still only an idea, Caleb and I tried contacting a lot of companies and organizations for sponsorship. We had not much success in that area, but we had one answer which was really positive and encouraging. This was from Swazi who were really encouraging about our project and donated to Caleb and I a $200 voucher each for their store.</div>
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<a href="http://www.swazi.co.nz/" target="_blank">Swazi</a> is a New Zealand outdoor clothing store which proudly make all there clothing in their factory in Levin. I was able to have a peek behind the scenes one time when we visited the store last year. Each piece is made entirely by one seamstress and her name is printed on a label inside each garment she completes. It is a really nice touch, everything about Swazi speaks of quality and passion about what they do. </div>
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So i would just like to say thank you Swazi, you are awesome and we think you are amazing at what you do and for keeping it in Kiwi! Caleb wears his Swazi stubbies all around the university where he is now, and I love my Swazi woolen socks. My bush shirt also has been awesome, and various pieces of pencil and charcoal and paper have collected in there very conveniently, I even wore it in the self portrait I painted. </div>
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At the beginning of this adventure when I was still wondering how it would all happen and had not much money to make a lot happen, I contacted many businesses and organizations thinking that sponsorship would be the answer. But, in the end, it wasn't. I don't have a job, I'm a full time artist who just doesn't make much money yet. I have been able to live at home still thanks to my amazingly supportive parents - I cook and clean for my keep. And what little money I might earn from selling art has all gone towards <a href="http://felicitydeverell.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-art-of-hut.html" target="_blank">The Art of a Hut</a> project. Somehow I've always had just enough, and when it's needed the money comes. Life is like that when you just trust and go for it. Passion and love defies logic. There have been times when a trip we had planned was coming up or I need to pay for more art supplies or buy contacts, so I can see (my glasses got lost along the way and I can't afford new ones - yet!), and every time, at the last minute, the money would come. I was donated money from some wonderful people who follow my adventures, and at other times just when I should have been panicking an email pops up and I've sold a painting! And all my friends have been incredible, everyone wanted to come along for a tramping holiday and so we split the costs of the food and travel between us. And when we were all tight on money we hitched and meet some amazing and some unique people on the road!</div>
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It is a good thing I never started all this to make money. I think that for some people it is a strange concept to accept, this naive disregard for money that I have. I have spent two years of life and career on a project that has no great return in profit, At very best I might get the equivalent of half a years minimum wage for my over two years worth of work. But believe me, I'm far better of and happier than I would have been at a stable job with a regular wage. I get to live my dreams while I work, rather than work while dreaming of what I can do with the money I'll earn. I am very blessed to be able to do this. </div>
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If I were a better sales person I might be able to make money our of this little project. I could have put huge amounts of energy into promoting and marketing my art and making prints and cards and calendars, la de da, talk to the right people and bingo. Exciting as that all is it is also an exhausting thought for me, and in a way kills the very reason for what I'm doing. WHY am I doing this then? Just like any other real artist out there I'm just indulging a passion of mine and trying to find a way to make that possible. It is a passion that requires a lot of hard work and dedication, but that comes willingly when you love what you do. I do this because it's what I would do if money were no object. Because I love art and beautiful pictures, beautiful places and I think that that is important. It is far more important than we know to have beauty in our lives and the artists are those who should be there to fill that need. </div>
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So, for me, if, at the end of the exhibition, I have sold none of my pictures I wouldn't count it a failure. Yes, of course, it would be very discouraging, but it wouldn't change a single thing that I have done so far. It wouldn't take away from anything that I have learnt about tramping, about my own country, about drawing and painting in the wilderness in rain snow and sun, and about putting together an exhibition, and finally seeing the result of all my efforts all together in a beautiful display. These are invaluable lessons and experiences. As an artist and as a person I've grown so much and I'm not so afraid to do new things any more.</div>
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Whangaroa harbour to Whangarei Heads and back in seven days and via four huts.</div>
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Saturday 17th morning early, here we go. All our gear into the car, 'don't forget the oars!' and down the road two minutes to the harbour and the boat ramp. Nathaniel rows out to Destiny and motors her around to the wharf while Guillaume and I unload our gear. I drive the car home and run all the way back to the wharf with a bag of frozen bait, almost forgotten. (We never caught any edible fish on our one and only hook.)</div>
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And here is what they saw looking down from the top: Destiny is the little white dot in the corner.</div>
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Looking out the harbour heads down towards the Cavalli Islands.</div>
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I finished painting at about three and we carried on down to the Cavalli Islands. Out of the harbour a little wind picked up and sent us down to Flat Island where the first and last damage to the boat happened. The boat was rocking a bit down over the rolling waves, and since the wind was light the boom kept banging about a bit. Nathaniel made a quick tie to the stay to keep it quiet and it worked well. A little while later Guilluame, looking back, suddenly said 'is the dingy supposed to be over there?' No, indeed not. She had shaken her painter loose from the cleat and had decided to go off on her own adventures. Of course, we weren't letting her get away that easily so up we round into the wind with Nathaniel yelling orders to pull in the sheets. He himself yanked in the main sheet Sails were flapping and suddenly we heard a loud BANG. The kind of bang that sounds like an awful lot of force on something has just made it give way. I had no idea at first what it could be, then Nathaniel was swearing and ordering the sails down, and I saw the stay swinging loose from it's fitting. </div>
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The stay had come out of it's crimping where it joined the deck fitting when Nathaniel had hauled in the boom which he had forgotten in the rush was tied to the stay. Sails down, motor on, retrieve the dingy and then survey the damage. Nathaniel had it worked out in a jiffy. He tied a bowline in the wire than lashed that down with rope. They had to loosen off the opposite stays to get it tight enough but it worked well and got us there and back. So I motored onward while they patched us up, soon the sails were back up and we got to the Cavallis before dark.</div>
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The Cavalli Islands are a beautiful place. The water is so clear you can see the bottom thought it is still very deep. We anchored of Motukawanui Island in Waiiti Bay. Sunday morning I got up early at 7:30, though this turned out to be the latest we slept during the whole voyage. I did a painting of Motukawanui hut which was set back a little way from the beach among young replanted native trees. At first I was depressed at the sight in front of me. Just another hut in scenery that could be anywhere in New Zealand. I wanted to paint the water and the bay and the islands. I found a compromise between the two and painted the hut from the back and up the hill slightly so that I was looking over the roof and into the bay. </div>
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I was happy with my view now, but my painting didn't turn out so well. To begin with the sea was almost white like the sky, but as I painted and the sun came out it became a dark blue, and what with chasing these values about my painting ended up a bit of a mess. But then I did a sketch on the beach of our little yellow dingy and that cheered me up.<br />
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When I had finished there we had lunch on the boat and lifted anchor for the Bay of Islands. This was another lovely sail with favorable winds. We got to Urupukapuka Island in about five hours. I took a few photos while we sailed down. Since I don't have a camera all these were taken off my and Guillaume's phones. So that is why the slightly old fashioned look to them! Let's just say it's another form of art. We did have a little pretend GoPro thing which we took a few videos with. I will putting together a video for YouTube out of our footage.</div>
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It was a little rough and windy to land in the little dingy on the North side, so we motored around and Guillaume dropped me off in a little rocky cove on the other side from where I climbed up the cliff path to the hut.<br />
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A few hours of painting and a quick sketch of the lighthouse later and Guillaume picked me up again in the dingy with a rope rowlock. We had lost one to the deep and the seaweed when he had dropped me off. We saw a couple of seals playing in the water in the cove as we rowed back out to Destiny. They were very beautiful and graceful and look so much better in the water than they do stranded on a rock. Back on Destiny it was lunch time then down to Whangaruru Harbour. </div>
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Below, behind Guillaume, is a glimpse of my painting of the Cavalli hut if you are wondering what that looks like!<br />
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A stop off for the night and up in the dark morning to motor out of the harbour again. This morning there was barely any wind and we bobbed about the sea for a while before it picked up. During the lull I found myself on Nathaniels laptop writing emails and about gallery and organization. Shocking isn't it when you can't get away from that kind of office work even on a boat these days.. Help!</div>
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Soon a south/west wind came up which was a slow sail against. We decided to go into Tutukaka harbour and bought some more diesel at the marina there. We wandered about found beautiful toilets with hot running water. And a general store. We had convinced ourselves that we were going to starve as we hadn't brought nearly as much food as we would on a tramping trip, so it seemed. So we found a General store and the only thing we came back with was some ice which we found dumped on the ground outside. It kept out chili bin cold for another day. Other than that we bought icecream and chocolate, because some of us were on holiday.</div>
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Here my brother and his family came down with fish and chips and brought along his drone. Nathaniel has his own racing drone which is his latest passion and is what he dose when not sailing. So they flew around all evening.<br />
Here is a link to my brother's YouTube Channel. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFo7kQJm1x9Ef9oNel9SLQg" target="_blank">Incredible Motion NZ.</a><br />
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Tutukaka to Whangarei, day four, started off another still morning which gradually picked up and gradually the wind went around to a nicer direction down to the heads. We got to Whangarei and around into a sheltered bay at 11am.<br />
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And then, after lunch, it was time for some walking. Guillaume and I started off up Mt. Lion and over into Peach Cover. The sign said three hours so we were happy with our 1.5hours and on the return trip we took only an hour to take the over 1000 steps up along and down the mountain. Peach Cover hut is hidden in the bush 800 steep steps straight down from the ridge and still a wee way above the rocky shore below. Slightly disappointing for a painter sailing all this way, and having no view beyond the hut, but that's what creativity is for isn't it. I climbed a big pohutukawa tree growing up over a huge boulder and sat on a branch to do a sketch of the hut. While I was there and Guillaume had gone off to explore a path to the beach a whole troupe of people arrived below me. I silently kept on drawing and being entertained until eventually they caught sight of me and the joke was shared all round.<br />
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After I finished the drawing and had scrambled out of the tree with almost numb legs I started a painting of the hut from the beginning of the track. The group of people were students on a field trip and while I painted I listened to the talk about snails and birds which was very interesting and Guillaume sat among them on the deck and acted as my spokesperson. Very nice not to have to answer questions over and over again while I am painting! Painting was done some hours later and a few more people might come to see my exhibition in Whangarei now. </div>
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Here is the view from the top of Mt. Lion and me with the little video camera and paint all over my hands. The coast behind me is one we had sailed down that morning and would sail up again the next day. It was nice to be walking along a bush track again, even if it did roll from side to side as if we were on a floating island.</div>
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It was the last morning on the trip we woke up to -- we were already awake for the next one. We had been thinking about sailing right up through the night to get home quickly. Watching the weather we saw a lot of wind and rain coming on the Saturday, it was Thursday morning and it had taken us four days to get down to Whangarei. But without having to stop anywhere we might make it up in two. We did that. The wind was against us still, one tight tack up to Cape Brett where the sun went down and we met the dusk.</div>
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I did a quick sketch before I got too sick of the approaching Cape Brett, and of Guillaume at the helm staring at the point. Just past the Cape it got dark and the moon showed her light and the stars appeared. It took us all night tacking against the wind to get to the other side of the Bay of Islands! Guillume sailed all night with me on the deck to keep him awake while Nathaniel caught a bit of sleep below. It was nice sailing at night, the moon went away and we could see some amazing phosphorescence in the water which made an occasional white cap glow and left a trail behind us like the shooting stars above us-- only a very slow one. </div>
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The sunrise was amazing and glowing orange, but I remember it dimply through half closed eyes. I fell asleep on the deck after Nathaniel came up again and took the helm and Guillaume stumbled down into the cabin half asleep already. The sun was well up when I properly woke up. A pod of dolphins came by. They were tearing down the waves heading into the Bay. They tried surfing at our bow wave but there wasn't that much there to surf. The wind was still against us and the GPS was telling us it would take another 7 hours to get to the Cavalli Islands at that rate. Nathaniel started up the engine and we got there in two. </div>
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She motors well and cuts right through the waves without hesitation. It was very nice to know we were going to get home that day. Past the Cavalli Islands the wind was nice and gaining strength for one long tack into Whangeroa Harbour, the Jewel of the North. It was very nice to be home have a shower and sleep. The land was rocking like crazy, and I thought it would go on for days, but by the time I woke up again after a long sleep the land was still again.</div>
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Now, I have only two weeks to go until the exhibition in Reyburn House, Whangarei. It goes from the 10th to the 29th of Novermber 2015. I hope you will be able to make it to see all what I've been working on for the last two years. If not I am sure I will take lots of photos of video of it all. I am also having an opening evening or reception for everyone who has helped me and friends and family and anyone who is interested in the project and wants to come along. That will be during the first week and I will let you know the date in my Newsletter which will be coming our later this week.<br />
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Inktober is going strong still. I've been sharing my ink drawings every day on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Felicity-Deverell-Artist-244714375587985/timeline/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel" target="_blank">facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/felicityffaith/inktober-2015-felicity-deverell-artist/" target="_blank">Pintrest</a>, except for this weekend when I was away with friends. I took my sketchbook, of course, and managed to draw every day, though they were are a bit sketchy!<br />
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Next week I will be out on the boat with my brother and a friend. I will be painting the coast huts between here, (Whangaroa) and Whangeri. It's going to be lots of fun, hopefully we have good weather and lots of wind to get us places.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">This is Destiny, my brother's 22ft yacht which we will be voyaging on. I'm sure we will take lots of photos of the trip which I will share in a couple of weeks when we get home again. And hopefully with some successful paintings also!</span><br />
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This will be the last hut hop before the Art of a Hut exhibition in Novermber from the 10th to the 29th. Remember those dates, I hope you will get a chance to pop in one day to see the results of my last two years of work.<br />
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Here are the first 11 days of my #inktober drawings.<br />
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I found out about <a href="http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober" target="_blank">Inktober</a> last October about halfway through the month, then I forgot all about it until today when I came across it again on a blog I follow! So glad I decided to give my blog some attention today.</div>
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Inktober began with one artist setting himself a personal challenge to ink every day for the month of October. Pretty soon this idea caught on and Inktober became a Thing. I think it's a fun thing so this year I will be joining in with thousands of other artists all around the world. And of course you don't even have to consider yourself an artist to do this. Just a couple minutes every day, or a couple hours if you have them handy, and that's all. There's nothing in the rules about having to have a perfect drawing, just put ink on paper, date it and you're done. Out of the 31 consecutive drawings I'll do, I'll think it had been worth my time if I just got a few good drawings. It's about the practice. </div>
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It is simply a personal challenge to draw and ink or pen drawing on each day of the month of October, that's 31 days. The rules from the Inktober page are:</div>
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Here is my drawing for the first day of October. Because spring is here and we can all go barefoot!<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"> My mind was half out of the window when I drew this, Tigger was grazing in the garden and I didn't want him to have a go at my lettuces. All he got was half a mouthful of parsley.</span></div>
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And just to share some inspiration here are a few boards from a few artists from previous years.</div>
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I got to 220 and used a lot of pen.</div>
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I hope you take up the challenge with me! I'll also be posting every day on </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09236427388687907490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155395435204831863.post-37665964170482707712015-08-14T11:11:00.000+12:002015-08-14T11:11:35.030+12:00Falling in Love<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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When you fall in love you don't just 'fall in love' and that is it. It is a growing process and the more you love the more you are able to love. That is just like painting with me. After spending the last few weeks really immersing myself in learning about art and watching some long demonstration videos from amazing artists like Morgan Weistling and Jeff Watts, I'm all caught up in this affair, which is going to be one which will hang on to me for the rest of my life I'm afraid...<br />
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I've been learning so much and trying to put it into practice in my own paintings, which I'll share photos of in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Felicity-Deverell-Artist/244714375587985?sk=app_100265896690345" target="_blank">my newsletter</a> next week. Sometimes it works and I'm on top of the world thinking I've finally getting it! And then a couple of hours of painting later I realize that this painting thing really is an impossible mystery and the great artists are just some extraordinary people with gifts that only they are born with. My love affair is elusive; hopeful and hopeless by turns, but when you are in love you never give up and everything is possible. I'll keep on going and one day perhaps I will be able to paint like some of the worlds greatest painters. Here are some of their works that inspire me and lead me on.<br />
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This was my painting at the beginning of the week. It is a painting of Blue Range Hut in the Tararuas. It's one of my pieces for the <a href="http://felicitydeverell.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-art-of-hut.html" target="_blank">Art of a Hut</a> exhibition at the end of this year. All I have to go by is my drawing and a rather bad photo from an entirely different angle which has only been helpful to see how the moss grows on trees so far. It is quite a challenge painting almost entirely from my head. It is still far from finished and this is how it looks today, Friday.<br />
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I haven't been working full time on it so there is still a lot more to do on it. I will finish it this week. I have also been doing a lot of drawing. This is the longest drawing from this week, a portrait of Marion on which I spent about six hours.<br />
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And while I have not been at the easel or the drawing board I have been shooting arrows from my bow (also losing them!) and working my way through the huge amount of content on the <a href="http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/mission.php" target="_blank">Art Renewal Center website</a>. I'm enjoying learning a lot about Art History and discovering amazing artists I never knew existed before. The site has many high res images of some great paintings so it's a great place to view art if you are like me living in the uncivilized north of New Zealand. I dream of going to see the great master paintings in Europe and America. We do have some pretty good work here too, but I don't often have the opportunity to see it. Besides NZ is still mostly in the Dark Ages of Modern Art! <br />
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And to end with here is a drawing which I finished months ago but never photographed until today. I never see it but I think of Thoreau's Walden which I was listening to while I drew this.<br />
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Here is the video I made this week with the amazing footage my brother filmed with his drone. It was really fun making this, I hope you all enjoy it and let me know what you think!<br />
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I've been home a week now since the holidays with Caleb and this week I'm back to normal life and am planning my next hut painting.<br />
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The holidays were awesome, Caleb had three weeks off and he came up out of the cold South to see me. We spent a week at my home then went down to spend time with Caleb's family in Hawkes Bay. Of course the time flew and we had lots of wedding planning to do. We found our wedding venue. A forest of Totara trees on a friends family farm where I spent a bit of time growing up. It's just perfect and I'm so excited for our forest wedding!<br />
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We were planning to a bit of a hut trip in the holidays also, but I put my foot in it. I sprained my ankle and was a little bit disabled! But despite that I still managed to do lots of things outside and among others we shot pigeons, goats, and turkeys and had a mid winter Christmas feast.<br />
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I didn't do a stroke of drawing all holidays! Far too distracted! But I did do a quick painting. My brother, Erik Evans Photography, came up one weekend with his drone and wanted to film me painting down by the water. I didn't really feel like painting but I dragged out my plein air kit and we drove down the road. I decided quickly to paint one of the boats directly off shore with the rock, St Paul, behind. I wasn't feeling inspired at all but literally in five minutes after I had put the first stroke on the canvass I was in another world and everything else phased out.<br />
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For about an hour or so while I painted I was completely lost in my painting and didn't mind the drone buzzing above my head or my family looking on from behind and didn't notice the tide coming in. It was just a quick sketch, and I painted very fast, but I don't think it turned out too badly. I'll start making a video from the footage Erik has given me, so you can look forward to seeing that sometime soon.<br />
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My drawing 'Unheard' did not make into the short list for the Parkin Prize, but I have sold the drawing. It's amazing how things work out, with the money from this drawing of me in a wedding dress I will be able to buy my own wedding dress!</div>
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Entries close today for the <a href="http://parkinprize.org.nz/This+Art+Award?src=nav" target="_blank">Parkin Prize</a> which I entered only yesterday at the last minute. I wasn't sure if I would enter, but I thought I might as well so this week I drew something inspired by the romantics and the Pre-Raphaelites. </div>
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I wanted to not get too tight in this drawing, but leave a lot of expressive and simple lines in it to give it a sort of magical fairy-tale feel. It was quite hard to resist the temptation to go on rendering it, but I knew if I kept going I might have killed it. When I finished and framed it I didn't know what to think and hid it behind another drawing so I didn't have to look at it! I think I like it now, but somehow this feels daring for me because I have always striven for realism in my work and to be able to draw something like this truly I have to rethink how I value art. But that leads on to a very long discussion about what matters in art which I wont bore you with just now. Here is the drawing:</div>
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Which I have named, '<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unheard</span>'. </div>
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Here are the winning entries for the Parkin Prize since it began in 2013. So you can see that my work is very different. Well, we shall see what happens and I will let you know if mine is one of the 70 to 80 pieces that will be invited to the exhibition where the winners will be announced.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> I would like to enter the contest every year until I get into the exhibition at least. I entered in 2013 but did not get in with my big cat drawing. Fair enough, I liked it well enough but I never was inspired about it.</span></div>
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In the last two weeks of April I was away on another 'hut hop' drawing more huts for The Art of a Hut collection. This time the destination was the Orongorono Valley in the Rimutaka Range just east of Wellington. It was a very different trip compared to the usual weary tramps up and down steep and disappearing tracks in the highest ranges of the North Island. In this valley there are so many huts so close together that the longest I had to walk to a hut was two hours and we managed to stay in one hut for the whole 11 days we were there.</div>
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Here are the three of us, Guillaume, Me, and Jerualem. The same three from the </div>
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<a href="http://felicitydeverell.blogspot.co.nz/2014/09/the-art-of-hut-trip-four-whanganui.html" target="_blank">Whanganui Hut Hop</a>. We found a hut, Rata, which had a big shiny window so we took a selfie of ourselves, after many tries we managed to get this.</div>
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Before going down I had contacted the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/orongorongoclub/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Orongorongo Club</a> about a place to stay. They were very helpful and managed to find us a hut to stay in. In the whole valley there are about 60 private huts. They are very different to DOC huts, since they are all privately owned and as it is possible to drive a 4X4 up the valley on the riverbed a lot of these huts are very well set up. They are almost more like little batches than huts, but they all had simple beginnings. The hut we stayed at was one of the oldest in the valley. </div>
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Many beautiful places to look out from on some of the tracks that lead up to hidden huts. On the day we arrived the weather was perfect and the whole place looked like paradise.<br />
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Near Paua Hut we had some fun on the long swing from a high up branch. This stand of native beech trees was so beautiful and magical especially with the sun streaming and dappling through the branches.<br />
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This is Nikau Hut and the painting I did of it on the first day. There was one tree right in the way of my favorite view of it, so I simply didn't paint it in. It was quite amazing how a few hours into the painting I forgot all about that tree and simply didn't even see it any more. It reminded me about selective sight, how we only see what we are conscious of and how easily many things go overlooked though they are right in front of us. It is good to be aware of this as an artist for it makes me look at what I'm painting more intensely, and not get into the habit of painting what I think I see instead of properly looking and seeing how it truly is. In order to interpret shapes and edges into recognizable objects the brain edits stuff out and learns to jump to conclusions about things. As an artist I have to stop seeing a hut as a hut but as a collection of shapes and edges working together to form the image. In this way I can make in image of what is really there as opposed to what I think is there. Often two different things!<br />
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This hut had no dunny, but it had a toilet!! That was one of the best things about it, it had a flush toilet with an amazing view. Jerusalem was quite taken with it and spent a good deal of time sitting on it writing in his journal!<br />
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Guillaume enjoyed the unheard of contraption called a 'yellow wheelbarrow' and found it entertaining to fill it with wood and wheel it the short distance from woodshed to hut.<br />
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When we were shopping for food for the trip Jerusalem insisted that we wouldn't buy any meat as he would catch all the meat we needed. So we brought only two cans of tuna and yes he caught us meat. On the first night at the hut the boys caught an eel from the river and a couple of days after Jerusalem came back from hunting with a wild pig. It was a nice size and lasted us the whole time in there. </div>
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I spent every day searching for huts and drawing them. There were two days when it poured with rain but I managed to work inside and painted a small oil painting of the rifle and a couple of lanterns above the open fire.<br />
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It was a novel experience walking to all the huts and ticking them off on our map as we found them. Usually we walk five hours between huts, here we only had to walk five minutes in the bush until someone would sing out 'I've found another one here!' They were quite well hidden and we meet a number of people who come regularly to the valley and had no idea where all the huts were. Fortunately we had a map with all the huts marked on it which proved very helpful and by the end of the trip was in three pieces.<br />
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It was fun meeting people in some of the huts. During the week we saw no one but come the weekend there were people everywhere!<br />
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There were a few very cute and unique dunnys. And some very unusual huts:<br />
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Drawing Kiwi Hut<br />
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A couple of the huts had some sort of paintings on the walls, this one, Riverside Hut, had beautiful murals painted on the outside walls. It made something special and different out of an otherwise plain hut.<br />
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All the huts are locked of course except Bane Iti and Hebron. Hebron Hut we spent a long time looking for scrambling through ferns and supple jack until we finally found the remains of an A-frame hut slowly falling apart with age.<br />
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While I worked the guys drank tea...and slept... Well, not all of the time I guess. Guillaume did a lot of wood cutting climbed a mountain or two and did some school work he'd brought. Jerusalem went hunting all the time until he shot the pig, then he spent the last week cooking it.<br />
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This is the bridge at the beginning of the track out of the valley which is only a 1.5 hour walk.<br />
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I really enjoyed it and felt my first earthquake! I was sitting on a big log one morning in front of a hut painting when suddenly the whole thing began to wobble and shake. That evening I heard on the radio (yes we had a radio in our hut!!) that there had been an earthquake in the area. Overall it was a very relaxing trip.Or should have been. At first I felt like I had a lot of time to do all the drawing I wanted to get done but as the days passed I realized I could spend months painting in that valley and still have more I'd want to do. I wanted to do some landscapes as well as huts, but only had time for a small watercolour of the river.<br />
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But I still managed to get lots more drawing done than I usually would on a trip that long since there was less time walking and more for drawing. I have gathered enough material to do some nice larger paintings and a large drawing which I have already visualized in my head. In my next post I will share some of my paintings and sketches from the trip.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09236427388687907490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155395435204831863.post-91545129594319556422015-03-25T18:23:00.001+13:002015-03-25T18:23:19.292+13:00The Artist's News Here is my March Newsletter about what I've been up to and my latest work. I still don't have a good camera, saving for it though, so the photos arn't always the best. But the drawings I was able to scan.<br />
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Sometimes I get inspired from somewhere and suddenly try something different. This time it was pen and ink drawings copied from famous illustrations. I discovered the work of <a href="https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=howard+pyle&rlz=1C1AVSB_enNZ444NZ444&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=681&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ZhL5VO_EFoLQmwWTtoC4BA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ" target="_blank">Howard Pyle</a>, one of the best illustrators from the Golden Age of Illustration. </div>
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All of these where sketched with a brush pen. That is a paintbrush which has ink inside. I suddenly discovered how fun this pen is to use. I bought it a year ago online and when it came I used it to sketch a couple of times but they didn't turn out well so I put the pen aside and didn't keep experimenting with it, until now. </div>
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For the last three weeks I've been on a kind of holiday. Holiday from much painting and drawing anyway! I flew away to the South Island just because I thought I'd like to see a certain engineering student whose dear name begins with the letter C...<br />
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One week with friends we went hitch hiking around the three blue lakes near Mt. Cook. We slept under the stars every night and traveled on our feet or by the thumb and a smile. The landscapes all around were truly amazing. I found myself wishing for a little hippie van in which to travel around the country all on my lonesome...and to paint. I might just do that, as soon as I can... be a wandering artist, and really try to capture that beauty that surrounds one down there.<br />
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I very much like the South Island. Everything is so much grander and wilder and more open than in the North where I live. If you have seen the Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit you have only glimpsed the magic of New Zealand.<br />
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But most of the time away I spent in the city of Christchurch where Caleb is studying. I'm quite impressed at the amount of hours engineering students spend hard at it. It seems as if they have so much to learn that they could work 24/7 and still have lots more to do. I spent a week in the University library. Lived on the fourth floor where all the art and literature books were. I believe I could spend a lifetime in there. So many books that I've been wanting to read, and that I would never otherwise be able to see. I read and read, wrote down quotes and had a mind teaming with ideas and words by the end of it.<br />
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He was right, but those that came after him in the modern age, twisted the words to mean that 'all art could make all beautiful' and then 'art is beautiful because it is art', and eventually got rid of the idea of beauty altogether for even they could not see beauty in what they created. 'Art for Art's sake' became the motto. What happened to the amazing discoveries of the impressionists and other artists of that era that art was brought to such a low level so soon after?<br />
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Perhaps a better phrase would be 'Art for Life's sake' after all what is art without life, truth, or meaning? I think the mistake that artists make over and over again throughout all the art movements of history is to forget about what they paint and look at the paint itself. They forgot what they were trying to say because they found such a brilliant way of telling it, they saw it was brilliant and than all they could think of was the telling and forgot what they really wanted to say in the first place.<br />
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Many artists talk about wanting to share what they 'see' in their subject as their reason for painting. I never really understood what that meant until recently. An artist takes a delight in seeing what they call beauty. To him that is more than just liking it and not really knowing why it looks nice. An artist has to truely understand <i>what</i> makes something beautiful. What makes it beautiful <i>visually</i> because that is his language -- painting is purely a visual language. The painter sees colour, shapes, values, edges, composition, and the ways these elements come together and contrast to look pleasing to the eye, and to an an artist that is what is beautiful. And he wants to share those beautiful colours, shapes, and edges with others, they are often more beautiful and meaningful to the artist than the subject itself.</div>
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Anyone who looks at something and calls it beautiful dose so because what they are looking at has shape, colour, light, values, and edges, all combined in an aesthetically pleasing way. This is what an artist understands, or attempts to understand: How the eye sees, and what makes things pleasing to the eye. - Pleasing to the eye meaning the appreciation we feel when we see something beautiful, and which then can evoke feelings and thoughts which uplift and bring joy.</div>
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It is my greatest ambition to be able to really see things and understand how I see them, and to master a set of skills in order to interpret what I see in reality onto a two dimensional canvass. I do not wish to copy nature like a scanner, instead I want to <i>interpret</i> it. To find out what makes something look like it dose, to find out what drew me to paint that certain combination of shape, colour, values, and edges, and then to put it on canvass - to share at least a glimpse of what inspires me.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A dirty plate, a greasy cup,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The girls will have to smarten up, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Away, away with billy and pack,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A rollicking down the mountain track, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll all get lost and never come back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She sleeps all day and eats all night, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And if she could, she'd ride a bike,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Away, away with billy and pack,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A rollicking down the mountain track, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll all get lost and never come back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">The President is old and grey,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They say-he's ninety-nine today, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He's reached that age by staying away,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From the Tararua Ranges</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Away, away with billy and pack,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A rollicking down the mountain track, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll all get lost and never come back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Treasurer went on the bash,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And drank up all the available cash, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And now he's got big rocks to smash,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent;">Away, away with billy and pack,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A rollicking down the mountain track, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll all get lost and never come back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">The Chief Guide's getting old and grey. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He's lost the track three times today</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He'll never find it anyway.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent;">Away, away with billy and pack,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A rollicking down the mountain track, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll all get lost and never come back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">So if you're under ninety-three</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And find your life a misery,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You'd better come along with me, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Away, away with billy and pack,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A rollicking down the mountain track, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll all get lost and never come back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the Tararua Ranges.</span></div>
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One of my favorite huts from among those I drew in the Tararuas was Cone hut. Built in 1945-6, the hut replaced two huts nearby parts of which were used in the construction of Cone Hut. Piles and slabs were cut from surrounding trees and everything else was carried in including 1.5 tonnes of cement. Cone Hut is the only slab hut in the Tararuas that remains in such good condition. It has a lot of character and is in a beautiful little spot next to a river. Perfect location for a hot summer weekend.</div>
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This was the first hut of the second week. That morning we had walked out from Blue Range hut, said good bye to Luc (who hitched back up north), meet up with three more friends, and all tramping out to Cone Hut. We did the three hour walk in two and jumped into the river as soon as we got there. It was our first really nice day, we had sun and blue sky for a couple of days! The river was cold, but so nice to go for a swim and a proper wash!</div>
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I drew the hut that evening. It went well from the start and is one of my favorite drawings from the trip. I kept it simple, focusing on the hut and didn't add any background. I drew on brown paper with black and white charcoal. </div>
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I'm so blessed to have such good friends always eager to come on a 'hut hop' with me. They always remind me I should be out drawing and not enjoying the warm fire or the cold river too long! Thank you all!!</div>
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That night we shared the hut with two Norwegian hunters. There was not much space in the hut, especially in the sleeping area, but we all squeezed in. Everyone took it in good humour and one of the Norwegian fellow's deep loud laugh remained famous with us for the rest of the week. </div>
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We walked out back to the cars the next morning. At the end of the walk out was a long high swing bridge. They are always fun to cross. Most of us ran down to the river and jumped in after walking out from the hut. Afterwards we drove arround to our next car park and spent the rest of the week tramping a loop around Field, Kime, Mungahuka, and Penn Creek huts. </div>
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I took all my drawings into the copy shop to be scanned last week so I now have digital images of them all which is great. Below is a page from my dunny sketchbook. I've done a lot of little sketches of various dunnys at the huts. The Cone hut dunny had an entire wall made of punga logs, one of which was missing...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09236427388687907490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2155395435204831863.post-19553451971408865182015-01-14T16:59:00.000+13:002015-04-14T18:38:47.051+12:00Tararua Hut Hop, December 2014 It has been a month since the last hut hop which we did in the Tararua Ranges above Wellington. Since then the holidays over Christmas and New Year have been full of friends and family beaches and sailing. And now it's back to work for me. I've finally got the photos from the hut trip here are a few to give you an idea of what it was all like.<br />
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On the 6th of December we left Northland for two days traveling down the North Island to the Tararuas. There were five of us for the first week: Jojo, Pauline, (who came on the Kaweka trip) Guillaume, and Luc, (Pauline's brother and father). </div>
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The first hut was Blue Range Hut just out of Masterton it was the first in a loop which we walked in six days. It was two hour walk steeply up to the hut, the first hour was difficult but once I got my second wind I was fine, it is always a struggle on the first day of tramping after not climbing such big hills for awhile. Ten minutes before the hut near the junction Guillaume found a <a href="https://www.geocaching.com/play" target="_blank">geocache</a> in an old stump, there was not much inside just a painted stone and notepaper, no pencil. I added one of my business cards and we replaced it in the stump. </div>
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There's more to Blue Range Hut then first meets the eye. A sign greeted us on the door stating that this was an 'ANTENATAL CLINIC' and 'Do not enter while surgery is in progress' along with a bell and another notice saying 'If reception is unattended please press the bell'. All through the hut we found similar notices. The bunks we numbered and were declared to be for 'patients only', and The dunny was named the 'social worker's office'. Apparently a few nurses brought up the signs and decked the hut out in them. It definitely adds some character and interest. </div>
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The next morning I leaned against a tree and drew the hut from the back and more unphotographed side but which I found quite pretty. I drew in graphite and charcoal and tried something new by adding blue pastel on the hut. It worked well and the colour added interest while the picture clearly remained a drawing, as opposed to a painting.</div>
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There were three routes to Arete Forks, by the river, the tops, or a track along the mountain above the river. On the map this last route looked nice and easy, it wasn't so much so in reality. The track lead us steeply up for 200m and then along, but not flatly along. There were six creeks to cross on the way. At each one the track would go down steeply cross the creek and immediately go up again often so steep we had to use our hands as well and climbed. The track was run down, rough and fallen trees slowed us down a bit. We went on steadily and slowly up and down, around, over and under. </div>
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We got to Arete Forks just before dark six hours from Blue Range Hut. It was a good feeling to stop and and take of our heavy packs and suddenly feel light. We ate after a long wait for the stove to heat up, which we finally gave up on and used the gas we had packed out. Most of the huts we stayed at in the Tararuas either had a horrible stove to cook on or none. Blue Range hut has the best stove as far as I recall.</div>
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The next morning it was raining. The weather being what she is we had to change our plans for her. I waited half the day hoping for the rain to cease, and spent the time drawing. I drew Jojo, sketched the dunny from the doorway, and painted a watercolour of Guillaume's boot. I will add some images from my sketchbook in a new post once I have scanned them into the computer.</div>
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I used an orange/red pastel pencil to draw the hut which was another first for my hut drawings and I think it turned out to be quite effective. It was quite enjoyable out there with the world to myself. The constant roar of the creek behind me and the patter of raindrops above were good company. Apparently this hut is prone to flooding and the river did rise quite a bit while we were there, but, thankfully, had gone down again by the next morning when we came to cross it.</div>
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Jojo did a bit of hunting but it was too wet to be very successful. He shot nothing but a possum on the first week of the trip. Appart from reading the others spent the time I was busy drawing with cooking, gathering and splitting firewood, a few quick dips in the creek, and just having a relaxing time generally.</div>
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The next day, the 11th, we headed up to Tarn Ridge hut. It took us five hours of walking -- a little bit longer than it would have taken had we left out the little detour down a side ridge off the tops.<br />
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This was our first day up out of the bush and on the tops. Unfortunately there was no view, just cloud all around us and looked like it was there to stay.<br />
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A stop for chocolate after retracing our steps back to the main ridge. That little post behind Guillaume and a few other markers had mislead us. We realized it must have been a track, unmarked on our map, back to Arete Forks which we had followed down for a few hundred meters before realizing our mistake!</div>
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At last Tarn Ridge appeared through the mist..</div>
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Papa Luc, very happy to see the hut!</div>
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One disappointment awaited us, there was a stove, but no fuel. There was no wood anywhere near ,of course, being on the tops, and all the coal sacks were empty. We had originally planed to stay two nights at Tarn Ridge, but it was so cold and damp there that we all decided we wanted to get back down to the river and a hut with a fire. If we had had good weather it would have been such a different experience!</div>
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Our dinner before being cooked. We brought a bag of dried goats meat which a friend, Dominic, had shot and dried before we left. He later joined us for the second week, with others...</div>
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The world changed in a matter of minutes and suddenly made tramping on the tops seem like an idyllic experience, as opposed to an epic adventure. As we walked down we were accompanied by a rainbow.<br />
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...Only to be awoken at about six in the morning by the roar of a chopper. Two DOC workers were flown in to take part in a bird count which was carried out at the same time in several different locations in the Tararuas that day. They were staying only a couple of nights but brought enough supplies to last a week, the unreliable weather could easily prevent the chopper coming in to pick them up for several days. However the few days after that were fine so we can imagine they were picked up as scheduled.</div>
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I've never been in mountains as big as this before and it was an amazing experience. The artist side of me worked hard to figure out those mountains. I'd seen a lot of paintings of mountains and they seemed to me to to be not quite right, no artist seemed to be able to capture the huge solidness of them, and then I saw the mountains for myself and I was amazed at how like those paintings they looked! They seem so airy and full of colour, the shadows of clouds constantly moving over them reminded me of water reflections and when the clouds came down low they were lost in a soft fog. I should love to go down there one day and spent a while in the mountains trying to capture in paint that sense of solidness and hugeness as well as that airy elusiveness.<br />
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Dilon's Hut on the river flats which we enjoyed very much apart from the west coast sand flies. Caleb caught a nice big trout while the rest of us were still sleeping. Went for a walk up the river and had fun on the cable car.<br />
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The next day but one we were off again doing more exhausting stuff, this time mountain bike riding for two days with Caleb and Thomas. We rode from the Uni up and along the port hills and on to Banks Peninsula and Packhorse Hut.<br />
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In packhorse hut, a pretty stone hut, where we stayed the night, in the morning a whole lot of day trampers turned up so we cleared up and spent most of the day carrying out bikes up and around something like a mountain before finally being able to bike down the steep farm road and fields on the other side. That was exhilarating and terrifying! Only one accident when Caleb's chain broke and he went flying and landed with his bike on top of him.<br />
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Well, I've been home for three weeks now and have been getting ready for another hut drawing trip for <a href="http://felicitydeverell.blogspot.co.nz/p/the-art-of-hut.html" target="_blank">The Art of a Hut</a> project, and have been doing a bit of painting and drawing for myself.</div>
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I drove out to Tarara one day last week to do some paintings of the huge boulders strewn around the foot of that big rock. But somehow I forgot my paintbrushes! I considered finger painting, but ended up just doing a watercolour sketch and hunting around for interesting compositions to paint another time.</div>
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This is what has been going on in my studio this week. The violin is a ticklish thing to draw, get one line or curve wrong and it looks all off.</div>
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I ordered a whole lot of new business cards and they arrived in the mail the other day. They are nice and shiny and stiff, sorry about my blurry phone photo.<br />
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This weekend I'm leaving on another hut hop. This time in the <a href="http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/tararuas,tramping/Interesting" target="_blank">Tararuas</a> near Wellington. We will be spending two weeks in there, tramping two loops of seven nights each. I'm hoping to get some good drawings done I'm getting excited now and looking forwards to it. !!!!</div>
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