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A little Australian Architecture in watercolour markers

August 8, 2022 | Leave your thoughts Architecture Sketching

In the past week I’ve been having lots of fun getting to know two different types of water-soluble markers from the Faber Castell range (The Gold Faber Aqua Markers and the Albrecht Durer Watercolour Markers) and exploring ways of combining them with either coloured pencils (Polychromos) or watercolour pencils (Albrecht Durer Pencils). If you missed...

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Flinders Street Station - Step by step

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As promised earlier in the week, here is a step-by-step explanation of the Flinders Street Station sketch that I did for Faber Castell Australia‘s #colour4life competition. See here for more details about the competition including a short video. For this sketch I used a combination of ink, coloured pencils and markers (both permanent and water-soluble)....

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Recent Sketches: More of the same but I'm not bored!

August 3, 2022 | 6 Comments
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It’s been two weeks since I’ve done a Recent Sketches article so that means a lot of scanning to get up to date! 🙂 In this collection you will find: My usual morning coffee and Village Green sketch when it was not raining or a cafe interior if it was Work done for the last...

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Working with Faber Castell and testing new products

August 1, 2022 | 2 Comments
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For the last few months, I’ve been working with Faber Castell Australia on a few projects. I’m a featured artist for their Colour4Life competition and last week I taught a workshop to some of the Faber Castell staff. Today Faber Castell Australia has kicked off their wonderful annual competition #colour4life with some great prizes. This...

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