I don’t really have a never-ending collection, but it feels like it, because every time I sketch a fancy cup it comes out differently. So here is last week’s version of my Royal Albert 100 years: 1910s Duchess cup… …and here are four previous versions over the years. This variety is a good reason why...
CONTINUE READINGJust a quick post to give you the heads up that I am writing a book! yay! Some of you might have been wondering why I haven’t already written a book… well, I have been in touch with publishers about a few projects over the last two years, but for various reasons the timing or...
CONTINUE READINGWell first off, a huge thankyou to everyone that left a suggestion last week. I have a long list of things to fall back on now. Interestingly enough a lot of you suggested things that I have been thinking I ‘should’ sketch – great minds think alike! This week I made more of an effort...
CONTINUE READINGI have been starting to implement the Getting Things Done approach for the last few months and it has been great. I decided today that a Saturday morning cafe visit is the perfect time for me to do my weekly review – today it was a monthly review as well. I have so many projects...
CONTINUE READINGThis week for Foundations Friday I will be looking at the third way of seeing (visual thinking) : constructing volumes. Most artists focus on the first two ways of seeing, drawing with lines or painting with shapes. However as an architect, my brain is wired to think in terms of volumes – I have...
CONTINUE READINGI love starting my sketches with a watercolour wash rather than ink lines. I find that when it is just me and the pigment floating on the paper, I capture the light better and get more interesting coloured washes. I think this is because I am purely focusing on the coloured shapes and therefore see...
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