Pasadena Mansions

Pasadena Mansions has moved

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Gracia has built me a new blog site and I can now be found over here. Please come along and visit me in my new home.

Drawing

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Looking back at my drawings from years ago and thinking it's time I overhauled Pasadena Mansions.

Au Chat Noir

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Who could resist eating at the Au Chat Noir?

Anonymous Works

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Anonymous Works finds and posts beautiful imagery. See for yourself.

Handsome pair

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Hand-modelled clay animals from Ocotlan, Oaxaca.

There's Olive!

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Olive wondering what we know not what.

Mexican inspiration

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Huichol man's shoulder bag from Jalisco, double-woven on a backstrap loom from re-spun acrylic yarns.

Arts & Crafts of Mexico

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The wonderful work of Jillian Tamaki for Penguin Threads Deluxe Classics

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(Images from Jillian Tamaki's Sketchblog.)

Jillian Tamaki

Turn the pages

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Over My Shoulder (V) from gracia & louise on Vimeo.

(This collaborative artists' book by Gracia and Louise takes you to Padova, Northern Italy. It was made especially for Milly Sleeping's Loved & Lost project.)

Bears and birds

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An aurora of polar bears I have dreamt of
Five proud birds
Birds that have caught my eye in print, but I've never been lucky enough to see in reality

By Louise Jennison
Edition of 100

Available here.

But I just got here a minute ago

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But I just got here a minute ago.
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III

By Gracia Haby
Edition of 100

Available here.

Summertime scenes

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Blue

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Little green bird

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A new bird for a New Year.

There are my feet!

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Stella and summer days

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Sketchbook bird

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My feet!

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From my Moleskine

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Me and my shadow

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Happy New Year to all!

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Agatha & Claude

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Agatha and Claude are real birds.

Merry Christmas!

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Rainbow wings

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Now who's the prettiest parrot of us all?

Drawn 03|10|10

Strange little long necked parrot

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More of Gracia's bird collection.

Drawn 01|10|10

China birds sometimes have strange impressions of the outside world

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Omar sleeps

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Omar hard at work. He is dreaming of tinned turkey and fresh chicken rissoles.

Drawn 28|09|10

X2

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Drawn 28|09|10

Waiting for Olive

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Where is Louise's invisible cat?

Sketchbook birds

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Drawn on Grand Final Day.

It was a draw.

25|09|10

Little Cross Blue Caps

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Drawn 23|09|10

Turn the other cheek

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The Portuguese parrot

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From my sketchbook.

Yoga classes for 2011

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(Click to enlarge.)

Dear Festive Stretchy Ones,

Well another yoga year has come and gone.... But here's a bit of excitement for you to print and pop on the fridge door in readiness for 2011..... It all begins again on Saturday January 15th..... so if you are away lolling on some distant beach or mountain top, I'll look forward to seeing you whenever you are back....

Hastings!

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The little head turner

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Drawn 22|09|10

One more time

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...but facing the other way.

Drawn 21|09|2010

In my sketchbook: The Red Cardinal

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The first of the flock, drawn from Gracia's collection of birds.

Softies in the window

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Masked Clement and Little Lady Clara are in the window as part of Meet Me At Mikes as part of the fourth annual Softies for Mirabel handmade toys. Can you spot them?

See more here.

Meet Augusta, Delphine and Benita

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My Thelma's Little Ladies can be purchased here.

Thelma's Little Ladies

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Thelma's Little Ladies, Audrey, Ina, Mae and Petunia, can be found online here.

Calling all little wolves

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New works on paper by Gracia & Louise available here.

"For the next handful of weeks, Louise and I are offering you—blue-ribbon blog readers, dazzlingly-nice newsletter subscribers, terrifically first-class twitter followers et al.—twenty percent off everything listed in our online store. Simply type in LITTLEWOLF upon checkout in order to do so.

We are offering 20% off all things listed, from artwork to zines, until Christmas eve 2010. Enjoy, friends one and all, enjoy."

'There, a moment' held by Gracia

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originally uploaded by gracia+louise.

THERE, A MOMENT HELD.
Gracia Haby
Edition of 60

"This zine features twelve new postcard collages with random ephemera pages dispersed throughout. With a yellow cover and yellow card spine, it features the collage 'Still without a clue'."

Discover more,
Coloured like ripe lemons or egg yolks.
In two shakes (of a lamb's tail).

Newsletter 19

Quadrupeds drawn from London's Natural History Museum collection by Louise

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originally uploaded by gracia+louise.

QUADRUPEDS DRAWN FROM LONDON'S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM COLLECTION
Louise Jennison
Edition of 100

"This zine features the African elephant named George who resided in the main hall of the Natural History Museum in the years prior to the Diplodocus; Johnston's okapi on display in 1901; a tiger from the Game Animals of the Empire exhibition of 1932; a lion in a damaged cabinet after the 1944 bombings; a rabbit frequently sketched by schoolchildren in the Children's Centre, 1949."

Discover more,
Coloured like ripe lemons or egg yolks.
In two shakes (of a lamb's tail).

Newsletter 19

Colonnata

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In the Apuan mountains, one of the Tuscan marble capitals.

Garafagnana

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A corner of Garafagnana, one of the greenest and most densely forested areas of Tuscany, Its isolation was in the past the source of widespread legends.

Haunted Tower House

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The Haunted Tower House.
The Grey Lady
Fiumalbo

Fiumalbo

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Wall by river at Fiumalbo

Tuesday 25th May

Riolunto

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Tuesday 25th May

A new face to meet

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Boccassuolo

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Boccassuolo old church

Built in 1907

Tower

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A favourite spot.

Friday 21st May

Boccassuolo

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Friday 21st May

The old city

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Inside the gates of the old city

Castellerano

The gardens of the Castle House

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Castellerano

Sighted inside a church in Rubbiano

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A church in Rubbiano
1000 AD

Wednesday the 19th May

(It all began months ago now.)

Trattoria

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The lunch table.
Up in the clouds in Montefiorino on a cold, wet, cloud heavy.

Wednesday 19th May

Rubbiano

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Wednesday 19th May

Doorways, continued

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Church door, 600-700 AD

Palagano
Monday 17th May

(Doorways and windows I passed by.)

Indoors

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Inside the Priests house.

Palagano
Monday 17th of May

The singing of birds

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The singing of birds.
The pealing of bells.
The barking of dogs.

Palagano old church grounds
Monday 17th of May

In the window

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A window in Fiumalbo, drawn Wednesday 25th of May

Another from the moleskine

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Drawn Wednesday 25th of May

Home

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, originally uploaded by gracia+louise.

Fiumalbo

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Drawn Wednesday 25th of May

Windows and doors in Riolunato

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Drawn Tuesday 25th of May, so long ago now.

In the back garden

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Over My Shoulder (IV) from gracia & louise on Vimeo.

"Before this collaged artists' book of mine, 'I chanced upon the unexpected and found I liked it', makes its way to the State Library of New South Wales, I sat outside and turned its pages.

I am in my parents back garden, the season is spring five days in, and the clock chimes in the background.

We are in Worcester. Or are we?

G"

Riolunto on a Tuesday

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Drawn Tuesday 25th of May

Seated in an old square in Modena

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Surrounded by the constant hum of voices.

Modena

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Drawn Monday 24th of May

Further views of Palagano

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Drawn Sunday 23rd of May

Dear Dad

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Dear Dad is launched today at the Wheeler Centre (176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne) at 11am. Pop along.

Find out more here and here.

Simon's Cat in 'The Box'

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Buona sera!

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More watercolours from my sketchbook. Once more, from Palagano, Italy. Also drawn Saturday 22nd of May.

Drawing in Palagano

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Drawn Saturday 22nd of May

Palagano

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Drawn Saturday 22nd of May

Sasso Rosso

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Drawn Tuesday 18th of May

Piazza Umberto, Garfagnana

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Drawn Tuesday 18th of May

From one of my Italian sketchbooks

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Drawn Sunday 16th of May

Someone new to meet

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Not my view today

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Italian gardens in the springtime

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Remembering that blue sky

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You're invited...

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, originally uploaded by gracia+louise.

Anonymous Works: 1920's Folk Art Carved Swagger Stick with Golden D...

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Anonymous Works: 1920's Folk Art Carved Swagger Stick with Golden D...

Let me take you in my pocket to Venezia

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Happy Birthday Peter!

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, originally uploaded by gracia+louise.

Going for a song

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Two Thelma's stuffies of mine are listed on Craft Victoria's online store.

It feels so long ago now

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Not all green but brownish-orange

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Doorways and windows I passed by

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I meet many Italian animals

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A suite of prints available

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The passage home was long.

A possible shortcut is considered.

A moment to hold close to the chest.

Looking for a way in.

A chance sighting.

One moonlit night with little to no prospect of success.

They had returned.

It was worth it if only to see the stars scuttle across the shore.

Eight new prints now available through Gracia & Louise's online store. Go and see.

Cheese for Louise

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Parmesan cheese especially for Louise.

It's all in the details

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Things to redraw and possibly paint.

Dear Gracia

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To feature one day soon in a future collage of yours.

Windows and doors

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Going through all my photos (a little over 800) from my recent weeks in the North of Italy. Further details and a look in my sketchbooks as soon as my feet touch the ground.

Walking and drawing in Italy

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Poppies for Peter

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