Foundations starts this week: Summary of the main concepts

June 15, 2026 | Leave your thoughts SketchingNow

If you haven’t already heard… I’m hosting a 12-week Group Self-Paced Version of Foundations – starting this week on Wednesday, 18 June 2026. This will be a chance to sketch your way through Foundations alongside an inspiring cohort of sketchers worldwide! Each week, you’ll be prompted to move on to the next section of...

Recent sketches (varied with lots of experiments)

June 8, 2026 | 2 Comments

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Everyday Sketching

A few nights ago I was in the mood for some scanning (really!?!) and the result is this blog article! It contains sketches using our recent Patreon themes of framing and darks (night time sketching, back lighting and varied shadow colours), plus some mixed media work. Note: I’ve finally started using my Neocolor IIs again...

Recent Teacup sketching!

June 1, 2026 | Leave your thoughts

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Teacup Sketching

After a long break, I decided to start working through my teacup collection again! I’ve almost exclusively been drinking from this green glass cup and using a cream teapot (both are dishwasher-friendly) this year, but I recently decided I needed a little more colour and pattern in my life! So I’m now in a phase...

Always a good subject to draw: what's on my desk?

May 25, 2026 | 4 Comments

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Everyday Sketching

Last week, I had a video call with Andrew James from Wellington, New Zealand. (Aside: Andrew is doing lots of fun reels at the moment on Instagram here and writes wonderful weekly articles on his Substack here.) While we talked, I did some reflex sketching of the things on my desk. The funny thing was...

Night Sketching

May 18, 2026 | Leave your thoughts

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Sketching Sydney

Thanks to our ‘Darks’ themes this month inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon, I’m doing some night sketching. And loving it! Here is the side door to St Andrews Cathedral and the entrance to Sydney Town Hall. It’s the perfect time of the year for night sketching here in Sydney, as it’s getting...

Backlighting

May 11, 2026 | 8 Comments

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Everyday Sketching

This month inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon, we have the theme of ‘darks‘. There are lots of different aspects possible to this theme – focusing on shadow shapes and starting with the darks, painting black objects, using more dark colours, night sketching. I’m exploring all of these… but I’m also doing a series...