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    Man of Many Mediums

    Oct 25, 2019 4 minutes
    Edited by Trevor Lang

    Canberra born Graham W. Smith (now of Wynnum in Brisbane) commenced his artistic life with a pencil drawing of a racing car (at under five years of age). The artist still has it in his possession today. At the age of 14 he was doing perspective drawings of his family home in Sydney, as well as watercolours of the launching of Sputnik and sunset scenes.

    Having a grandfather who painted in oils and watercolours in the Sydney Rocks area in 1905, and a father who was a cartoonist, helped fuel young Graham’s desire to have fun illustrating English castles and battle scenes for his history lessons.

    Graham did his first large watercolour in 1967 and shortly

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