16 October 2025
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I was looking back on my blog to remind myself how I did score scanning last year (when I took on the Christmas music library for the training band). It looks like the point I reached was to fire up … Continue reading
2 May 2025
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Above is the other sketch I did while sitting on the shoreline of the Jurassic Coast. It was done with water soluble graphite and drawing pencils in red and ochre. It reminds me of some oriental pieces I have seen … Continue reading
24 October 2024
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Jane and I have recently taken on custodianship of the training band’s Christmas library. We’ve been given a box of paper copies and a collection of files containing scanned images but the two don’t entirely match up. I’ve been working … Continue reading
26 June 2022
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For my recent gigs with CSWO, I’ve been using the forScore app on my iPad. It is essentially a PDF viewer but with lots of tweaks that make it work particularly well for music. For example, you can book mark … Continue reading
11 January 2019
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Having read Magnus’s recent post on life drawing and emailed him a couple of links to useful YouTube resources, I thought I’d do some practise myself. This year, I am doing a summer course on anatomy for artists so it … Continue reading
18 March 2018
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I have now uploaded the watercolours from Friday’s Observation to Abstraction art class to my Flickr site: expect a series of pictures over the next few days. The particular challenge for this set was that all the images were quite … Continue reading
10 November 2017
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Violas, which includes the flowers given the common name ‘pansies’, are a large family of hardy flowers that often feature in late and early bedding schemes. They come in an abundance of colours but the classic combination, to my eyes, … Continue reading