I seem to be loading up a different fountain pen with a new colour of the De Atramentis Document Ink every day … yesterday it was a mixed light green (I wanted it to be lighter) and a mixed magenta and grey (I wanted an Australian maroon but simply put some magenta into a pen...
CONTINUE READINGAnother teacup sketch late last night and once again playing with different coloured inks (among other things). It is strange how I sometimes feel guilty drawing teacups over and over again but often I just don’t have much time or brain space for something else. And the act of sketching my cuppa is a good...
CONTINUE READINGNormally by day 3 of a new year I have done many pages but this year I have had a few great productive days working instead. This is my gold cup that I haven’t sketched for years because it went missing. I was using 4 colours of De Atramentis ink. mixed Raw Sienna, Magenta, mixed...
CONTINUE READINGAs promised here are the details of the sketchbooks I used in 2014. It was a year of change for me in that: 1. I moved from an A5 portrait format sketchbook to a landscape version which was larger and providing me with more options. 2. I started using a second sketchbook for my...
CONTINUE READINGIt has been lovely to have a few visiting USKers in Sydney lately and to have a few ‘adhoc’ casual meetings. Giving people only 1 day’s notice at this time of year is a little outrageous so it was great to have a group of 15 turn up on Cockatoo Island on Tuesday – with...
CONTINUE READINGIt is 10.30pm NYE here in Sydney. I am just about to make a late cuppa and sit down and flick through these books…. my collection of 2014 sketchbooks. 19 completed – 6 still in use. This was a really hard sketch to do – getting so confused with all those A4 folio moleskine...
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