I am loving my morning routine! I walk to a local cafe, order a coffee, plan my day with my Get To Work Book and then map out details of my latest project. Once my watercolour is dry, I walk home and get stuck into work. (BTW I normally tick off the completed tasks –...
CONTINUE READINGI’m having a very busy week working on a huge blogging project that is taking a lot of my time and creative energy. It is mainly writing and photography at the moment and despite the fact that I did some watercolour testing yesterday, I don’t really feel in the mood for doing my own...
CONTINUE READINGAfter yesterday’s initial colour chart and exploration I decided it was time to go for it and do two sketches with the White Nights paints. The way that I work is a bit crazy – I am working spontaneously (unplanned) and wet in wet a lot – this is highly risky business in...
CONTINUE READINGWhen in Singapore for the Urban Sketchers Symposium in July this year, I was given a 24 full pan set of White Nights watercolours to test. I have heard a lot about these paints so was keen to get a set to test. In essence these paints have a reputation for being highly pigmented very...
CONTINUE READINGJust a short blog post today to remind everyone that I publish a newsletter each month (on the first Tuesday). It is a summary of what I have done in the past month (I know that it is hard to keep up with all the daily posts!) and also the latest news about my SketchingNow...
CONTINUE READINGI have decided to start a new regular feature on my blog – sharing my week’s worth of everyday pages in their entirety with a few comments on weekly themes that I see emerging. I’m a great believer in the benefits of recording your life by sketches and notes in a book – not...
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