I 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...
CONTINUE READINGSome of my long-term readers will know about my old habit of Friday Night Baroque where I used to find sketching a complex Baroque building (from a photo) was the perfect way for me to wind down and relax after a busy week at the (architects) office. That habit has fallen by the wayside a...
CONTINUE READINGAfter my commitments for the Watercolour Society of Victoria (see here for details) I had two days to prepare for my 2 day Sketching Architecture workshop in North Melbourne (see here for the report). As I mentioned in yesterday’s post I had a lot of stuff that I should be working on so I didn’t...
CONTINUE READINGTravelling as part of your work always sounds so exciting, but for most people who do it regularly it can be a very tiring experience. I used to travel to Melbourne for work a lot as an architect. Between 2000-2002 it was once a week – 6am flight down, straight to a site...
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