I 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...
CONTINUE READINGThe USK Wellington event finished on the Monday afternoon, but I stayed in town for the rest of the week until a 7:30pm flight on Friday! This gave me a chance to do a little more exploring in a relaxed way. There was quite a bit of rain in the second week but that was...
CONTINUE READINGAs mentioned in the last article, I was very excited to teach a workshop for the USK Wellington 10th birthday weekend – I always love getting an opportunity to teach how to sketch with shapes. I had two wonderful groups who did some great work in very trying conditions. The weather was cold and windy...
CONTINUE READINGI spent 12 wonderful days in Wellington during January. The reason for the trip was to teach at a 10th birthday event for Urban Sketchers Wellington (huge thanks to Andrew James and the amazing admin of USK Wellington for inviting me and organising such a great event.) New Zealand has many beautiful natural wonders but...
CONTINUE READINGDuring January we were using some unused supplies inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon! It was such a great monthly theme and fun to see a range of different work inside the community. I decided to spend some weeks getting to know Inktense pencils. I bought a 72 set many years ago and although...
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