This month inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon we’ve been exploring the theme of ‘three’ and it’s been a lot of fun. I am seeing ‘threes’ in lots of different aspects of my sketching including: using a watercolour triad (discovering three colours which work together well and have enough pigment variation!) sketching three objects...
CONTINUE READINGWell, the OneWeek100People challenge is over for another year – and what a great week it was! I did two rounds of 100 and was interviewed for a newspaper article. Some years I don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to the challenge (so I know what it’s like to approach the 100 goal...
CONTINUE READINGDay 1: 24 completed! I haven’t been sketching people much lately and as I didn’t get a chance beforehand to warm-up and work out my tools I decided to start this year’s challenge at home working from photos. I intend to sketch on location this week, but I just wanted to start easily. Plus it...
CONTINUE READINGLast month I taught a 2-day workshop on Cockatoo Island. It was an expanded version of my Sketching with Shapes workshop and the extra day allowed me to add edges and watercolour exercises before we focused on shapes. It was also the first time I’ve taught a two-day workshop for a number of years and...
CONTINUE READINGI love it when there are connections between the various concurrent projects I’m working on. Sometimes it is by design (I’ve chosen the projects so that they have themes in common) but there are often synergies that I don’t expect. This month I’ve been going through the second half of my Watercolour course, exploring...
CONTINUE READINGI’m really excited to announce that Marc Taro Holmes and I are hosting another One Week 100 People challenge this year starting 9 March 2026. And amazingly it’s the tenth year! The goal is to sketch as many people as you can from life or from photos and see if you can reach 100. You...
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