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How To Draw Anything

By Mark Linley

If you can write your name, you have enough touch to learn to draw. Let Mark Linley inspire you to pick up your pencil and create a magical masterpiece. His positive approach secures quick, accurate results and ever-growing confidence. Learn to look properly and get the basic outlines correct; include the key features but simplify what you see; understand how shading (such as dot stipple or cross-hatching) can transform a sketch; get the eye level right and see how a grid helps with the composition. Whatever you want to draw - a beautiful holiday scene, a lifelike portrait of your family or favorite pet, or even a funny cartoon to illustrate a birthday card - Mark Linley shows, in this new edition of his bestselling book, everything you need to succeed.

About the Author

Mark Linley has been an art teacher for many years, running several very popular evening and holiday courses. As a health education graphic artist in Birmingham schools, he added a new dimension to the teaching of health education by encouraging children to learn while they draw.

Our car is very well packed with art and craft to be exhibited at  the Dubbo Craft Alive.  The painting of the rose above was painted with watercolour pencils.
I look forward to being at site 22 with writing and art reference books and scrap-booking paper bargains.
 I have 12 only copies of my Novella, 'Set Free' a lovely and funny at times seniors romance story. Happy to sign the copies and to meet you.

I have bookings already to teach writing and painting at Kurrimine Beach Holiday Park. Reg will be so happy fishing there and I plan to write another novel.
Loving these plans.

The Daly Waters Pub painted in flow formula acrylic by myself, artist, Kathy Shell.
This pup is situated just off the main highway and is an must visit for a barra and beef dinner and entertainment and cheap overnight camp with clean showers if you are happy to share with the cute frogs peeking out from behind the cistern to watch you. 

The entertainment is fantastic. They had a comedienne  with his performing chickens last time we were there. The humour is topical, about the location how if you stay more than one night they make you the town mayor as the towns longest staying citizen and how  and us gray gypsy travellers leave the suburbs for the peace of the bush then wake everyone up before dawn with the screech or eek eek eek as we wind up the stabilizing feet on the caravan to be ready to roll out after breakfast to rush to the next overnight camp site before dusk. 

 Reg and I have applied for art related management and art technician and art mentor style work within an Australian Indigenous community and we are hoping to be accepted to work for and with the community.  In the meanwhile we are both reading all we can about the location and the art of the se artists.  Here is one of the books I am looking at.  Even Reg is interested and taking a good look at what we can learn in advance.

Books » History » General
Australian Aboriginal Art, Including Albert Namatjira, Queenie McKenzie, Sally Morgan (Artist), William Barak, Wenten Rubuntja, Fiona Foley, Lin Onus

By Hephaestus Books

To learn more or order click on link below.

I had the pleasure of spending time with the artists in this community, with Reg, a couple of years back. We created art together and they taught me how to make paint brushes from reeds.

I have always loved our remote area travel, the people and the art and I have been non stop researching the four job positions I have a chance to apply for as aboriginal art community manager. I love learning more about Australia and the people and culture of our Aboriginals and I am impressed with the high standard of a lot of the artwork performed by those with respect for tradition.

Let me just say i am thrilled and feel honoured to think I have a chance of working with the local art communities and striving to advance the wider recognition for their art. It will be fun putting my website and promotion skills to work for them as well as use my gallery management and art craft teaching skills again.

Kathy Shell


Oenpelli is an Aboriginal community on the eastern border of World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park at the base of the Arnhem Land escarpment. Being part of Arnhem Land, travellers wanting to visit Oenpelli require a permit before visiting. Permits can be obtained from the Injalak Art and Craft Centre. Oenpelli Community

A special buy at only $135. a complete kit and easelbox for the artist. Actually for 4 artists. I can never repeat this below cost offer again. it is just my insane downsizing mode allowing me to sell these NEW items at this low price.  Cheaper than wholesale and then i have thrown in FREE pack and post to anywhere in Australia as a part of the deal.  Satisfaction Guarantee! 

Contact me if you would like one of these - whole stock lasts.
NEW Classico Oil Kit Wooden Table Easel Box $265. Value. FREE Australia POST! in Crafts , Art Supplies , Other Art Supplies |eBay

Clydesdales and dray, Pastel pencil original art work, outer frame size 475 mm x 410mm art work on A4 size acid free pastel paper framed in double mount acid free mat board.

I have this one pastel pencil A4 size impressionist art work framed under glass in an acid free double mount.
I am still waiting on Pack and Send to quote me the delivery costs, - I would never trust Australia Post with glass, would you?  I could quote now to send unframed however you would possibly have to pay more than my asking price to frame it as nicely. The frame is not new. This work is 'ex gallery' and has been in storage. In fact I will need to clean the glass up before I send it, although the buyer will need to do that too as the glass is taped during transport to protect it from breaking. 

As soon as I have the cost to me I'll mark this original art work as low in cost as I can. :-). Feel welcome to ask questions, my Art Sale will run all though Feb and I hope - into March. I begin my new novel - I wrote it in my head last night instead of sleeping so it is eager o get out, lol. from April so no art selling from then on, planned, hence my doing a SALE now., outer frame size 475 mm x 410mm art work on A4 size acid free pastel paper framed in double mount acid free mat board.
Acclaimed Australian artist, Kathy Shell

Satisfaction Guarantee! 
Contact me if you would like to purchase.

_Have you been to any Seminars?
You can apply all this information for writers to Painters and Sculptors, we all have the same time restraint issues of a labour intensive job and the need to allocate time for public relations work as well.

While I still have not put pen to paper and created any more cartoons since I went to the Cartoon Writing Seminar last Wednesday I have applied all the business skills for Authors training I received in the latter part of the Seminar and 'that's OK,' because I already could do cartoon sketches it was best to focus on those areas I could improve on first.

The move I have made towards doing the actual cartooning is to allocate 4 hours a day by 5 days a week to my blogging, short story, essay length, cartooning and author promotion skills. Or 20 hours per week.  I will be focusing on the A priorities fist, and that is those skills I need to improve and the most urgent ones.

So I have allocated the time to do the cartooning, as it moves up the priority ladder it will be done, within that 4 hours, Monday to Friday.  I am allocating  2 x 4 hour work sessions from 8 until 12  at each end of the day.

One will be treasured and maintained 7 days a week or 28 hours a week just for my novel writing with a bonus additional 2 x 4 hours cribbed off the days I take a break from the small writing work.  That equals 36 hours Novel writing time per week and I'm sure I will crib a little extra time and make that a 40 hour week as I am serious about my novel writing. If I was painting this would be time allocated to my major work of art.  I set this full time working week for it as non negotiable.

I need to work on this further to allocate enough exercise time and have a balanced lifestyle. Yes, good time management is a valid seminar topic for writers and i have attended and even given a few of those throughout my creative career. Get the time management right and you can create well and stay reasonably healthy.

Summery:
* I work a part time 20 hour week at smaller PR size and income generating creative work.
* I work a full time 40 hour week at my major creative work this is currently my novel.
* I allocate 10 hours minimum to the study and improvement of my creative work. For a writer this is reading a novel for at least one hour a day and brushing up on grammar,
* Fitness activity, healthy meals planning and sleep. - Yes this is why I need to plan or something gets left out. All my social activity needs to be fitted in around training =, fitness or meals. I do turn the TV off unless it is educational and facebook for me is an educational and promotional medium it is not for wasting time playing games, when I play games it is with real life to my face friends and family members.

Set your goals, plan the actions to achieve them then plan your time so you can achieve what you want to do,



My next Seminar is Feb 11 on submitting my novel to an agent or publisher.

Why Writer's Conferences are Important.

Setting things up in my studio to combine writing and art skill and do more cartoons for my blogs!

I am loving the idea of cartoon writing to combine my artist and writer's skill. I attended a great seminar in Melbourne on Wednesday this week. It was about Cartoon writing and I have been busy...Read more at
Painting and Writing Combined in Cartoons www.kathyshell.com

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