It’s only a few days time until I pack my bags and head to Europe for 3 months of remote working. And my second destination is scheduled to be this gorgeous hilltop Umbrian town which will be my home for nearly 3 weeks as part of the Palladian Odyssey 2019 Tours. Naturally I am extremely...
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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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