I’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...
CONTINUE READINGThis will be the last article from my recent trip to France – and it’s a chance for me to share a few composite images I created in the lead up to Sketchbook Design. They show a collection of double-page spreads from the two 8×10 Alpha softcover sketchbooks I filled during my 3 week trip....
CONTINUE READINGAfter the symposium in Toulouse, I had a four-day road trip with my friend Francoise. She was driving back to Belgium and dropped me off at Charles de Gaulle Airport on the way. We visited a number of gorgeous places on the way – all fairly close to the most direct route, which you can...
CONTINUE READINGGetting back to articles from my recent trip to France…. It’s always a little hard to do a symposium blog post as so much happens that it’s impossible to summarise in a few words and images. But here goes… I had a great time in Toulouse – spoke to so many people, sketched with some...
CONTINUE READINGAs part of my prep for the Live Version of Sketchbook Design (starting this week on Wednesday, 9th September), I’ve been looking through old sketchbooks and have been struck by how important it is for me that my pages contain both images and words. It’s been interesting to see how my combination of text and...
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