Category Archives: vidoes

Making sweet music with the Night Garden

By elise | Published: July 28, 2011

Here’s something very exciting coming up! I have been working with the talented people at the Melbourne Recital Centre who are putting together a beautiful program for the next school holidays. They are putting two picture books to music – my book “The Night Garden” and “The Rainbirds” by David Metzenthen and illustrated by Sally [...]

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Mondoodle 13-12-2010

By elise | Published: December 13, 2010

Today’s offering is a little different… as you know I am on a little forced break from drawing (not by choice!) so Mondays is surprise day until the twins arrive Today we have a snippet from my show at No Vacancy. Ahhhh takes me back, it does. The wrists need to get better soon. I [...]

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Mondoodle 22-02-2010

By elise | Published: February 22, 2010

Hello again. The lightbox and I have had words. Yep, I’m going to suck it up and stop complaining. And try to finish my work before sun-down… Here’s the Mondoodle. It’s a bit of a case of… here’s one I prepared earlier. Because Of COURSE I wouldn’t get distracted during a tough deadline! That’s just [...]

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Quick-draw Rabbit plus one

By elise | Published: December 13, 2009

I’m thinking that with these videos, while you watch the sequence of strokes, you might also watch a story unfold if I sketch it in the right order. That’s tricky for me as it requires a certain amount of planning, and I have been enjoying letting the drawing do its own thing to an extent. [...]

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Mondoodle 16-11-09

By elise | Published: November 16, 2009

Does it count if you can see the drawing completed in under the ten minutes? Possibly. I felt like doing something quite different today. My first jobs in illustration were doing fantasy work for some role-playing manuals. I did a lot of dragons and creatures back then, for fun as well as for work. And [...]

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Quick-draw – crusty pirate

By elise | Published: November 9, 2009

Here’s another Quick-draw. Oh I do enjoy these and I’m starting to get used to drawing without watching the page. I’ll upgrade it to HD when I work out how – the option didn’t seem to present itself this time. Do click the HQ button though for a better view. And you can turn off [...]