Last year when I was in Krakow, Poland, and sketching with the local Urban Sketcher group, I met Roman Szmal who was developing his own line of watercolour paints. He had been working with local artist Agata Kwiatkowska and gave me the second set he had ever made up. After exchanging business cards he headed...
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A few weeks ago I got a new fountain pen. It’s an Opus 88 Fantasia and I love it a lot. Such lovely colours! It’s an eyedropper pen meaning that you fill up the body of the pen with ink (no cartridge) so that you get a lot of ink storage. This is a pocket...
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At the moment, when I’m not sketching people, I have been preparing the material for the workshops which I’m scheduled to teach in Europe over the next few months – the Palladian Odyssey Tours (in both the Umbria and Veneto regions of Italy) and the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Amsterdam. Two weeks ago I had...
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Well it’s been a fantastic challenge and it’s been so super inspiring to see people all over the globe push themselves to sketch as many people as they can. Well done to everyone who attempted this challenge – I hope that you sketched more people than normal and that it pushed you forward in some...
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