Category Archives: thoughts

Ah, hindsight

By elise | Published: February 22, 2010

Well you learn something new every day… 1. I do like hard work and, not being a morning person, I actually like working late at night.* 2. Working on a nice hot lightbox is best reserved for winter, if possible.** 3. Bugs are attracted to lightboxes on hot summer nights. 4. Flywire is recommended for [...]

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The drawing two-step…

By elise | Published: February 11, 2010

I was talking to someone outside the gym the other day and she said it must be hard to work from home. Not really, I said. True and not true. Today I find myself working but succumbing to my usual problem. No matter what I am working on I always seem to want to work [...]

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I'll just do a little more…

By elise | Published: February 10, 2010

On that last Mondoodle. Which leads me to a question. When is a picture finished? How do you know when to stop? Sometimes I know I go on too far with a picture – there are often lots of points when you think – that’s pretty good now, I should stop… I’ll just do a [...]

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Let there be Guppies

By elise | Published: January 22, 2010

I have just discovered guppies. How did that take so long? It’s funny how many things I’ve been completely disinterested in until I drew one and suddenly shazaam. Instant obsession! It happened for a while with ships when I went down to the docks one day with my mum to paint the old tugboats at [...]

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Anatomy of a Drawing 1

By elise | Published: January 21, 2010

I thought it would be interesting to dissect a drawing, so to speak. This is one from my Moleskines collection, book two. It began with a what should I draw? kind of question, and a suggestion from Peter of a walrus. No more of an idea than that. I pulled up photos from the computer [...]

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Mondoodle 28-12-09

By elise | Published: December 28, 2009

In this twilight moment of 2009 I wish you happiness and great beginnings. I hope you all get a brief respite from work – I’m having one and it is much needed. Next year is going to be exciting and challenging and I’m looking forward to it. But I’ll think about that soon. For now, [...]

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Galleries

By elise | Published: November 2, 2009

I went in to the city on Friday to check out a show. Now, some of you will think that this would be a regular thing for an artist to do. Like film students go to cinemas and writers read books. Unfortunately not. I’m basically a tethered hermit-artist (more crab than monk – I’ll take [...]

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On the run and fashion

By elise | Published: October 15, 2009

There’s a little bit of panic that sets in at times each year. It’s when I’m falling behind a little bit with new things looming and I start having unsettling dreams about being chased all the time. No difficulty in interpreting those particular bludgeons of the subconscious. At the moment I’m finishing designs for a [...]

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Memories

By elise | Published: September 29, 2009

I really envy people their good memories. I don’t have one. I have a terrible one really. And I think I’ve lost so much of my childhood which, being a children’s writer, it would be really good to access! We were talking about memories on the weekend during the session on Grand Final day. One [...]

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Jumbled

By elise | Published: September 25, 2009

Three things: 1. Just had a great meeting with Allen & Unwin to talk about a new project. It’s been a long time in the wings and is finally getting ready to start (after the epic is finished). A little archaeology, a little mayhem and a lot of film noir! 2. I’m off to Traralgon [...]

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