Being your own boss is tough… I don’t know when I last worked till 23rd Dec (in the days of an office job we always knocked off on the Friday before Xmas). Not doing anything special this year except for time with family and friends and some rest – but hey, that is as special...
CONTINUE READINGI am having so much fun with the new De Atramentis Document inks. Not only mixing colours that suit me but also finding pens to put these colours in. I have a crazy collection of fountain pens some of which I have never used much …for various reasons but often it was because they did...
CONTINUE READINGI just haven’t had the time to keep my blog up to date lately and feel like I haven’t been doing much daily sketching lately… but putting this blog post together has proved that even when I am ‘not seriously sketching’ I am still sketching. (sketching at Collaroy Beach) These pages represent a...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the great things about the Urban Sketchers community is that when you travel you can meet up with local sketchers. We don’t get that many international visitors here in Sydney but this week we had two. Patrick from Singapore (who I have met before in Singapore) and Will from Manchester. We were able...
CONTINUE READINGI visited Martin Place today to sketch the huge field of flowers that has sprung up in response to this week’s tragic events in Sydney – at the Lindt Cafe in the very heart of the city. It was an overwhelming scene to try to draw for many reasons but it is even harder to...
CONTINUE READINGThis week for the last of my SketchingNow Adventure this year, I headed to Parramatta. It marks a half way point in the metropolitan area and is located at the point where the Parramatta River becomes freshwater. It also the location of the oldest inland European settlement in Australia; within a year of the British...
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