As December rapidly comes to an end, one of my favourite rituals is revisiting all my sketchbooks from the past year… 2025 was a good year for me – I filled 20 sketchbooks! This represents significantly more sketching than the last few years thanks to my 9-week European trip which accounts for 9 of the...
CONTINUE READINGIf you haven’t already heard, I’m hosting a Live Version of my popular Watercolour course in the new year – starting on Wednesday 7 January. This will be a chance to work through the video lessons over 7 weeks with an inspiring cohort from around the world and participant in 7 weekly livestreams. I’m super...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I was an a mission to sketch a few red Xmas trees. This is because ‘red’ is our monthly theme for December inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon. I’ve sketched the Martin Place tree many times (including a few demos inside my Foundations course!) but the other trees were new for me. ...
CONTINUE READINGI’m excited to announce that I’m offering another workshop on Cockatoo Island in February next year. This time I’m expanding it to 2 days so that we can include sketching with edges as well as shapes. It will also give us more time to learn how to create lively watercolour washes and combine edges with...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I taught a fun 2.5 hour workshop, sketching on the streets of Parramatta with the wonderful team from Campbell Architecture. I taught this gang last year on Cockatoo Island (see here) sketching with edges, shapes and volumes. This time we were focusing on quick sketches of the varied architecture of Parramatta. We did...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s time to (finally) finish this mega series of articles from my big trip to Europe in July-Sept 2025. It has taken me months to put these articles together – a true labour of love – but I’m so happy to have done it. Yay! Sharing highlights from my sketchbooks alongside photos of people and...
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