It’s been way too long since I drank from my Old Country Rose teacup and sketched it. It was fun to combine my watercolour with brand-new acrylic markers I got last week – seeing if I could soften the marks before they dried. Sometimes it worked and sometimes I didn’t get the effect I was...
CONTINUE READINGIn the last few weeks, I’ve been painting with some new semi-opaque watercolour sets that Fuumuui kindly sent me. They are the Cremora range of paints and I was sent the Muted Set, the Warm Terracotta Set and the Vivid Colours Set. How gorgeous is the muted set? These paints differ from Western watercolour in...
CONTINUE READINGAs mentioned in an earlier article (see here) I spent the month of September using collage in my everyday sketching (thanks to the monthly theme of Starting on Colour inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon) I loved this challenge so much – it was great for abstracting shapes and playing with colour and pattern....
CONTINUE READINGIn preparation for last week’s Sketchbook Design livestream, I did a little review of the maps I’ve done recently. And in the process, I realised that I haven’t been drawing maps much at all! So here is a few maps that I found… And when I have drawn maps while travelling, I’ve kept them really...
CONTINUE READINGI’m absolutely loving going through my Sketchbook Design course again with an amazing cohort. So much fun! It’s giving me a chance to rethink how I use text and headings, and it’s reminding me how much I love ‘colour blocks’. These are coloured backgrounds that can really make your pages pop! I typically use them...
CONTINUE READINGNow that I’ve finally finished sharing my France adventures, it’s time to catch up on my everyday sketching. This month we have the theme of Starting on Colour over in my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon and I’m using this theme to explore collage. I did a really fun workshop at the Urban Sketchers Symposium...
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