Yes, my week teaching in Sketchbook Skool Seeing is on again. So that means there will be lots of people sketching teacups (and other patterned objects of significance) over the coming week. I might have to join in a few times! So today, as I wasn’t able to make it up to my local cafe...
CONTINUE READINGAs a lot of you know, I have this weird habit of reading serious architectural history and theory books for relaxation, and last Saturday evening was one such occasion. I was reading about Palladio again and as is often the case when I study him, was almost moved to tears by the sublime beauty of...
CONTINUE READINGWith the combination of teaching perspective twice in the last month and re-visiting all the content for my Edges course (getting ready for relaunch next week!) I am becoming more and more convinced that perspective isn’t the biggest issue when it comes to sketching buildings and street scenes. Don’t get me wrong, perspective is...
CONTINUE READINGI am finally getting a chance to finish off my summaries of my recent trip to Melbourne. So here are the sketches which I did on my last day when I had a lovely relaxing sketching day out with my two great friends Alissa Duke and Angela Williams. I hope that I never take for...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I was thinking about the differences between creating art and recording life. They are not opposing ideas and there are overlaps, but there is a difference in the intention. Here are a few thoughts I had: If your goal is to create art you will be looking for an occasion to ‘do a...
CONTINUE READINGThis sketch of a hot cross bun is one of the quickest sketches I have done lately (under 3 minutes) but when it came to write a few words about it, I realised that there were lots of thoughts going on in my head at the time. And I can’t help thinking (once again) of...
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