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Archive

  • 2008
    • June 2008
      • Starting a blog!
      • Food Diary: Repetitive Project
      • Food diary: Unplanned page
      • EDM 174: Draw a bridge
      • Sketchcrawl No.19: Cockatoo Island
      • Food diary: Update
      • Food diary: Counting food....
      • Food Diary: Sketching dinner twice
      • Sketching mess at Putney
      • Saturday sketches
      • Monday update
    • July 2008
      • Food diary: Designing pages
      • Food diary (varying my approach) and EDM 179: Onion
      • Four Amazing Italian Architects
      • Food Diary: Finishing the month
      • On the table - Afternoon at Milson's Point
      • Some Non Food Posts
    • August 2008
      • Two days out with family
      • Catching up with friends
    • September 2008
      • Travel sketching workshop and cafe sketching
      • Tasmania08: Day 0 - First Night
      • Tasmania08: Day 1 - Hobart and Richmond (A huge day!)
      • Tasmania08: Day 2 - Sunday Notes
      • Tasmania 08: Day 3 - Up the Heritage Hwy
      • Tasmania 08: Day 4 - A mountain driving day
      • Tasmania08: Day 5 - North Coast
      • Tasmania08: Day 7 - Huon River and Hartz Mountains
      • Tasmania08: Day 6 - Back down the Heritage Hwy
      • Tasmania08: Day 8 - Last day around Battery Point
      • EDM 190: My Palette
      • Revisiting Middle Head
    • October 2008
      • A new sketchbook: Canson Watercolour book
      • Hagia Sophia
      • A Gum Nut
      • Sketching at Nutcote
      • October Virtual Sketch date
      • 20th World Wide Sketchcrawl
    • November 2008
      • Milsons Point: A great place to end a busy week
      • Big Sketching day: Chinese Gardens and the Art Gallery
      • EDM 198: Noodles
      • November Virtual Sketch Date
      • The Real Me!
      • A visit to the Zoo
    • December 2008
      • A Tea Cosy
      • More Tea cosies and a USB Cup warmer
      • Traffic Sketches
      • New colours in my palette
      • Mini Sketchcrawl: East Balmain and Mort Bay
      • A friend's brief visit to Sydney - Monet exhibition, thai dinner and morning coffee
      • Last Day at Work for the year - petrol queue and a fancy lunch
      • A subdued start to my holidays
      • An Obelisk
      • My first knitted tea cosy
      • Sydney Harbour on Christmas Day
      • Watching the start of the 2008 Sydney to Hobart Race
      • Photos of Me Sketching at Q-Station
      • Family Christmas Day 2008
      • Monet exhibition and first visit to T2 teahouse
  • 2009
    • January 2009
      • Berry Holiday - Part 1
      • Berry Trip - Part 2
      • Random stuff: A brown chair, some shells and another tearoom visit
      • Short Holiday to Port Macquarie
      • Solo Sketchcrawl - Coalport cup and Kokoda Track
      • Francesco Rimini
      • Food ABC
      • Iced VoVo
      • Too Hot to Sketch Outside
      • Australia Day at Fagan Park
      • Friday night sketching: Brussels Town Hall (and Gouda too!)
    • February 2009
      • Thinking about the Victorian bushfires
      • My New Royal Albert Tea Set
      • A High Tea Birthday Party
      • Weekly Spread: Dreaming of Venice
      • The Other Half of the Royal Albert 10 years Tea Set
      • A new sketchbook and lots of sketches
      • Evening sketching with inktense and fewer teacups
      • A busy journal day - handbags and an unwanted steeple
    • March 2009
      • Inktense colour chart
      • Armchair Travelling - Spain, Scotland, Italy, Norway and France
      • A new hobby and some special antiques
      • T2 tearoom visit 3
      • Out and about sketching: Local parks, Balmain, Art Gallery and Leichhardt
      • SS Redentore by Palladio
      • Ca' Rezzonico - in stages
    • April 2009
      • A resolution: People sketching and more landscapes
      • A busy Saturday: A wedding and another T2 visit
      • Easter in The Blue Mountains
      • ANZAC Day: Local Memorials and my nephew's party
      • A New Journal and a palette title page
      • A change in weather
      • Milan Cathedral
      • Everyday in May 2008
    • May 2009
      • Everyday in May 01: Blind Portrait
      • Friday Night Traffic
      • Saturday: Chatswood morning tea and my favourite tea
      • Everyday in May 02-04: Mouths and noses
      • Everyday in May 05: More Noses
      • Everyday in May 06: Even more noses
      • Everyday in May 07: Boring Dark suits
      • Everyday in May 07 (cont): T2 people
      • Everyday in May 8: heads and lunchtime sketching
      • Visit to T2 tearoom again
      • Everyday in May: A superhero, a sketching session and another angophora
      • Friday night cuppa
      • Catching up of Everyday in May
      • Watercolour Pencil Class with Kate Johnson: Getting to know my pencils and a little mixing
    • June 2009
      • Watercolour Pencils: Rocks, Trees and Landscapes
      • Watercolour Pencils: Various versions of the Three Sisters
      • Watercolour Pencils: Scottish Landscapes
      • Watercolour Pencils: Water
      • Watercolour Pencils: Flowers
      • Tokyo String Quartet in Action
      • A big collection
      • Watercolour Pencils: Animals (Museum Sketching)
    • July 2009
      • Watercolour pencil experiments with a chunky pencil and more
      • Incorporating watercolour pencils into my work
      • A new cup
    • October 2009
      • Trip Prep 2009
      • Back Home
      • More of 'Back Home'
      • A Sketchers Bag
      • Europe09: Day 00 - The Journey Begins
      • Europe09: Day 01 - The Adventure begins! Heathrow to Cardiff
      • Europe09: Day 02 - Cardiff
      • Europe 09: Day 03 - Sunday in Cardiff
      • Europe 09: Day 04 - Cardiff to Hay on Wye
      • Europe 09: Day 5 - Hay on Wye to Bala
    • November 2009
      • Europe09: Day 06 - Bala to Caernarfon via Harlech
      • Europe09: Day 07 - Caernarfon to Llandudno via Beaumaris and Penryhn
      • Last weekend: In the garden, T2 with a difference and a birthday
      • Sketchbook Catch Up
      • Europe09: The Bear in Wales
      • A Nice Saturday: T2 tearoom and the boy's cubby house
      • Europe09: Day 08 - Wales to Newcastle including Castle Howard
      • Archive Sketches of Castle Howard
      • Europe 09: Day 09 - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
      • Architectural Research Tangent - Villa Rotunda and Flickr chats
      • Architectural Comparison - Two chapels in San Lorenzo
      • Another Handbag
      • White bag, Baroque, Kaufmann and wedding flowers
      • Europe09: Day 11 - To Scotland via Durham and Earl Grey's tearoom
      • Architectural Reading and Sketching
      • Europe09: Day 12 - Kelvingrove, Glasgow
      • Europe09: Day 13 - More Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Wil Freeborn
      • Europe09: Day 14 - Edinburgh
      • Sydney Sketchcrawl 25 - Botanic Gardens and Art Gallery
      • Europe 09: Day 15 - Sketching with Stuart Kerr and lots of tea in Edinburgh
      • Europe09: Day 16 - Last Day in Edinburgh
      • Happy Thanksgiving: A turkey sandwich
      • Europe09: Day 17- Heading for the Highlands
      • Euope09: Day 18 - Exploring the Isle of Skye
    • December 2009
      • Europe09: Days 19-20 Scottish West Coast
      • Europe09: Days 21-27 - Inverness and Around
      • Pyrmont Markets
      • Some of my Saturday purchases from Pyrmont markets
      • Europe09: Paris...
      • Europe09: Paris Day 01 - Sacre Coeur and Garnier Opera
      • Paris Day 02 - Monet, The Louvre and Le Select
      • Friday after work at Milsons Point
      • Quiet Morning Tea at T2
      • Europe09: Paris Days 03-04 - Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower and Musee de Quai Branly
      • Europe09: Paris Day 05 - Notre Dame and surrounds
      • Europe09: Paris Day 06 - Trip to Versailles
      • Europe09: Paris Day 07 - Last Day in Paris and a little Le Corbusier
      • Europe09: Heading home!
      • Finished with Paris?
      • Monday night scribbling
      • Weekend sketches - socialising and shopping
      • Summer09/10: Let the summer holidays begin!
      • Summer09/10: A day in Town - High Tea and Town Hall
      • Summer09/10: Another day in Town - Sydney Hospital, St James, St Marys and T2
  • 2010
    • January 2010
      • Summer 09/10: Xmas and Boxing Day
      • Summer09/10: Trip to Port Macquarie
      • Summer09/10: A few days at Avoca Beach
      • Summer 09/10: The rest of my holidays
      • A suburban masterpiece?
      • To sketch or use CAD when designing?
      • First Week Back at Work - starting Journal 25
      • T2 visit: A little bit of everything
      • A little Greek Architecture tangent
      • My Remains of the Day Journal
      • Castle Howard on Moleskine Paper
      • Weekly T2 cuppa and some text pages
      • Australia Day Hot Air Balloons
      • A Classical Distraction: Column Bases
      • Australia Day Part 2
      • Sennelier palette and my first Daniel Smith colours!
      • A nice gum tree and a plastic plant
      • Visiting Taronga Zoo and Balmoral Beach
    • February 2010
      • Europe09: Index of all my articles
      • The books I am reading and the moment - and some visual notes
      • EDM 258: The inside of my wardrobe (closet)
      • A rainy Saturday in the museum and T2
      • Starting to sketch at work
      • Europe 09: Flip through all my sketchbooks
      • Starting Journal 26 with 5 minute Vanbrugh
      • EDM 259: From a Pet's Point of View
      • How did I make my issuu books?
      • Another wet Saturday (and visit to T2)
      • Palazzo Corner Spinelli
      • The Rest Park at Lunch
      • Sketching at work this week and pleased with the results
      • Friday night randomness: One hour exercise
      • Zoo visit 2: Sketching animals and architecture
      • More Sunday Notes
      • Creating a work sketchbook
      • 10 minute sketch of QVB
      • Pre-dinner sketch
      • Sketchcrawl 26 - Macquarie St
    • March 2010
      • A new idea, a gym bag and being thankful
      • From the Archives: Europe07 - Scotland, Norway and Prague
      • Induction and Ordination
      • From the Archives: Europe07 - Florence and Rome
      • Borromini, Banister and a new bag
      • From the Archives: Europe07 - Paris
      • Mini Trip Prep and a bit of Banister
      • Finishing one sketchbook and testing a new one
      • Family Gathering in Greenwich
      • A new book and another title page
      • Mini Trip Prep 2: My essential kit
      • The full kit for my sketching trip to Canberra
      • EDM 260 Draw your filled suitcase
      • Canberra 2010: Day 1
      • Canberra 2010: Day 2
      • Canberra 2010: Day 3
      • Masterpieces of Paris Exhibition Visit: Tips and Thoughts
      • A few lunchtime sketches in Crows Nest
      • A Big Saturday: John Haycraft workshop
      • Back lighting
      • This Week: Lunchtime sketches and Luna Park
      • Virtual Paint Out in Norway and another visit to T2
      • Drinking Mountains and a Really Wild Tea Cosy
      • On the same old theme....
    • April 2010
      • Happy (Bilby) Easter!
      • A Zoo Visit to sketch Bilbies
      • A non Baroque Late Night Sketch
      • T2 tearoom visit with a friend!
      • Another T2 teahouse visit and a quick tree sketch
      • Darcy Wisdom
      • Really Wild Tea Cosies Book Launch
      • BB at Artiscon's Exhibition
      • My third visit to Cockatoo Island
      • BB at Cockatoo Island today
      • Yesterday lunch and weather from two years ago
      • What I ate today
      • Baroque Therapy
      • More Really wild tea cosies
      • Rapidograph: Old tool - new toy!
      • T2 Blue Mountains Tea
      • Saturday afternoon in Beeecroft and Cheltenham
      • Published! - in a Brazilian airline in-flight magazine
      • EDM 164 Revisited: Draw a camera
      • Lots of tea cosies including a new one I've just finished!
      • Darling Harbour before a conference day
      • National Architecture Conference 2010: Day 1
      • National Architecture Conference 2010: Day 2
      • Cockatoo Island on Anzac Day
      • HELP! Where have the lines gone? - My very first paint only sketches!
      • Socialising and sketching
      • Getting Ready for Everyday in May
    • May 2010
      • EDM in EDiM 01 Draw a Shoe
      • Nephew's 3rd birthday and ANZAC remains
      • EDM in EDiM 02 Draw a Lamp
      • EDM in EDiM 03: Draw a bag
      • EDM 04 in EDiM A mug
      • EDM in EDiM 04b Draw a cup
      • EDM in EDiM 05 Draw your bed
      • EDM in EDIM 06 Childhood Toy
      • EDM in EDiM 06 Childhood Toy -Take 2
      • EDM in EDiM 07 Draw a tin from your kitchen
      • T2 Teahouse Grid
      • EDM in EDiM 08 Draw your watch
      • EDM 09-11 Organised chaos, my hands and my glasses
      • Cupcakes from Saturday night
      • EDM in EDiM 12 Draw your dinner
      • EDM in EDiM 13 Draw A Phone
      • EDM272 A Line from your favourite (Scottish) song
      • EDM in EDiM 14 What you see BEFORE you get up
      • Sketchcrawl 27: The Rocks and Customs House
      • EDM in EDiM 15-17 A tree, a favourite tool and musical instrument
      • EDM in EDiM 18 View out of a window
      • EDM in EDiM 19,20,22 A collection
      • EDM in EDiM 20 and 23 Something Dad
      • EDM in EDiM 24 A piece of fruit
      • EDM in EDiM 25 Draw a Glass
      • EDM in EDiM 26 Draw a vegetable
      • EDm in EDiM A (Gene Stratton Porter) Book
      • From my Dad's Portfolio
      • EDm in EDiM 28 An Appliance
      • Australian String Quartet Concert
      • EDM in EDiM 29-31 Rushing the last three!
    • June 2010
      • Journal #30 started
      • My Rome Book from 2004 trip
      • English Baroque to break the drought?
      • Experimental Page and thoughts on perspective
      • Two books and a tin of tea
      • Another visit to the T2 teahouse (for a change?)
      • A new blurb book: A Perfect Cuppa
      • Sketching Skyscrapers with friends
      • Its official, its on, its started... Trip Prep 1 & 2
      • Trip Prep 3: Art Supplies 1
      • Vivid Light Festival 2010
      • Blog Neglect
      • Blue Mountains Tea again
      • Trip Prep 4 & 5: Paint and Sketchbook Setout
      • Trip Prep 6-8: Travel kettle, my folder and some wardrobe decisions
    • July 2010
      • Trip Prep 09: Random Sketch - Random Thoughts
      • Trip Prep 10: Getting a sense of scale
      • A shopping trip = A T2 visit too
      • Trip Prep 11-12: Sketchbooks
      • Trip Prep 13: Sketchbook Test
      • Trip Prep 14: Tea Related
      • A little Palladian Therapy
      • Trip Prep 15: Here they are!!!
      • Wedding Sketch - well dessert anyway!
      • Getting the important stuff ready first
      • T2 (all day!) with friends
      • Trip Prep 16: Tearoom Suggestions?
      • Trip Prep 17: Putting my full art kit together
      • Time for a break from T2?
    • October 2010
      • Back home and back to T2
      • Big Trip 2010: Back home and back sketching Sydney
      • Big Trip 2010: Here they all are
      • Stocking up on my secret weapon
      • A Lunchtime Sketch
      • Big Trip 2010: Borromini's Friends - Part 1
      • Balmoral on a wild Friday Evening
      • Big Trip 2010: My art souvenirs
      • 29th International Sketchcrawl: A typical Saturday
      • Big Trip 2010: Two huge day trips from Seattle
      • Big Trip 2010: Urban Sketchers in Seattle Dinner
      • Big Trip 2010: Queen Marys Tearoom and other Seattle sketches
      • Big Trip 2010: Portland - the day before the symposium
      • Big Trip 2010: Urban Sketchers Symposium in Portland - Day 1
      • Big Trip 2010: Urban Sketchers Symposium in Portland - Day 2
      • St Marys Cathedral, Hyde Park Barracks Tools and Red Shoes
      • Big Trip 2010: Urban Sketchers Symposium in Portland - Day 3
      • Lunchtime sketching and going through my trip art purchases
      • Big Trip 2010: Volume 1 in full - Seattle and Portland
      • Big Trip 2010: Last (big) day in Portland
      • Big Trip 2010: Time in Kansas City
    • November 2010
      • Big trip 2010: New York sketches - Part 1
      • Mahler instead of Melbourne Cup - sketching while listening to classical music
      • Big trip 2010: New York sketches - Part 2
      • Big Trip 2010: Volume 2 in full - Portland, Kansas City and NYC
      • Big Trip 2010: Edinburgh
      • Friday Night restlessness - yellow theme
      • Big Trip 2010: Isle of Lewis
      • Big Trip 2010: Volume 3 in full - NYC, Edinburgh and Isle of Lewis
      • Big trip 2010: Inverness and surrounds
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 01 - Bean Drinking
      • Post Trip Restlessness and sketching my sketchbooks
      • A little Venice Sketch Therapy
      • Big Trip 2010: Isle of Skye
      • Getting back into the Groove
      • Big Trip 2010: Glasgow
      • Big Trip 2010: Newcastle upon Tyne and some Vanbrugh
      • A social sketching weekend!
      • Sketching to the rescue?
      • Sketching Diet Day 2
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 02 - Crow Zone
      • The best tearoom!
      • The most hip roof form?
      • My favourite tree at my favourite time of the year
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 03 - Coffee Culture
      • My Grandma's funeral (and one of her teacups)
      • Back Home: Thai dinner and a T2 visit
    • December 2010
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 04 - Cafe 107
      • Big Trip 2010: Great Houses and great tearooms of England
      • Big Trip 2010: Blenheim Palace and a quick visit to Bath
      • An afternoon at Woolwich Dock
      • Big Trip 2010: Cardiff and London
      • Big Trip 2010: Volume 5 in full - England and Wales
      • Big Trip 2010: Venice Part 1 (with Esther)
      • Big Trip 2010: Venice - Part 2 (with Esther)
      • Big Trip 2010: Volume 6 in full - Venice
      • Big Trip 2010: Bologna (with Esther)
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 05 - Wrapido
      • Big Trip 2010: Rome - Part 1 (with Esther)
      • Big Trip 2010: Rome - Part 2 (back to solo sketching)
      • Big Trip 2010: Rome - Part 3
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 06 - Sparrow
      • Big Trip 2010: Tuscany
      • Another Rome sketch - One that I missed?
      • Hyde Park Barracks, Martin Place Xmas tree and cups of tea
      • Big Trip 2010: Volumes 1-4 in full
      • Big Trip 2010: Volumes 5-8 in full
      • Big Trip 2010: Index and a few favourite sketches
      • Happy Holidays! - Have a Cool Summer
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 07 - Caffe Nostra
      • Holidays!! (again!)
      • Sketchy Xmas Eve
      • Sketchy Xmas Day
      • Guess who is going away again
      • John's shed
      • I actually had a swim at the beach today!!
  • 2011
    • January 2011
      • My Summer trip to Port Macquarie
      • A shelley high tea!
      • Off again....
      • Part of Kate Johnson's new book....
      • Back from camp
      • Morning playing games and afternoon cup of tea
      • A Non-Sketchbook Sketch
      • Final Sketching Day of my summer holidays
      • Nanna's Cup
      • My drawing board
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 08 - Fabrik
      • From the Archives: My first travel sketchbook!
      • Daily sketchbook 35 has begun
      • Sketchbook Composition Liz-Style
      • A few hours in the Botanic Garden
      • I hope my sister sees this
      • Bits from this week.....
      • San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Sketches
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 9 - Montagu
      • The Big Tidy Up
      • World Wide Sketchcrawl 30 at Manly
      • Botanic Garden - Victoria Lodge
      • Mirazozo
      • A rare Liz Sketch of BB
      • My Australia Day - a tearoom visit and no sewing!
      • Can a cuppa tea save 160 lives?
      • I know I know....
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 10 - E61
      • Rome vs Bologna
      • A big sketching day - Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
    • February 2011
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 11- St Malo Bakery (plus a Royal Albert supper)
      • Understanding Architecture through Drawing - Sydney Opera House
      • A non sketching day?
      • More on the Opera House (and Harbour Bridge)
      • A Postcard exchange project
      • Blue and Broad Baroque
      • Postcard For My Walk Exchange: From Tuscany
      • Bag Crisis
      • Exciting Parcels and starting a colour book
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 12 - Cafe Ticini
      • Review of my big trip palette
      • QVB: Starting a big sketching day
      • A big social sketching day: Harbour Bridge, Tara Tearoom and the gardens
      • Sketching during a photo shoot
      • This week: Quin Burnt Orange, Baroque testing and Darling Harbour dinner
      • What is the connection between teacups and Baroque facades?
      • Another 'non-sketching' Saturday
      • Distracted by the moment
      • This week
      • Tea and Trees
    • March 2011
      • My sketch on the Great Garden Sketchabout Flyer
      • Postcard For My Walk Exchange: To Robyn
      • Three great tearooms/cafes in 24hours
      • In today's Sydney Morning Herald...
      • Garden Sketchabout Prep: Bag swap and sketching trees
      • Garden Sketchabout 1
      • Gym visit and thinking about Japan
      • Postcard For My Walk Exchange: From Katherine
      • A strange mix and some palette questions
      • Out with the old and in with the new
      • Garden Sketchabout 2: Photos
      • Garden Sketchabout 2: Sketches
      • Calling all travel sketchers
      • Venice Warmup
      • Lightbulb moment - process not product
      • What a week!!
      • Garden Sketchabout 3: Government House
      • Tara Tearoom Again!
      • Tea Cosies and Gothic Revival Revisited
      • Thursday sketches: A castle at lunch, an evening tearoom visit
    • April 2011
      • This weeks sketches
      • Garden Sketchabout 4: Music in the gardens and two tearoom visits
      • Thursday architectural sketch and an exhibition opening
      • Friday sketches: sketchbook change, gym and people sketching
      • Garden Sketchabout 5: The Herb Garden
      • Books and Tea Cosies
      • Starting a Watercolour Moleskine again
      • A few more moleskine pages
      • Garden Sketchabout 6: combined with Sketchcrawl 31
      • Monday's sketches: An exciting visitor has arrived
      • New friends at T2
      • Easter at Home!!
      • Tea Cosies coming out my ears!
      • My Sketchabout Sketchbook in full
      • Easter Tuesday: Cockatoo Island and T2 with Eza
      • The Paginated Garden Exhibition
      • A new sketchbook and Hawksmoor's towers...
      • Minding the exhibition and an another tearoom visit
      • Everyday in May begins... EDiM2011-01: Draw a bar of Soap
    • May 2011
      • EDiM 2011-02: Draw a power plug
      • Work Day Trip to Melbourne
      • EDiM2011-03: Exercise?
      • EDiM2011-04: Salt and Pepper shakers
      • T2 high tea with Eza
      • EDIM2011-05: Something tart -- EDIM2011-06: Scissors
      • EDiM2011-07: How I get my News -- EDiM2011-08: Light Bulb
      • Sydney's Best Portuguese Tart? Sweet Belem
      • EDiM2011 09-12: Catching up
      • EDiM2011-13: A fence
      • A crazy plan for the day and reality....
      • Catching Up....
      • EDiM2011 Crisis!
      • A surprise postcard!
      • Trip Prep 01-03: Thinking about paint (and other things)
      • A new colour- Cobalt Blue Deep W&N
      • A busy busy day & how I finish off my pages back home
    • June 2011
      • Food Diary 2011 - Starting Again
      • A Preview of my NEW blurb book
      • Getting Ready for a new book
      • Trip Prep 04: Lisbon Red Roof Red
      • Trip Prep 05: Clothes Planning
      • My sketching diet - A weeks worth of food!
      • books!!!
      • Trip Prep 06: The colour of the sky
      • Food and Murano Take 3
      • Trip Prep 07: Palette Planning Update
      • Trip Prep 08: Trying something for the 2nd time (a third is needed!)
      • Vivid Sydney 2011
      • Queens Birthday Weekend Saturday
      • Queens Birthday Weekend Monday
      • Trip Prep 09: More MOO cards!
      • Trip Prep 10: In search of the perfect bag
      • Trip Prep 11: How many sketchbooks
      • My sketchbooks ready for action
      • Ash Cloud disruption and a work trip to Melbourne
      • Celebration Food Sketch
      • Trip Prep 12: That all important mix part
      • Trip Prep 13: The {almost} perfect bag!!
      • Trip Prep 14: The all important tearoom research
      • 10 min lunchtime sketch
      • Trip Prep 15: Talking to myself about cameras
      • Trip Prep 16 & 17: Music and Exhaustion
      • Trip Prep 18 Compositional Fun
      • A busy Saturday - preparing palette and a Noodlers Flex pen
      • Trip Prep 19: Getting my Art Supplies together
      • My sketching gear in my new bag
      • Trip Prep 20-22: People, balustrades, modillions and a sewing project
      • Yet another thai meal
      • In response to questions...
      • Trip Prep 23: A dose of John Summerson
    • July 2011
      • Trip Prep 24: Trial Run (for bag etc)
      • Pre Trip Sketching Day
      • My new BLURB book is available
      • Trip Prep 11 revisited
      • The bear's proudest moment - IN PRINT!!!
      • Trip Prep 25: Itinerary Based Action List
      • Trip Prep 26: Refining Page layout
      • Brown ink
      • Trip Prep: A brand new paint tin
      • Trip Prep 27-28: Map research from 2000
      • Trip Prep: Final colours in my paint tin
      • Trip Prep Day -4: Starting my first sketchbook
      • Final daily sketching kit
      • Trip Prep Day-2: Collection Night
      • A special card
      • Trip Prep Day -1: All packed but not yet on holidays
      • Two books
    • August 2011
      • Back Home - with lots of homework!!
      • Back Home: A few chores this morning meant a visit you know where
      • Borromini's 4th birthday
      • A lovely surprise: another postcard from Marni
      • Back Home: another sketch I did the day I got off the plane
      • Heading out to the streets of Crows Nest
      • Photo of my sketch of Rossio Station for the silent auction
      • Trip 2011: The 30 hour Journey Sydney to Newcastle
      • Trip 2011: First Full day in Newcastle
      • Lisbon 'regrets'
      • Trip 2011: Socialising with friends in Newcastle
      • Getting back into sketching...
      • Trip 2011: Edinburgh (part 1)
      • Trip 2011: A Wee Scottish Urban Sketchers Symposium (Edinburgh part 2)
      • Trip 2011: Morning in Edinburgh (and then heading for Lisbon!!!)
      • Trip 2011: Arriving in Lisbon for dinner
      • Trip 2011: The Day Before (the Symposium)
      • Trip 2011: USK Lisbon Symposium Day 1
      • Late night Baroque sketch - mid week!
      • USK Lisbon Symposium Day 2
      • A very special sketchbook from the symposium
      • Trip 2011: USK Lisbon Symposium Day 3 - Part 1
      • Trip 2011: USK Lisbon Symposium Day 3 - Part 2
      • Needing a remedy for Post Lisbon Symposium Syndrome?
      • Sweet Belem Round 3, a NinaBrush and a Szaza handwritten letter
      • Trip 2011: Video from Day 1 Lisbon
      • Sketching in the city
      • Just another T2 visit
      • Borromini Bear - The most stylish bear around (thanks to Ea!!!)
      • Some Early Colonial Architecture of Sydney and more....
      • My new Schmincke Set
      • A morning at Cockatoo Island with Alissa and Lola
      • A new sketchbook and yet another paint tin!
      • Trip 2011: Belem Day with Marc Taro Holmes
      • Trip 2011: My Lisbon Sketchbook in full
      • Lets Start at the very beginning....
      • My architecture sketching from past to present
      • Trip 2011: My art purchases
    • September 2011
      • Schmincke Set review
      • Why I love Baroque architecture so much??
      • Another Nanna Cup
      • Trip 2011: Church Conference in Cardiff
      • Trip 2011: Cardiff
      • Trip 2011: Some welsh hills and an amazing tearoom
      • Trip 2011: Off to London... out of control 1st afternoon!
      • Trip 2011: Social day in London
      • Trip 2011: Another social day in London!
      • Trip 2011: Last day of my trip
      • San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (2004 pages)
      • Middle Head and Burnt Orange
      • Do you need perfect perspective to draw architecture?
      • A new colour - W&N Potters Pink
      • Trip 2011: My London Sketches in Full
      • Trip 2011: Volume One
      • Thinking about maps in travel journals
      • Travel 'journal-style' pages
      • Architects Sketchbooks
      • Trip 2011: Week in Cardiff (last post I think!)
      • A computer Free Weekend coming up!!!
      • Sketching is really the best way to understand architecture
      • This week I am reading and NOT sketching - well tonight anyway!!
      • Visual Note Taking - An amazing insight into FLW's work
      • Rice Crackers - Too cute to eat
      • Hardwick Hall Revisited
      • Nanna's China: Noritake Coffee Set
      • A great start to a long weekend
    • October 2011
      • A big food sketching day!
      • What is inside my bag?
      • Please humour me a little
      • Spring Sketchabout and sketching about....
      • A special package!
      • A discussion about perspective
      • Town Hall Sketching
      • Back to black (black tea!)
      • Sketchcrawl 33 - A solo effort at home
      • People Palette
      • Familiar Shoes!!!!
      • Quick work trip to Melbourne
      • Sketches from Saturday: T2 and Ballast Park
      • Summer Frocks
      • My usual Baroque sketching therapy
      • Basket Case Baroque
      • 2nd video from USK Symposium in Lisbon
      • Friday night craziness
      • Kedleston Hall Sketches
      • Yet another Rome sketch
    • November 2011
      • Prep for a challenging but self imposed sketching assignment
      • I am ALWAYS sketching architecture
      • Venice Breakfast
      • I got my USK Singapore Book!!!!!
      • No lines!!!!
      • Relaxation vs Experimentation
      • A vitrual model of Ancient Rome
      • Rome to Tasmania
      • A new sketchbook started
      • Back to Cockatoo Island
      • The passage of time
      • More sketches from the archives - 2000
      • Quiet weekend
      • This weeks sketches
      • No escaping my 'liz-ness'
      • Catching up again
      • Sydney Red Brick House
      • San Lorenzo Chapels
    • December 2011
      • Summer Trip Prep Planning
      • Ordinary Life
      • Xmas Tree in Martin Place, lots of buildings and some tea cosies
      • Summer1112 Trip Prep: Holiday Clothes
      • Random Stuff
      • Birko sewing shopping
      • Alpha vs Gamma (sketchbook paper)
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 13 - FIX
      • WIP: another one of THOSE pages
      • Pudding!
      • Summer 1112: art supplies
      • Summer1112: The Traditional Way to Start a holiday
      • Summer 1112: Day 1 - A tourist day!
      • Seasons Greetings
      • Summer 1112: Day 2 - A museum day
      • At echo point
      • Are we going down? Pulpit rock
      • Summer 1112: Day 3 & 4 -'Christmas'
      • Summer 1112: Day 5 - Heading to the Blue Mountains
      • Summer 1112: Day 6 - A day in the Blue Mountains
      • Summer 1112: Day 7,8,9 - A big Bash match and other bits
      • My 2011 in sketches
  • 2012
    • January 2012
      • Summer 1112: Day 10 & 11 - The start of a new year
      • Summer 1112: Day 12- At home..sorting, sewing and cricket on the radio!
      • Summer 1112: Some of the Thunders
      • Summer 1112: Day 13 - Day in town with Jennifer
      • Looking back on 2011 and thinking about 2012
      • Summer 1112: Day 14 - Auburn adventure with Chris
      • Summer 1112 Day 15 - Day with Nick..budding Urban Sketcher at age 6!
      • Summer 1112: Day 16 - Paddington Reservoir Gardens
      • Summer 1112 Volume 1 in full
      • Summer 1112 Volume 2 in full
      • Friday night (English) Baroque and Saturday T2
      • A (shocking) confession
      • A holiday from sketching architecture
      • A special gift from Spain!
      • Palladio and a Spanish Teapot
      • Getting ready for tomorrow's sketchcrawl
      • Sketchcrawl 34 - Plan A and Plan B!
      • Quick sketch - Avenue Rd Cafe Mosman
      • Australia Day at home- Our hills hoist
      • Five years of sketching
      • A day in Cabramatta
      • The rest of my sketching for January
    • February 2012
      • African Tea
      • Friday night architecture sketching
      • T2 mezzanine and a local 'castle'
      • A million views later....
      • I got a copy of THE BOOK today!
      • How not to bake my cakes (of watercolor)
      • Sketching with Freddie from Georgia,USA
      • Lunchtime Kerb Sketching
      • ABC of Home: A
      • Crazy Roof Extension
      • Its all Greek to me...
      • ABC of Home_A2 Antenna Ando Adams
      • Getting excited about my B reading list
      • Sushi Train
      • Sketch of The Art of Urban Sketching
      • Waterfall Cottage
      • Plane sketches (the view and a little Baroque!)
    • March 2012
      • Between Mona Lisa and Banksy
      • Well it now is official.....
      • My "Adventures with my sketchbooks" talk
      • Guess who has finally got out on the streets for some sketching this morning!!!
      • ABC of Home_B1 Beads and Borromini
      • How loose can I go?
      • Historic Ink pen collection
      • Current ink pen collection
      • No lines!
      • Friday Night at Bathers, Balmoral
      • A t2 visit with a difference
      • An unplanned weekend
      • Radcliffe Camera: 12 years later and still wrong!
      • Testing orange and red mixes
      • Radcliffe Camera Take 2
      • A quiet Friday night: Sewing and London sketches
      • The 5 orders of Architecture
      • Alishan Oolong instead of the Kokoda Trail to Rivendell
      • Grand Scottish Landscape with a big flat brush
    • April 2012
      • Full Pan Palette
      • Architectural Elements: Windows
      • This year's Easter Bilbies
      • Start of my break - visit to T2
      • Mixing Homework
      • Easter sketching: Family time, architecture sketching, Cockatoo Island and T2
      • Trying again and other stuff
      • Architectural Note Taking Sketching
      • Wednesday collage
      • Another hot cross bun and some architectural experimenting
      • Having fun with linework
      • A big day at Cockatoo Island (with lots of photos)
      • Friday cuppa and white space
      • Mixing Orange
      • A keen tea drinker?
      • Me sketching vs Work Sketching
      • Sketchcrawl 35 - Cockatoo Island and a 'certain' tearoom
      • Testing some colour mixes (from a favourite book)
    • May 2012
      • In less than two weeks
      • Current sketching supplies
      • ANZAC Day sketching in the city
      • EDiM2012 1-3: Let's try Every Day in May again!
      • EDiM2012 04: A present
      • Documenting the T2 teahouse
      • EDiM2012 05: Something sweet
      • the Artist's magazine - June 2012
      • Current reading pile
      • Quick inkless sketches
      • The Drawing Office revisited
      • Lunchtime sketching - loose and splashy
      • NYC Architecture Research
      • Loose linework
      • Two days in Melbourne - including amazing dinner with clients
      • What is the focus of the sketch?
      • Everyday Randomness
      • Sydney Suburban Scene
      • Checking my perspective
      • Tea cup experiments and thoughts
      • An afternoon in the Veneto (thanks to my books!)
      • Too much of a good thing... sketchbook vs loose pages
      • Brutalist Beauty and Carribean Baroque
      • More Loose Linework
      • Starting a Food Diary again!
      • Diet roast dinner (and how I sketch and eat)
    • June 2012
      • A new blurb book coming soon
      • A wet Saturday in town
      • More MOO cards
      • Trip Prep - The palette plan
      • This week (so far!)
      • Done a little sketching this afternoon
      • Sketching the Opera House....
      • Trip prep - new pen/pencil holder
      • Catching Up on Friday's solo sketchcrawl - sketchbook pages
      • More catching up - Fridays A4 sketches....
      • Long Weekend: Rivendell and sewing plans
      • Trip Prep - Page template
      • Trip Prep- How Many sketchbooks
      • First cut... the page some of you have been waiting for!
      • Unexpected sketching opportunity
      • Trip Prep - Carry on stuff
      • Clean palette all ready for the trip
      • Travelling in style!!!!
      • T2 (half hearted)
      • Trip Prep SDQ Zona Colonial Map
      • Tonight's activity is NYC research
      • More copies of my new book soon to be released
      • Trip 2012: Art Supplies 1
      • Trip2012: The Full Kit
      • Trip2012: Pre trip visit to T2
    • July 2012
      • Trip2012: Another item or 2 to add to my art kit
      • Trip2012: The night before the night before
      • Trip2012: All Packed!
      • Trip2012: Sketchbooks
      • Trip2012: Day 0 - my long journey
      • Trip2012: Day 1 - out sketching on little sleep!
      • Trip2012: Day 2 - still exploring Santo Domingo on my own
      • Trip2012: Day 4 - fellow Urban Sketchers start to arrive....
      • Trip2012: Day 5 - Getting to the beach (among other things!)
    • August 2012
      • Trip2012: Sketchbook 1 in full
      • Trip2012: Symposium Goodies
      • Trip2012: Day6 - the day before the symposium
      • Trip2012: Day 7- Symposium Day 1
      • Trip2012: Day 8 - Symposium Day 2
      • Trip2012: Day 9 - Symposium Day 3
      • Trip2012: Day 11 - Final Day in Santo Domingo
      • Trip2021: Santo Domingo Photos
      • Trip2012: Day 12- First Day in New York
      • Finally get a chance for a quick lunchtime sketch
      • Trip2012: Day 13 - NYC Downtown
      • Trip2012: Day 14 - Tea, France and Danny!
      • At Radiance Tea House NYC
      • Trip2012: Day 15 - A wet but huge sketching day in NY
      • Trip2012: Day 16 - My last full day sketching in New York
      • Trip2012: Day 18 - Final (out of control) morning in NYC
      • Needing to chill
      • Back Home sketching
      • Trip2012: My symposium sketchbook in full
      • Buying in bulk (tea of course!!!)
      • Gifts Gifts Gifts
      • Crates in perfect location at Newtown
      • Newtown Post Office - On location and back home
      • Travel Clothes Review
      • Trip2012: My NYC sketchbook in full
      • Ho Hum, I am so predictable!!!
      • The end of an era and trying something new
      • Fun with markers at work
      • Being painted by Anne Watkins
      • Sketching the ships across at garden Island
      • Thinking about my Jefferson Market Library Sketches
      • Garden Island Another attempt
      • Friday night sketching - just for fun (are you kidding?)
    • September 2012
      • Markering at T2
      • Markers out on location (and a new friend for Borromini)
      • St Thomas Rest Park with markers (5 mins there, 2 mins later)
      • Wednesday morning architecture
      • St Leonards Naremburn and first thoughts on using markers
      • Full colour markering
      • Watercolour vs Markers in my Canson Art Book
      • Friday marker sketches - morning and afternoon and printing time doodle
      • Monday morning sketching at St Leonard's
      • Megan Nielson Patterns and St Leonards from the gutter again
      • Context vs Object Explorations
      • Analysis of what I did this morning
      • Three things from today - including a new bag!
      • Semi detached and two ways to do sky
      • Interviewed by Art by Wiley
      • This week
      • Streams in the Desert and my childhood Bible
      • Trying to mix Australian greens
      • White house: starting with roof and with no perspective
      • My marker palette
      • This week - changing sketchbooks
      • Tea tasting at Dragonwell Teahouse Pyrmont
    • October 2012
      • Back again sketching St Leonard's church with markers
      • Watercolour vs Marker
      • This week in marker sketches
      • Tea related marker sketches
      • Not quite a normal monday
      • A new sketchbook
      • 37th international sketchcrawl (a quiet solo day)
      • Sketchbook vs Journal
      • Having fun with A4 sketchbooks
      • Mixing greens with markers
      • Friday night Luna Park
      • A few hours at the zoo
      • Watercolour is back!
      • Recent marker sketches: Churches and houses
      • Morning and Evening
      • Playground and paint playing?
      • French Baroque
      • Grey mixing
      • I have got it! (mixing grey from phthalo blue)
      • Obsessed with mixing greys
      • Waiting for the ferry and splashing paint around
      • Getting used to my moleskine watercolour sketchbook
      • Lane Cove VIllage
      • My new palette revealed!
      • Thursday morning - no lines and thick flat brush
    • November 2012
      • Starting a new sketchbook
      • First spreads in a huge sketchbook
      • Large sketchbook fun
      • Pages this week...
      • Castle Hill Morning etc
      • Missing in action
      • Sunday Monday - Berry Island Boatshed
      • Cockatoo Island in the fading light
      • Paint-only Cockatoo Island
      • Blenheim Revisited (Saturday night armchair sketching)
      • Cockatoo from Greenwich on a sunny evening
      • Friday morning watercolour splashing
      • A sketchless visit to the zoo (almost!)
      • White Joy!!!
      • Back to markers ...
      • Markered Cockatoo Island
    • December 2012
      • Wrap up of the first gathering of USKers in Sydney
      • St Thomas church North Sydney
      • Getting ready for my summer holiday
      • Testing S&B Zeta paper
      • Testing out new paper with a Baroque sketch
      • Getting Ready
      • WIP...All I could manage today
      • A day in the life of Liz Steel - continued
      • Last sketch & walk for 2012
      • All Packed!
  • 2013
    • January 2013
      • Back at T2 working large and wet
      • I am in experimentation mode!
      • Singapore Trip: Getting there
      • This timber house is safe(relatively) from bushfire
      • Singapore Trip: First day - USKSG Sketchwalk in Tiong Bahru
      • Singapore Trip: Chrstmas Eve
      • Can I have salt with my tea please?
      • Singapore Trip: Xmas Day
      • Singapore Trip - Teacrawl day
      • USK Sydney at Pyrmont
      • Singapore Trip: Shophouse Day
      • Singapore Trip: My big day
      • Singapore Trip: Bedok Sketchwalk and Marina Bay Sands
      • Singapore Trip: New Years Eve
      • Singapore Trip: New Years Day
      • Singapore Trip: The last day
      • Singapore Sketchbook in Full!
      • 38th Chatcrawl today....
      • At the beach
      • Overcast morning at the beach
      • Rocks are the architecture of the beach
      • Happy Australia Day to everyone!!!
      • Australia Day afternoon
      • Evening painting experiments
      • A liitle wild for my swim today
      • After the storm
      • Rocks and remnant seafoam
    • February 2013
      • I am not sure I want to go home.....
      • Back Home from Port Macquarie!
      • All my Port Macquarie Seascapes
      • Tea and Treasures
      • Good to get back into morning sketch and walk routine
      • USK SYD in Pyrmont
      • A break - From Inklines and much more!
      • Out and About sketching classes
      • My new Stillman and Birn Alpha Sketchbook
      • Chatting with Danny
      • Out and About Class Week 3 Thursday
      • Out and About sketching again
      • Using my lamy pen again....
      • Tea on a Floral Tray
      • Tea and Rivendell
      • Revisiting Rivendell.....
      • Two nights worth of sketching....
      • Friday night Baroque
      • Saturday evening Landscape
      • A quiet day at home
      • Sketch your Cake Class
      • More fun with watercolour and watercolour pencils
      • Bungalow
    • March 2013
      • Friday NIght Baroque with dissolving lines
      • USK SYD March event on Cockatoo Island in the rain
      • T2 with a brand new brush
      • From Alpha to Beta
      • First journal pages in my Beta book and a gift from Liege
      • Newtown masterpiece
      • The wait is over
      • Beta vs Alpha and a cute teapot
      • Watercolour vs Marker for an interior scene
      • Just add water and sparkle
      • More versions of the same interior
      • In Manly Casing the Joint - WHY?
      • A small world.....
      • BCN trip prep has begun
      • Bungalow In Water Soluble ink
      • So who has one of these?
      • Bits and Pieces
      • Monday morning
      • Wet in wet and no lines
      • Morning in Crows Nest
      • Collecting books
      • Wet Paint
      • USK BCN Rego
      • Wednesday night crisis?
      • On my studio table morning and evening
      • Good Friday 2013
      • Eilean Donan
      • Pretty In Pink
    • April 2013
      • New sketching bag and new palette
      • BCN Planning Meeting, a new palette and a new bag
      • Stuck in the Suburbs
      • Semi Detached with notes on the side
      • Looking through my books
      • Sketching in Newtown in the Rain with USK SYD gang
      • Melbourne13: Sketching in Fed Square
      • Melbourne13: Sketch free day in the Dandenongs
      • Melbourne13: Coffee at Pellegrini's with Jodi Wiley
      • Melbourne13: Meeting local sketchers Angela and Evelyn
      • Melbourne13: 39th Sketchcrawl
      • Melbourne13: My big last day
      • Slowing down am, crazy boys pm
      • Melbourne13: My Flinders St Station sketches
      • Mixing: Alizarin Crimson
      • Melbourne13: The week in a single image (plus an Issuu version)
      • Melbourne13: My Water-soluble Tools
      • Student vs Artist Quality watercolour
      • More Mixing (to narrow down choices for my palette)
      • My basic 12 colour palette (used in my Watercolour course)
      • Freehand Drawing and Discovery by James Richards
      • Manly Catch up.. and pigment talk
      • "Why do you sketch so fast?"
      • Manly architecture
      • Late Afternoon Sketch
      • Sketching and losing weight!
      • Second day of my food diary
      • A day in town on a glorious April day
      • A crazy house extension, more food and a little Ruskin
    • May 2013
      • Part of a great article on Urban Sketchers!
      • A beautiful day at Cockatoo with USK SYD
      • Barcelona warmup
      • My actual palette (currently as of May 2013)
      • Manly visit, cafe sketching and a little Baroque
      • Manly Sketching Class: Week 1 - Learning to See
      • In print again!
      • More BCN warmup and trying out a dagger!
      • A night of colour mixing
      • Looking at a Gaudi creation
      • Thinking about dresses and pigments
      • More BCN sketches...
      • How my lines have changed???
      • Manly Sketching class: Week 2 - Lines and Edges
      • Updated basic palette (and Australia sky blue)
      • Why Blogging is an important part of my creative journey
      • Everyday in May this year!
      • Manly Sketching Class: Week 3 - Value
      • Friday night baroque????
      • Another BCN planning meeting
      • My favourite mixes from my palette
      • Mixing paints with Jane
      • My new palette - after colour mixing with Jane Blundell
      • Manly Sketching class: Week 4 - Colour
      • Juicy vs wimpy
    • June 2013
      • USK SYD at Sydney Uni
      • Manly Sketching class: Week 5 - Buildings
      • Talk and Demo at Ku Ring Gai Art Society
      • Sad News - T2 Teahouse Macquarie Centre is closing down!
      • Revisiting my Singapore sketchbooks
      • Actually using my new paints!
      • Will you miss T2 teahouse too
      • Manly Sketching Class: Week 6 - Context vs Object
      • New chair at T2????
      • Chilli kiss and Lemon Drizzle (going wild at T2)
      • Working from Home
      • How to draw teacups (and other ellipses)
      • Symposium Preparations
      • Manly Sketching Class: Week 7 - Composition
      • Last Scones from T2 teahouse Macquarie Centre!!!!!
      • Time to make BCN palette decisions!!!!
      • The end of an era
      • Random Stuff
      • T2 teahouse no more
      • London sketches (trip prep or work?)
      • Choosing BCN colours
      • New Pen Holder Version 3
      • Manly Sketching Class: Week 8 - Play!
      • Trip Prep: Sketchbook thinking
      • T2 adventures at Hornsby
    • July 2013
      • Three Visitors from Scotland
      • Getting Travelling Art Supplies Ready
    • August 2013
      • Back Home!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Getting to BCN
      • BCN.UK.2013: Unfinished Pages
      • BCN.UK.2013: It is impossible to travel light these days
      • BCN.UK.2013: Day 3 Time for some Gaudi...and more!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Tuesday 09 - not non stop sketching!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Wednesday 10 - The Day Before
      • BCN.UK.2013: Symposium Day 1!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Symposium Day 2
      • Sketches from a BCN Reunion evening
      • Friday night experimentation (with a teacup of course!!!)
      • A visit to Balmoral
      • BCN.UK.2013: Symposium Day 3
      • Sub_urban Sketching: Draw the roof first
      • Sketching Mosman (Balmoral) Week 1
      • BCN.UK.2013 : Monday 15 'Belem Day' in Barcelona
      • Boring Buildings... Fun Colours
      • BCN.UK.2013: Tuesday 16. Day trip to Girona
      • BCN.UK.2013: Wed 17- Part 1 Casa Mila
      • Sketching Mosman (Balmoral) Week 2 - Lines
      • Sub_urban Sketching: More on Roofs
      • BCN.UK.2013: Wed 17- Part 2 A teacrawl!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Thurs 18 My solo day
    • September 2013
      • BCN.UK.2013: Friday 19 - My Last day in BCN
      • My BCN Sketchbook in full
      • Sketching Mosman (Balmoral) Week 3
      • 12 reflections on my 2 weeks in Barcelona
      • People Practice: Bic vs Sailor
      • A chance to share our BCN experiences!
      • Last week of Sketching Mosman classes
      • Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop at Melbourne University
      • The Forum in Melbourne
      • A wet day in Melbourne
      • Capturing the Moment Workshop Melbourne - Day 1
      • Capturing the Moment Workshop - Day 2
      • With the Melbourne Sketchers
      • Vanilla Slice and outing to Daylesford and Macedon region
      • Testing a new ultramarine
      • Cardiff sketchbook: notes and watersoluble pens
      • Loose lines but tight hand
    • October 2013
      • Sub_urban sketching: Infill Porch
      • A few challenges for myself. Colour Diet and Sketchercise
      • The day before the big Naval Review in Sydney
      • A special cubbyhouse and ironbark seed pods
      • London Day 1 - Starting on a high note!
      • London Day 2 - A bit of architecture and more sketching friends!
      • London Day 3 - A Wrencrawl and Meeting Adebanji
      • Colour diet (of 3 colours) starts
      • Liberty Store
      • Back at Balmoral - Sketching Class October Week 1
      • Final Day of my July Trip - Crazy morning in London and Seoul adventure!
      • Catching up on last week's sketches
      • Morning at Cockatoo Island
      • Thick and Thin
      • Old bottles and bushfire lighting
      • Balmoral Sketching Week 2 Line
      • Friday night's change of pace
      • 41st Sketchcrawl in Hyde Park, Sydney
      • Off Site backup (and thoughts about bushfires)
      • My Architecture Sketchbook article
      • Exciting parcels!
      • Down the drive (and more)
      • My lamy pen collection (plus a ring-in!)
      • On waterbrushes
      • Triads in The Rocks
      • Balmoral Sketching Class - Watercolour
      • My current sketchbook collection and an exciting find!
      • Starting a zeta book!
      • "Cute"
      • Taking photos of my work
      • Simplifying forms of complicated buildings
      • A little cafe sketching while working on some illustrations
    • November 2013
      • Final week Sketching Class at Balmoral
      • USK SYD at Milsons Point
      • Complex buildings are fun - The Louvre
      • Sketching Architecture in the Rocks:Week 1
      • My travel sketchbook collection
      • Doing homework....
      • Sketching Architecture in The Rocks: Week 2
      • Travel Sketching Workshop for Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society
      • A little late night perspective and two favourite architectural books
      • Tuesday night sketching
      • Architecture relaxation sketching to Brahms
      • Sketching Architecture Week 3: Perspective
      • A day of sketching for myself
      • A new precious possession
      • From Zeta to Beta
      • Today...
      • Sketching Architecture Wk 4 - Tone Colour and Texture
      • Trip Dresses and a fancy cup of tea
    • December 2013
      • Sketching Workshop in the Gardens
      • 1 Day workshop in the Rocks
      • HIghlights from my trip to Melbourne in September - Part 1
      • End of Year Morning Tea
      • HIghlights from my trip to Melbourne in September - Part 2
      • At Cockatoo Island again
      • Coffee while waiting for my car rego
      • A little trip prep - pens and palette
      • Summary of my Sketching Class in Manly in May 2013
      • T2 and St Thomas
      • Packing Art Supplies again....
      • My Art Tools
      • All packed (a day early) and a family Xmas (11 days early)
  • 2014
    • January 2014
      • Back Home: Making Changes in my studio
      • Back Home: Teacup sketches before and after
      • USK Day in Newcastle
      • Png:Sg Trip 01: Summary of my Penang Singapore Trip
      • Sketchbook Crisis
      • From Bondi to Mosman
      • Png:Sg Trip 02: The Adventure Begins
      • Png:Sg Trip 03: Day 1 Exploring Georgetown on my own
      • Png:Sg Trip 04: Day 2 Texture in Georgetown
      • New sketchbook: Great morning!!
      • Png:Sg Trip 05: Markets, tea and colonialism
      • Png:Sg Trip 06: Interlude - Thoughts on A Solo Sketching Day in Georgetown
      • Png:Sg Trip 07: Last solo sketching day in Georgetown Penang
      • New Blue Shoes
      • Png:Sg Trip 08: Day with the Penang Urban Sketchers
      • Png:Sg Trip 09: Week 2 - Hanging out with friends
      • Png:Sg Trip 10: Church Conference (at the Lost Paradise Resort)
      • Sketching The Rocks Classes - Feb and March
      • Sketchcrawl 42
      • Png:Sg Trip 11: Singapore!
      • Happy 'straya day!
      • Png:Sg Trip 12: My big sketching NYE day
      • Png:Sg Trip 13: The start of a New Year
      • Colour detox planning and my extra palette
      • Other January sketches
      • Png:Sg Trip 14: Some much needed solo sketching time
      • Exciting Alternative to Noodlers Bulletproof Ink
    • February 2014
      • Png:Sg Trip 15: Another Crazy social day
      • Png:Sg Trip 16: Another Adhoc Sketchwalk and more
      • Png:Sg Trip 17: Second last day - more USkers, more food...more shophouses
      • Png:Sg Trip 18: Final day. Cafe hopping and architecture sketching
      • More sketching classes and Saturday workshops in The Rocks
      • Sydney Sandstone and a bit of concrete (plus the paints I used)
      • A day off = more food sketching
      • Sketching Architecture In Brazil... and Sydney too!
      • Exploring The Rocks: Week 1
      • My paint tube wall unit
      • Catching up with my daily sketches for the last few weeks....
      • What is with all the coffee's lately?
      • Exploring the Rocks: Week 2
      • Random Warmup....
      • Sketching Architecture: Elements classes in Milson's Point/ Kirribilli coming soon
      • The red bin
      • Printer Painting
      • My recent Cuppa experiments....
    • March 2014
      • One Day sketching workshop in The Rocks
      • My studio brushes
      • Colour Detox
      • Talk and demo for the Medical Artist Group
      • A morning in St Peters and more stuff about paint....
      • Catching up on a busy week
      • Saturday night Baroque
      • International Urban Sketchers in Town!!!
      • Rockdale Arts Festival: Sketch the Cake
      • Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop Photos: Part 1
      • Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop Photos: Part 2
      • Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop Photos: Part 3
      • Painting with Paul....
      • Quick reflections on the past week (Expressive Urban Sketching workshop)
      • Wonky Circles are Okay
      • Cake sketching
      • The Entrance Visit and Workshop (plus a new peacock teacup!)
      • Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop Video
    • April 2014
      • This week so far....tea and cake, a paint palette and an Aalto brick wall
      • What has happened to my architecture sketching???
      • Pre: Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop adventures
      • The start of a new round of my 'sketchers diet' and a few car sketches
      • Back to Cockatoo Island... exploring textures with Jane
      • St Peters with USK SYD gang
      • Sketching the back streets of St Peters
      • Monday randomness...
      • Why is everything tea related?
      • Expressive Urban Sketchers Workshop - The Evening before
      • 7.5 years worth of sketchbooks - April 2014
      • Fancy teapot and cake
      • Still Life Distraction
      • Linelessness - painting buildings shapes not edges
      • Tweaking my palette again
      • Linelessness - Part 2
      • Boring buildings - fun shapes and lines
      • A change in direction
      • Bits and pieces (a little tea stuff as usual!)
      • My sketches at the end of the Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop
      • Workshops in Tasmania!
      • A mini crane crawl at Cockatoo Island
      • Tasmania Landscape - Mt Roland
      • I can't keep the paint away.....
      • Testing Black Pencils
      • Changing Steel's Grey and more Cobalt!
      • The start of Easter: Tea, a bilby and my day's trailer
      • A non sketchcrawl sketchcrawl?
      • Testing Buff Titanium: Do I ever get tired of sketching tea cups?
      • Testing Quick Travel Sketching Techniques in Surry Hills
      • A crazy house
      • Post Easter: George the Bilby
      • Can't stop experimenting!
      • Trying new ideas on new paper
      • Sketching architecture with Watercolour pencils (steps)
      • Thinking about Tassie all the time
      • Starting a big ANZAC day of work
      • A month ago - post workshop sketching with Paul
      • Sewing!
      • if only sewing went as quickly as sketching does….
    • May 2014
      • A morning at Rivendell
      • The Kokoda Track to Rivendell
      • From the Archives: A favourite page (or two)
      • Some trip prep
      • Recent Sketches: sewing, art supplies, cafe visits and the coal loader
      • Schmincke Translucent Orange…
      • A very quick sketch of complicated building
      • In a Tasmanian newspaper
      • Bits and pieces....and a new yellow teapot
      • Drawing a 'Tommy Kane' teacup
      • Teacup sketches for an exchange
      • Colour and palettes....
      • Winter Bag and St Peters Kempton
      • Two cups and a pot and a jug....
      • Getting in the mood for Tassie: Old Courthouse in Top Ryde
      • Getting in the mood for Tassie: A review of my 2008 sketchbook
      • A building I have to sketch again in Hobart
      • Dead flowers, a local house and another pear
      • Palomino Espresso
      • A peek into my studio
      • Brushstroke testing
      • Packing for a winter trip
      • In Hobart
      • TasTrip14: Prep for TMAG Hobart Workshop
      • TasTrip14: Sketching Workshop at TMAG Hobart
    • June 2014
      • TasTrip14: Arthurs Circus Painting Auction
      • TasTrip14: In Launceston
      • TasTrip14: Preparing for QVMAG workshop
      • Exciting parcels waiting for me at home
      • Pure reflex vs non dominant hand
      • A leftie's righthanded painting
      • TasTrip14: First two days in Hobart
      • USKSYD event at QVB
      • More right handness....
      • TasTrip14: More Hobart Sketches
      • TasTrip14: Day in Richmond
      • TasTrip14: Final Hobart Sketches
      • TasTrip14: Heading North along the Heritage Highway
      • TasTrip14: From mountains to Coast
      • TasTrip14: Launceston Architecture
      • TasTrip14: QVMAG Inveresk and workshop report
      • TasTrip14: Last day in Launceston
      • The Baron Castle Hill ...and more
      • Cumberland State Forest - Sketching with my Niece
      • Current Sketching Tools Updated!!!!
      • From my nanna's china collection
      • Daily Sketch: Two important tubes
      • A busy week and Sketchbook Skool starts next week!
      • In the garden, high heel shoes and a cake or two!
      • 3 gabled bungalows: 2 versions
      • Beyond the sketchbook....
      • Review of the new paper in the moleskine watercolour sketchbook
    • July 2014
      • Tasmania Sketchbook in full
      • A building I DID sketch again - Tasmanian Heritage Council Building
      • A little film... of me sketching
      • In The Rocks on a sunny winters days
      • Sketching on coffee cups for the Aroma Festival in The Rocks
      • My daily sketches last week
      • A crazy work day: sketching as processing time and a photo of my work bench
      • Time to start thinking about Brazil!
      • Moo Cards and some usual stuff
      • Rocks Workshop Day 1
      • Rocks Workshop Day 2
      • Leisurely Lilac
      • Architectural Illustration Work
      • Daily Sketches since Friday
      • A few new sketchbooks to test out!
      • Having a few days break - Liz Style
      • Port Macquarie Rocks
      • Three tearoom visits…
      • Sketch The Cake Workshop with Rockdale Council
      • Driving the Pacific Highway
      • Starting Local Houses series. Big planning Session and an hour in the garden
      • My current sketchbooks
      • Morning Sketch & Walk: Local Houses and Paper Testing
      • A Giveaway!!!
      • Sketching Architecture in Brazil... coming up!
    • August 2014
      • This week: Knitting, Waterbottles, a new cafe and a Daniel Smith Demo
      • The Australian Museum (and my yellow teacup)
      • Blue Gabled House and the dialogue in my head while sketching it
      • A Brown House and more about my Inner Critic
      • Straight lines are over-rated
      • Barangaroo
      • Sketchbook Skool Sketchmeet
      • Last week in my Zeta book
      • A coalport cup
      • White House
      • Brazil Trip Prep
      • Daily pages in my Zeta sketchbook
      • Having a cuppa with our friends and grandmas - Reflections on teaching at Sketchbook Skool
      • And the winner is.....
      • How to draw a teacup download
      • A few recent pages - a little trip Prep
      • All packed?
      • Rewind! When Urban Sketchers became real: Seattle July 2010
      • Rewind! Portland Symposium July 2010
    • September 2014
      • Rewind! Lisbon Symposium July 2011
      • Rewind! Santo Domingo Symposium July 2012
      • Rewind! Barcelona Symposium July 2013
      • Brazil sketchbooks
      • Brazil Trip: Initial Reflections and two big concepts to develop!
      • Brazil Trip 01: The Journey
      • Brazil Trip: Sao Paulo Day 1
      • Brazil Trip: Sao Paulo Day 2
      • Brazil Trip: First 36 hours in Paraty
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Wednesday
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Thursday early morning sketching group
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Workshop A - The Joy of Movement
      • Brazil Trip: Unfolding a Sketch Story with Richard Alomar
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Happenings
      • Brazil Trip: Early morning sketching gang Friday and Saturday
      • Brazil Trip: My workshop: Feeling the Edges of Santa Rita
      • Brazil Trip: From Paraty to Rio
      • Brazil Trip: Pao de Acucar(Sugarloaf) and Copocabana Beach, Rio
      • Brazil Trip: Workshop for Architecture students from RIo University
      • Brazil Trip: Quiet Days in Rio
      • Brazil Trip: Last (relaxing) day in Rio
    • October 2014
      • Brazil Trip: Back to Sao Paulo
      • Brazil Trip: Last day in Sao Paulo - Lina Bo Bardi Day!
      • Sketching in The Rocks again
      • A day in Manly on a jazz festival day
      • First sketches(es) back home post Brazil trip
      • Summary of my Brazil Trip
      • The Rocks - 2 Day Workshop October
      • Palladio, Gouache and a parenting magazine
      • Sketching inside a Gehry Construction Site
      • Pink Blue and Brown
      • Lambton Adventures with my Sketchbook (of course!)
      • Lambton Rotunda Musings: Do you need perspective to draw buildings?
      • Sketchcrawl 45: Bourke St Bakery and testing a support board
      • Sketching everyday life and making it memorable
      • SketchingNow Foundations Questions
      • Exploring THE Mix: Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine alternatives
      • My recommended minimal watercolour palette
      • Using Watercolour Pencils
      • Brown Ink
      • Sketchbook update
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop in Lambton
      • Sketching Adventure: Lambton
      • How to cure my gourd?
    • November 2014
      • Sketchbooks for Ink and (light) wash
      • Lean Week
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Kurnell Sydney
      • Messy Mixer
      • Creating and editing videos
      • Brown Lines and a relaxing Friday night
      • SketchingNow Foundations: Two days away...
      • A new teacup to commemorate a big day (and some trees)
      • Pocket Brushes and Expressive pens
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Palm Beach
      • Running off the page? Two approaches using Michelangelo and my niece's kitchen
      • Crazy crazy crazy
      • Mega book and shapes
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Blue Mountains
      • #putyourbatout
    • December 2014
      • Sketching for myself?
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Eastern Suburbs and South Head
      • De Atramentis Document Inks
      • SketchingNow Foundations Course Update
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Sydney Harbour and CBD
      • Coloured Ink - mixing a Raw Sienna with De Atramentis Yellow and Brown
      • The story of my red lines and a summary of the development of my work 2007-2014
      • Regents St Mortuary Station
      • Red ink lines
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Parramatta and Harris Park
      • The Flower Tribute
      • Sketching with International Visitors
      • Recent Sketchbook Pages
      • Ink and Pen Pairing
      • Holidays!!
      • Merry Christmas!
      • Christmas Eve Urban Sketching with coloured inks
      • A few quiet days - Christmas 2014 and a few references to cricket
      • Seeing the old year(2014) out quietly…
  • 2015
    • January 2015
      • Cockatoo Island 'Adhoc' USK SYD
      • 2014 Sketchbook Details and my 2015 ABM Planner
      • My first sketch for 2015!
      • More about sketching with coloured ink
      • Seven Coloured Ink Sketch (or was it eight?)
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Balmain
      • My Brazil Sketchbook
      • Lunch in an incinerator
      • In Paddington
      • In a Chai mood
      • SketchingNow Adventure Paddington
      • De Atramentis Document Fog Grey
      • Video Editing
      • The perfect project for 'The Perfect Sketchbook': A sketching diet!
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Manly Cafes and Dobroyd Point
      • Veggie Colour: making adjustments to my watercolour palette
      • The start of my Food Diary and first thoughts about ThePerfectSketchbook
    • February 2015
      • My 'unplug weekend' and a new hangout cafe!
      • Sketching The Incinerator
      • Tastrip15: In Launceston
      • Tastrip15: From Launceston to Hobart
      • TasTrip15: In Launceston Newspaper again
      • TasTrip15: A special day on the Tasman Peninsula
      • Tastrip15: First thoughts from my week in Tasmania
      • TasTrip15: An amazing place to stay in Hobart
      • TasTrip15 Full Collection Part 1: Launceston
      • TasTrip15 Full Collection Part 2: Oatlands, Hobart, Tasman Peninsula
      • Super5 Inks! First impressions
      • "Greens are hard"
      • Travel Sketching Talk and Demo for Castle Hill Art Society
      • Cascade Green and more!
      • Non-standard teacup sketches - WCP and cross-hatching
    • March 2015
      • The Foundations have been laid! Part 1: Sharing the framework
      • What is your cup of tea?
      • Exciting new workshop in Launceston
      • Four versions of Castle Howard: Which is your favourite?
      • Five Ways Paddington with USK SYD and my fude pen
      • TasTrip15: Street Scenes vs Iconic Building Sketches
      • Oolong Day
      • The Foundations have been laid. Part 2: Beginning the sketch and balancing line and colour
      • Two fun sketching day outs with Paul Wang: Manly and Surry Hills
      • Castle Howard Comparisons: The Results!
      • Prep for a new 2 Day Sketching Architecture Workshop
      • The Urban Sketchers Postcard set
      • The Foundations have been laid! Part 3: Heading out on location
      • More around town sketching with friends and some super fancy fountain pens
      • Sketching at home
      • "Draw Daddy's cake!"
      • Sharing a few 'just for me' pages
      • More socialising....
      • Stolen sketches on a wall in China
      • Even more socialising!
    • April 2015
      • Right hand sketching by a leftie
      • In Melbourne
      • Ballarat, Carlton and Richmond
      • City Arcades and Laneways, South Bank, South Wharf and Fitzroy
      • Melbourne Urban Sketchers in North Melbourne
      • Last two days in Melbourne....
      • Melbourne Sketchbook and Pen collection
      • 'Workshop Prep' and some sketching just for me
      • Beating the post-sketching-trip blues: 3 cafes in 3 days
      • Seven Reflections from my Melbourne Trip - April 2015
      • New sketchbook, new cafe and new project
      • ANZAC Centenary
      • 2 Day Sketching Architecture workshop: Macquarie St Sydney
      • What I like so much about Launceston - Part 1
      • What I like so much about Launceston - Part 2
      • Every Day In May
    • May 2015
      • EDinMay 01: Favourite Food - plus some thoughts about daily challenges
      • Sydney Hospital Courtyard with Urban Sketchers Sydney ... AND Penang!
      • EDinMay 02, 03 and 04
      • EDinMay: Something Hot
      • EDiM06 Something with bristles plus a sketch of my desk
      • Pointless Perspective - a practical approach to perspective for sketchers
      • An Update on My Sketchbooks
      • Catching up on Every Day in May: EDiM 07 - 11
      • Melbourne Sketches - Part 1
      • Mellbourne Sketches - Part 2
      • Melbourne Sketches - Part 3
      • New Product Review: The Outside Studio "Sketcher's Atelier"
      • Every Day in May: EDIM 12-16
      • Other recent adventures in my sketchbook
      • A day in town - a new tool and a surprise meeting
      • Every Day In May: Draw a cupcake (or six!)
      • A grand building - The International College of Management, Sydney in Manly
      • Swords and Daggers
      • First thoughts: W&N Water Colour Markers
      • My Melbourne Sketchbook in Full
      • Sketching the (ugly) everyday scenes of life - and finding time to do so!
      • Why Bother? Part 1: Pushing yourself for a challenge
      • Not pushing yourself!
      • Book Review: The Urban Sketcher by Marc Taro Holmes
      • Friday evening in Newtown
    • June 2015
      • Why Bother? Part 2: When you don't have the time
      • Sticking to my new resolution (making time when I go out) and a little Louis Kahn
      • Sketching between appointments - cafe and car
      • A lovely long weekend
      • Tea with Alice
      • Two quiet days: tea and cake sketches
      • SG Trip Prep 1: Palette Considerations and a few books
      • SG Trip Prep 2: Reviewing previous travel sketchbooks
      • Sketching 100 People in a Week - can I do it?
      • The blue door: A sketch I forgot to share at the time
      • 12 weeks of Foundations Handouts
      • Public Sydney: An AMAZING book!
      • Teacup week is starting again
      • Barangaroo Day and People Sketching
      • Busy busy SketchingNow but not sketching now
      • Post-launch wind down sketch
      • Perspective Workshop Prep
      • My work in two recent publications
    • July 2015
      • The last few days - USK and family
      • My Central Station Sketches and a testing a new Sketcher's Atelier
      • Not sketching?
      • Setting up a watercolour palette
      • Travelling with Ink
      • Trip Prep: Sketching my Kit WIP
      • The last few days... thanks to Instagram
      • In Singapore
      • Video from my first day in Singapore
      • Things are busy in Singapore!
    • August 2015
      • Back Home!
      • SingaporeCambodia 2015: Initial review of my big trip
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 1: The first two days
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 2: Leading up to the Symposium
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 3: The Symposium Days
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 4: Post Symposium Days
      • My Edges course is coming soon!
      • Cambodia2015 Sketchbook Part 1: Temples and Markets
      • Cambodia2015 Sketchbook Part 2: More Temples but more colour as well!
      • My Pointless Perspective workshop - with downloadable handout!
      • Edges and shapes: A preview of my SketchingNow Edges online course
      • A new (free!) cup
      • Everyday pages in a new sketchbook
      • Edges and Looseness
    • September 2015
      • It's On Again! Why I love running my interactive SketchingNow online classes
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Petersham
      • Hard vs Soft, Plane vs Colour
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Glenhaven (and Kenthurst)
      • An Edges update....
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Barangaroo
      • Edges sketch - Raglan St Mosman
      • Should I finish this sketch?
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Marrickville
      • Recent Edges sketches - Mosman house and some teacups
      • Palette Update!!!
      • Getting back to normal life after Edges
      • Old chair and new bag
    • October 2015
      • Travel Sketching ideas
      • A Saturday that feels like a Saturday
      • Travel Sketching Workshop in Launceston
      • Launceston (and Workshop) Sketches
      • Changing my 'fad' colour
      • New Book: Creative Sketching Workshop
      • New Teacup Era
      • Adult Coloring Books 1: An initial review
      • Lightening my Load
      • Tidying Up: Good feelings and sobering thoughts
      • Adult Coloring Books 2: Someone's else lines, old insecurities and my style
      • My Great Escape
    • November 2015
      • Back from Norfolk Island
      • Norfolk Island Part 1: Summary of my trip
      • Norfolk Island Part 2: Unplugging and having time to think
      • Norfolk Island Part 3: Struggles with a new sketchbook
      • Norfolk Island Part 4: Establishing a Rhythm?
      • Norfolk Island Part 5: Trying to stick to my quota
      • Norfolk Island Part 6: Wrap Up
      • Last week: Walking to and from work, some new tools plus a little Palladio and Vanbrugh
      • My Rosemary Brush collection
      • Sketchbook Review: Pentalic Aqua Journal compared with Moleskine Watercolor Notebook
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Postcard size yellow cup
      • Lightening my Load: How did I go?
      • Sketching Sydney: The Grounds of Alexandria
      • Cuppa Tea Time: The Tea Salon
      • Last week: Too many coffees, being around people and a little collage
      • My Monthly Newsletter and my favourite pen!
      • White Nights watercolours: Colour Chart
      • White Nights: First sketches
      • Cross Hatching: Perfect for when I don't think I have time
      • Last Week: Establishing a routine and a rhythm and thoughts about repetition
    • December 2015
      • Fountain Pen Sketching: 7 part series index
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 1: Introduction
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 2: Why draw with a fountain pen?
      • My (no longer annoymous) morning cafe visits
      • December Urban Sketchers Sydney at Martin Place
      • Last week: December Daily
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 3: Using a fountain pen
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 4: Choosing a fountain pen
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Embracing the wonkiness
      • New 722 brushes
      • Last week: Coffee, fountain pens and violet ink
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 5: Basic Pens
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 6: Pens with variable lines 1
      • “Give it three years” and three other helpful quotes from my friends
      • VIsiting Urban Sketchers in Surry Hills
      • Last week: Embracing the repetition
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 7: Pens with variable lines 2
      • Fountain Pen Sketching: Behind the scenes
      • Summer Break 2015: Hard or Soft?
      • Summer Break 2015: Christmas Day - Bondi beach, gingerbread and Palladio
      • Summer Break 2015: Boxing Day Family Day
      • Sketching Sydney: The Rocks and Millers Point
      • Cuppa Tea Time: 2015 Highlights
      • 2015 Blog Highlights
      • 2015 Sketchbook Review
  • 2016
    • January 2016
      • Some 2016 Planning
      • Cuppa Tea Time: First teacup for 2016
      • Summer Break 2015: My week off
      • On being a blogger - My vision for this blog in 2016 and beyond
      • "Locking In" my palette
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Working through my teacup collection
      • Foundations Friday 1: Knowing (and loving) your materials
      • Three years of (white) joy
      • Last week: My pencil testing week
      • Making mistakes with confidence
      • Reflex Sketching: Complex terrace house in Newtown
      • New Ink! De Atramentis Document White
      • Foundations Friday 2: Feeling Edges
      • Being inspired by Lloyd Rees all over again
      • Last week: Taking a line for a walk
      • Can I still do neat? Part 1
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Japanese Evening Mist
      • Fountain Pen Sketching: One month later and a big interview coming up
      • Foundations Friday 3: Abstracting Shapes
      • Planning and Dreaming (reviewing my 2010 trip sketchbooks)
      • Last week: Experimenting with text
      • Happy 'straya Day
      • Big News: Teaching in Manchester!
      • Art Tip: Shape first for light and colour
      • Foundations Friday 4: Constructing Volumes
      • Work Life: Getting things done
    • February 2016
      • Last week: Complete Randomness!
      • Big News! A book
      • Cuppa Tea Time: My never ending collection
      • From the archives: A NYC Fire Station
      • Teacup Stickers
      • Last week: Sketching Diet and Soviet Bus Stops
      • Chatting with Brian Goulet
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Just taking it easy
      • Foundations Friday 5: Measured Setup
      • Sketching Sydney: Socialising in The Rocks
      • Last week: Working at the front and the back of my book
      • Perspective vs drawing what you see and working spontaneously
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Green tea in green 'edges' cup
      • Foundations Friday 6: Minimal Setup
      • Out of Ink!
      • Last week: Recording Life
      • My Architect's Handwriting!
      • Sketching Sydney: Multi-tasking at Sydney Hospital Courtyard
      • Trip Prep: Fresh Paint, New adventures
    • March 2016
      • New-look Blog!
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Lady Carlyle
      • Sketching Obsession: Flinders Street Station
      • Foundations Friday 7: Putting it all Together
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Hot Cross Scones and working on my book
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 1: A Teaser
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 2: With the Watercolour Society of Victoria
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 3: Sketching Architecture Workshop
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop Sydney March 2016: Day 1
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop Sydney March 2016: Day 2
      • Last Week: Not sketching
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 4: A morning of work in Kew
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 5: Workshop Prep Days
      • Experimental Thursday night Palladianism and some old Venice sketches
      • Super quick hot cross bun: Only a few strokes of paint but lots of thoughts
      • Last Week: Creating art vs recording life
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 6: Final sketching day with friends
      • Sketching street scenes without perspective
      • Simplifying Palladio
    • April 2016
      • Teacup week has started again!
      • Last Week: Out of Action
      • Sketching Teacups: A step-by-step demonstration
      • Coffee Art: My latte journey so far
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Pre Edges Launch
      • Updated Sketching Architecture Page
      • Last Week: Not focusing on sketching?
      • Morning at Macquarie University
      • Sketching the orders of Architecture
      • Warming up to do work
      • From the archives: Ink and wash thoughts
      • Sketching my sketching kit
      • I did it - Now it's time to make changes!
      • Last week: Happy
      • Something different: ipad sketching!
      • Making changes to my palette
      • USKAUS SketchMeet 2016 Day 1
      • USKAUS SketchMeet 2016 Day 2
      • USKAUS SketchMeet 2016 Day 4
      • Last Week: Working two sketchbooks
      • Sketch Swap USK Sydney and Hong Kong
      • Don't miss a single article!
      • Foundations Friday 8: Balancing Line and Colour
      • Stamping Advice Needed
    • May 2016
      • Last Week: Slowing My Pace
      • Cuppa Tea Time: A scheduling error!
      • New SketchingNow Course for 2016: Buildings
      • Exploring Edges 1: Changes in Plane vs Changes in Colour
      • The colour of coffee
      • Foundations Friday 9: Composing the View
      • Thinking about Flaf
      • Last Week: Saying more with less
      • Exploring Edges 2: Hard vs Soft Edges and tips for sketching food
      • Getting Things Done with my Get To Work Book
      • Foundations Friday 10: Creating a Focus using Thumbnails
      • Last Week: Transitioning Sketchbooks
      • Three favourite art books
      • Trip Prep: Getting in the mood for some landscapes
      • Thumbnails of Loughborough, England (or are they sketches?)
      • Foundations Friday 11: Working from a focus
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Diana's Shelley Cup
      • Last Week: Reconnecting with my sketchbook
      • Sketch Idea: The view when you park your car
      • Europe16 Trip Watercolour Palette Revealed!
      • Heading to Manchester: meeting Richard Briggs
      • Foundations Friday 12: Reviewing Your Work
      • Art Thought: Fighting the Object Brain all the time
      • Last Week: Fitting sketching into a new routine
      • Sketching Architecture in Edges, Shapes and Volumes: Preview of my Manchester Workshop
    • June 2016
      • Art Thought: More on my Palladian Mistake
      • Art Thought: Basic Observational Skills vs Perspective
      • Trip Prep: Reviewing 2009 Travel Sketchbooks
      • Trip Prep: Eight weeks worth of watercolour paint
      • New workshop in Italy: Palladian Odyssey
      • Trip Prep: More Scottish Landscape Practice
      • Trip Prep: Sketchbook Strategies
      • Inspiring architects to start sketching (again)
      • Trip Prep: Testing my workflow
      • Trip Prep: Workshop Handouts and 6 month wrap-up
      • Trip prep: My Sketching Kit
      • First Day in Milan
      • Urban Sketching in Milan
      • Palladian Odyssey Planning Begins
      • Palladio, Villas and The Veneto
      • Palladian Odyssey Planning Week
      • SketchingNow Buildings: filming on location in Italy
      • Short Stay in Venice
    • July 2016
      • Lucca Workshop: Part 1
      • Lucca Workshop: Part 2
      • Weekend in Edinburgh
      • The Isle of Lewis 1: Balancing family, travel and sketching
      • Isle of Lewis 2: Down to Harris
      • Island Hopping: Lewis, The Black Isle and Skye
      • Heading South: Glencoe, Glasgow and Penrith
      • A day at Castle Howard
      • York, Rosemary Brushes and Derbyshire
    • August 2016
      • Sketching Manchester
      • Manchester Symposium Summary
      • From Manchester to London
      • Last days of my big trip in London
      • Back home and back to some serious planning
      • Back Home: Reflections on my Europe16 trip
      • Last Week: Adjusting to everyday life
      • My Salute sketch: Thoughts on making mistakes and being in the groove
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Out of Practice
      • Being satisfied with simple sketches
      • Last week: Why am I doing this every day?
      • How I carry my paintbrushes
      • Manchester Workshop: Architecture in Edges, Shapes and Volumes - with downloadable handout
      • Mixing it up in my palette
      • Being an USK symposium instructor
      • Last Week: A clear space to work
      • Sketching Architecture: Where to start?
      • Video Demo: Sketching Haworth Church
    • September 2016
      • My book is now available
      • Video: Sighting and Measuring Angles
      • Minimal
      • Video: My Lucca Workshop
      • SketchingNow Adventure: UTS Campus, Ultimo and Chippendale
      • Cuppa Tea Time: New cup
      • Cuppa Tea Time: My SketchingNow Buildings teacup
      • The best thing about running an online class
      • Permanent fountain pen inks for ink & wash sketching
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Rhodes
      • Are you afraid to sketch in public?
      • Advanced copies of my book
      • Last Week: Just when I think I'm in a rut...
      • Sketching Architecture: Texture
      • The Official Manchester Symposium Video
      • Sketching at the Planting Dreams exhibition
      • Softcover Stillman & Birn Sketchbooks: Initial Thoughts
      • Saturday's latte with mixed greys
      • Gearing up for inktober
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Glebe
      • 5 Minute Sketching Architecture: How to see
    • October 2016
      • Inktober begins
      • Taking a (Le Corbusier) break
      • Last Week: First round of Inktober sketches
      • Demos in my Instagram Stories
      • Daniel Smith event and thinking about colour
      • Update on my Stillman & Birn softcover sketchbook
      • A long weekend
      • Mid-month Inktober update
      • Playing with paint: Turpentine Tree
      • A great book on colour
      • Playing with Line and Colour: Handbag Collection
      • Inktober: Mixing it up
      • Sketching Workshops for Architects begins
      • SketchingNow Buildings Course Wrap-up
      • Video of the Palladian Odyssey: Are you joining me in Italy?
      • My First Sabbatical Week: Recharging my batteries
    • November 2016
      • A vlog of my sabbatical week sketches
      • Last Week: Sabbatical sketches
      • A quiet cuppa
      • SketchingNow Edges: A few reviews
      • Sketching Architecture: Shapes vs Perspective
      • Europe16 Favourite: San Simeone Piccolo Venice
      • Vlog 2: Making the most of little moments to sketch
      • Hedgren Clapham Mk 2: Is it still my favourite sketching bag?
      • Architectural Reference Book for Sketchers?
      • 5 Minute Sketching Architecture: Looking for stories
      • A bottle tree
      • Vlog 3: No time for sketching?
      • Last week: Sketches at home and from Brisbane
      • Sketching Kit in Action: My Support Board
      • 5 minute sketching architecture: line and colour
      • Vlog 4: Planned vs Spontaneous and a little food sketching
      • Last week: Experimenting with watercolour sticks and more
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Broken resolution
    • December 2016
      • Keeping it simple
      • 5 minute sketching architecture: Using fast tools
      • Vlog 5 Playing with new art materials - markers!
      • 2017 Calendar of my Europe Sketches
      • Wide angle perspective views and relying on relationships
      • My new pre-mixed grey watercolour
      • One year later: What are my favourite fountain pens?
      • Vlog 6: Acting on the thought "maybe I could do a sketch"
      • Palladian Odyssey Sketches: Touring the Veneto
      • Teaching architects to draw from observation
      • A collage of Foundations demonstrations
      • Cuppa Tea Time: My second sabbatical week
      • Palladian Odyssey Sketches: Vicenza
      • Happy Holidays
      • Sabbatical No. 2 and the Sydney Opera House
      • Sketchbook 97 in full
      • 2017 watercolour palette
      • 2016 in review
      • 10 years ago I couldn't use a paint brush: How I got started sketching
  • 2017
    • January 2017
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 1 - Knowing (and loving) your materials
      • New Zealand Trip: Part 1
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 2 - Feeling Edges
      • New Zealand Trip: Part 2
      • New Zealand Trip: 7 reflections from our sketching adventure
      • Back to Work: Starting and planning my 2017
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 3 - Abstracting Shapes
      • Video: NZ Sketchbooks in full
      • New Zealand Trip: Some favourite sketches
      • Video: Travel Sketching Tips from my NZ sketchbooks
      • Australia Day: The calm before the big party
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 4 - Constructing Volumes
      • My new favourite daily sketchbook
      • 2017 Art Goal: Get more people in my sketchbook
    • February 2017
      • Video: Finding a sketchbook that suits
      • French Ultramarine vs Ultramarine Blue
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 5 - Measured Setup
      • Trying out new stuff at an USK SYD event
      • Moving...
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 6 - Minimal Setup
      • Last week in coffee sketches
      • USK Symposium Chicago: Lost and Found Structure
      • Sketching People: Using a small book
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 7 - Putting it all together
      • First sketches from my new home
      • Sketching People: My Strategy
      • A new sketching challenge: One week 100 people
      • Video: My Italy Sketchbook from 2016 trip
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 8 - Balancing Line and Colour
      • A French Sketching Interview
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop: February 2017
    • March 2017
      • Gearing up for #OneWeek100People2017
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 9 - Composing the view
      • My Goals: #oneweek100people2017
      • Day 1 #oneweek100people2017: Let the challenge begin
      • Day 2 #oneweek100people2017: Achieving a flow
      • Day 3 #oneweek100people2017: Adding paint
      • Day 4 #oneweek100people2017: what to work on next!
      • Day 5 #oneweek100people2017: Thankyou!
      • Taking a Break: Sabbatical #3
      • Last week: Too wet to sketch?
      • Greens are hard but oh so important
      • Review of my goals for #oneweek100people2017
      • Sketching the same view in Surry Hills for the third time
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 10 - Creating a focus using thumbnails
      • 10x10 USK workshops: Building Portraits and People & Spaces
      • Art Gallery of NSW: Dry media and Simon Sinek
      • Video: Sketchbook 99
      • Happy Girl!
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 11 - Working from a Focus
    • April 2017
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Do I finish my sketch?
      • USK SYD: Mrs Macquarie's Point
      • Trying an old-style ink and wash sketch
      • Daniel Smith New Watercolours 2017
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 12 - Reviewing your work
      • Going from "Being Consistent" to "Adhoc for a season"
      • Cuppa Tea Time - A repeating pattern
      • Nightly Sketches: What to sketch?
      • 10x10 USK Workshops: Teaching Shapes and Learning Reflections
    • May 2017
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Another sabbatical?
      • Waterbrush vs 'real' brush
      • Learning from the ups and down of a big project
      • Video: Sketchbook 100
      • Getting things done, deep work and bullet journals
      • What clothes should I take on my trip?
      • My Daniel Smith dot card
      • My travel sketching kit and workshop stuff
      • Palladian Odyssey Tour 1
    • June 2017
      • Palladian Odyssey Tour 2
      • Europe17: Venice and Edinburgh
      • Europe17: Isle of Lewis & Harris
      • Europe17: A day in Glasgow
      • Europe17: Seven Reflections from my Italy & Scotland trip
      • Flying with Fountain Pens
      • Back Home: Reviewing the things I took on my trip
    • July 2017
      • Back Home: The struggle to find time to sketch
      • Preparing my workshop for the USK Symposium in Chicago
      • A 'something is better than nothing' sketch
      • Video flip through of Venice and Scotland sketchbook
      • What are the colours of Chicago?
      • One week 100 people is on again!
      • In Chicago!
    • August 2017
      • Back Home with new tools and new ideas
      • Chicago - Montreal Sketchbooks: Flip Through
      • Free Buildings Lessons
      • Lost and Found Structure: USK Chicago Workshop and Handout
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Borrowed Colclough cup
      • Seven Reflections from my Chicago/Montreal Trip
      • My Chicago Instagram Stories
      • FAQ: How do you do the guidelines for your writing?
      • Can a new sketchbook get you out of a rut?
      • Sketching Architecture: It's all about structure
    • September 2017
      • SketchingNow Buildings is open again
      • Video: The Impact of a new sketchbook
      • Meet me in San Francisco
      • A selection of my Montreal sketches
      • My favourite Chicago sketches
      • Sketching on live TV: WGN Morning News
      • Chicago: My Wrigley Tower collection
      • San Francisco-Bay Area: Part 1
      • San Francisco - Bay Area: Part 2
    • October 2017
      • Five reflections from my CA-TX trip
      • Palladian Odyssey Tours
      • SketchingNow Watercolour!
      • CA-TX Trip: Favourite Sketch
      • Video: Flip-through of my three CA-TX sketchbooks
      • My new side project: A sketching diet
      • CA-TX Trip: Hole in the wall coffee shop
      • Why do you sketch?
      • Sketching People Part 1: This year's progress
      • Sketching People Part 2: My breakthrough
      • Sketching People Part 3: Advice
      • seanwes Conference
      • Austin Part 1: With USK group and on my own
      • What's your favourite paint colour?
      • Austin Part 2: Sketching around the Seanwes community
      • Cuppa Tea Time: My new SketchingNow watercolour cup
      • Dallas First day: Visiting JFK sites
      • Would you attempt to sketch this scene if you only had 30 minutes?
      • A day in Fort Worth with USK DFW (including the Kimbell Museum)
    • November 2017
      • Last day in Dallas and the Arts District
      • My Sketchbook Collection - October 2017
      • What is my "go-to" brush?
      • Travel sketchbooking on the Palladian Odyssey
      • First Filming Day for SketchingNow Watercolour
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Another half sabbatical
      • Last Week: Not what I had planned
    • December 2017
      • Updated 12 colour palette
      • Palladio and perspective sketching
      • What's your favourite sketchbook?
      • Some buildings are fun (and quick) to sketch
      • SketchingNow Watercolour is now open
      • Another quick SF building watercolour sketch
      • Holidays
      • My 'Sip and Sketch' Teacup sketch
      • 5 years since I left my architect job
  • 2018
    • January 2018
      • A sketching review of 2017
      • Most popular articles in 2017
      • Palladian Odyssey Video
      • Watercolour course has started
      • A new view of Sydney Harbour Bridge
    • February 2018
      • I'm back! Sketching and blogging
      • Sketches from my summer break
      • First page of my sketchbook
      • A watercolour teacup
      • My Port Macquarie sketches from 5 years ago
      • One week 100 people 2018 : starting Mon 5 March
      • It's all in the details - really?
      • Perth: Hanging out with Lynne
    • March 2018
      • Day 1: #oneweek100people2018
      • Day 2: #oneweek100people2018
      • Day 3: #oneweek100people2018 and a few thoughts
      • Days 4 and 5: #oneweek100people - reaching 100!
      • Getting back to my morning cafe sessions
      • Perth: Hanging out with the local USKers
      • Perth: Final two sketching days
      • An exciting competition: Sketching work design
      • Do you struggle to sketch regularly?
    • April 2018
      • My NEW Everyday Sketching Project
      • Urban Sketchers 10x10 Workshops in Sydney
      • Teacup and Teapot
      • Florian Afflerbach: Der Zeichner
      • A free online sketchbook workshop
      • Update on my everyday sketching project
      • Cockatoo Island Overnight Stay and thoughts about my sketches
      • Watercolour Mixing: Green and Gold
    • May 2018
      • Some favourite sketchbook pages and layouts
      • 12 day challenge: Filling a small sketchbook
      • 2.5 months worth of paint?
      • New watercolour challenge for June
      • Europe18: In Vicenza - again!
      • 2018 Palladian Odyssey Tour 1
    • June 2018
      • 2018 Palladian Odyssey Tour 2
      • Europe18: Verona
      • Europe18: Florence
      • Palladian Odyssey Umbria workshop planning
      • My first half of the 30x30 direct watercolour challenge
      • Europe18: Three flight sketches
      • Europe18: A morning in Glasgow
      • Second half of the 30x30 Direct Watercolour challenge
    • July 2018
      • My takeaways from #30x30directwatercolor2018
      • Europe18: Isle of Lewis - Part 1
      • Europe18: Isle of Lewis - Part 2
      • Europe18: Weekend in Edinburgh
      • Europe18: A week in Krakow, Poland
      • Europe18: Krakow - Wawel Castle
      • Europe18: Krakow - St Mary's Basilica
      • Europe18: Krakow day trips - Auschwitz and Wieliczka Salt Mines
      • Europe18: A week in West Wemyss, Fife
      • Europe18: Fife Adventures
      • Europe18: A day in St Andrews
      • How to sketch on planes
    • August 2018
      • Beginner Workshops at the Sydney Pen Show - Saturday 18 August
      • Review of my Europe18 paint supply
      • Back Home: First cuppa sketch
      • USKPorto2018: Part 1 - Quiet Days
      • USKPorto2018: Part 2 - Busy days
      • USKPorto2018: Part 3 - Livraria Lello
      • uskporto2018: Part 4 - Symposium
      • uskporto2018: Part 5 - "It's all in the details" workshop (with downloadable handout)
      • uskporto2018: Lisbon Part 1
      • uskporto2018: Lisbon Part 2
      • uskporto2018: Lisbon Part 3
      • SketchingNow Watercolour is returning
      • New workshops: Complex scenes with edges and shapes
      • Seven reflections from my 11 weeks in Europe
    • September 2018
      • Sydney Pen Show Workshops
      • Why watercolour is so perfect for quick sketching
      • Podcast: How I use my mac devices for my work
      • Watercolour: traditional studio painting vs urban sketching
      • Watercolour magic
      • Watercolour testing (and thoughts on student grade kits)
      • Back Home: My everyday sketching in 3 different sketchbooks
      • Two articles in Watercolor Artist
      • Were these old sketches done with student or artist grade paint?
      • A Cotman Coffee Cup
      • 2019 Palladian Odyssey Tours - filling up fast
      • Student grade vs Artist quality watercolour - the big reveal
      • Mini Break to Port Macquarie
      • This week's coffee
    • October 2018
      • Tips for Sketching Complex Scenes in Shapes and Edges
      • Moleskine Watercolour Book: New (blue) label, better paper
      • My 2018 Palladian Odyssey Sketchbooks in full
      • Podcast: Art Supply Posse Interview
      • Quick Sketching Tips: Brisbane Customs House
      • CA18 Trip: San Francisco/Bay Area Part 1
    • November 2018
      • Daniel Smith Half Pan Kits
      • CA18 Trip: San Francisco/Bay Area Part 2
      • CA18 Trip: San Francisco/Bay Area Part 3 - Isaia adventure
      • CA18 Trip: Sketchkon Part 1
      • CA18 Trip: Sketchkon Part 2
      • CA18 Trip: Pasadena/LA Part 1
      • CA18 Trip: Pasadena/LA Part 2
      • CA18 Trip: Pasadena/LA Part 3
    • December 2018
      • CA18 Trip: Pasadena City Hall sketches
      • Three reflections from my CA18 trip
      • 2019 Workshops
      • Back Home from my CA18 Trip
      • Corner coffee with cobalt shadows
      • SketchingNow Watercolour On Location course
      • Sketching Sydney Icons
      • Warmup teacup sketching
      • Current Palette - Dec 2018
      • Going through SketchingNow Foundations in the new year
      • Last Week: Doing lots of sketching
      • Instagram's Top Nine and My Favourite Four
      • My current sketching kit - Dec 2018
      • A sketching review of 2018
  • 2019
    • January 2019
      • Last sketch of 2018
      • The most popular articles in 2018
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 1: New discoveries with my sketching tools
      • Teaching composition in Amsterdam
      • Last week: My home break
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 2: Feeling edges with continuous line
      • Last week: cafe sketching
      • Potter's Pink
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 3: Shapes, shapes and more shapes
      • Last week: Working on my new strategies
      • FAQ: How do you do the date headings in your pages?
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 4: A few Constructing Volumes examples
      • Last Week: Needing to change my sketchbook
      • Sketching my way through my teacup collection: #1 and #2
    • February 2019
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 5: Measured setup (and some favourite tools for working this way)
      • Last week: Working smaller
      • New cups have led to a change in my palette
      • Sharpening my visual thinking: Foreshortening
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 6: Minimal Setup
      • Last Week: Sketching people every day
      • Should I add colour to my sketch?
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 7: Putting it all together and having a cuppa!
      • Last Week: Am I sketching too much?
      • Best permanent fineliners for ink and wash
      • 2019 Foundations Fridays 8: Balancing line and colour
      • Last week: Teaching pages
      • Update on my Turquoise testing
    • March 2019
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 9: The importance of getting ground-lines right
      • The Rocks Workshop: Watercolour on location
      • Sketching my way through my teacup collection: #3, 4 and 5
      • One Week 100 people is on again: 08 -12 April 2019
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 10: Different Stories - Callanish Stones
      • The impact of a different pen
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 11: Allowing a sketch to evolve
      • Waterbrush vs 'real' brush
      • Filming on location for my new SketchingNow course
    • April 2019
      • More filming days for SketchingNow Watercolour on Location
      • New Moleskine A4 Portrait Format! But I need your advice
      • My strategies for #oneweek100people2019
      • 2019 Foundations Friday 12: Reviewing work and cafe sketching tips
      • Foundations Friday Index
      • Some thoughts before #oneweek100people2019
      • #oneweek100people2019 - Day 1 cafe sketching
      • #oneweek100people2019 - Day 2: Skin Mixes and thoughts on doing challenges
      • Group Run-through for SketchingNow Edges - starting on 17 April
      • #oneweek100people2019 - Hitting 100 on day 3
      • Tips for sketching people in public
      • #oneweek100people2019 - Day 4 and 5: Slowing my pace
      • #oneweek100people2019 - my takeaways
      • A collection of Basilica Palladiana sketches
      • New fountain pen - Opus 88 Fantasia
      • New Watercolours: Aquarius by Roman Szmal
      • Gearing up for 3 months remote working in Europe
      • First thoughts on the A4 portrait format moleskine
      • Filming lots of demos
      • Europe 19: The Plan
    • May 2019
      • Europe19: Passing through Rome
      • Europe19: Palladian Odyssey Prep
      • Palladian Odyssey 2019: First Umbrian Tour
      • Europe19: Mixing Umbrian Stone
      • Palladian Odyssey 2019: Second Umbrian Tour
      • 30x30 Direct watercolour challenge 2019
    • June 2019
      • Palladian Odyssey Tour 2019: Veneto Tour 1
      • Europe19: A week with Monica (Veneto Art Historian)
      • Europe19: At the Six Week Mark
      • The end of an era: A new Lamy Joy
      • Palladian Odyssey Tour 2019: Veneto Tour 2
      • SketchingNow Watercolour : Group Run-Through
      • Europe 19: A day trip to Venice
      • Europe 19: Final day in Vicenza
      • Europe19: Passing through Edinburgh
      • Europe19: Palette Update
    • July 2019
      • Europe19: My 30x30 direct watercolour sketches
      • Europe19: The Isle of Lewis and Harris
      • Sketch Meet in Gouda, Netherlands
      • Europe19: Four nights in Paris
      • Europe19: A quick visit to Barcelona
      • Palladian Odyssey 2020 Veneto Tours now available
      • Europe19: A week in Gouda, Netherlands
    • August 2019
      • Europe19: Back Home!
      • Europe19: Amsterdam sketches
      • Europe19: Caran D'Ache sponsorship for my Amsterdam workshops
      • Europe19: USK Amsterdam Workshop: Dynamic Composition and Storytelling
      • Europe19: Amsterdam Urban Sketchers Symposium 2019
      • Challenges of sketching with watercolour on location
      • Europe19: Utrecht and Edam
      • Minimising my kit
      • Europe19: Reflections from my 3 month trip
      • When to use Lavender?
      • Europe19: Adjusting to back home sketching
      • Palladio Paint-only
    • September 2019
      • Video: Summary of a non-stop sketching day
      • A slow morning
      • SketchingNow adventure: Cockatoo Island
      • Mixing in my palette
      • When I have no time to sketch...
      • Do you do thumbnails when you are out sketching?
      • What's your favourite shadow grey mix?
      • My new yellow teacup - Teacup collection #6 and 7
      • De Atramentis Cartridges
      • My Inktober Plan
      • Fountain Pen Info
    • October 2019
      • New Sketching Architecture workshop in Sydney:28-29 Nov 2019
      • Ink sketches during guided tours
      • iPad sketching with Rob Sketcherman
      • SketchingNow Meetup: Observatory Hill
      • Inktober 2019 - Part 1 (plus USK Sydney at Summer Hill)
      • Brisbane Sketchfest - Part 1
      • Brisbane Sketchfest - Part 2
    • November 2019
      • Inktober 2019 - Part 2
      • Additional Saturday workshop in Vicenza in 2020
      • My new red cup - Teacup collection #8
      • A week break in Port Macquarie
      • Seriously working on my blog - What do you want more of?
      • My approach to sketching architecture
      • How to choose a sketchbook
      • Sketching buildings is so much more than perspective
      • Experimenting with different paper: teacup collection #9-12
      • What graphite pencil do you use?
      • Some Graphite Aquarelle Sketches from my travels
    • December 2019
      • Best type of paper (sketchbook) for quick urban sketching
      • Sketching Buildings in Sydney - Urban Sketching Workshop
      • Review: Etchr Sketchbooks
      • Coffee cups and urban sketching
      • USK Sydney in Chippendale
      • New White Nights New Pastel Watercolours
      • My Pink 'Melbourne' Cup - Teacup Collection #13
      • SketchingNow Gift Cetificates
      • A weekend of sketching: USK Sydney and Benedetta Dossi
      • End of Year City Break: Part 1
      • Sketching Architecture Tips: The Garrison Church
      • End of Year City Break: Part 2
      • Happy Holidays
      • Top Nine 2019
      • Summer Break 2019-2020: Part 1
      • A sketching review of 2019
  • 2020
    • January 2020
      • Sketching Buildings: A 20 minute sketching session
      • Summer Break 2019-2020: Part 2
      • A change in my palette
      • Bushfires and the bush
      • Essential techniques for sketching buildings
      • Sketchbook Review: Nostalgie sketchbook by Hahnemuhle
      • Teacup Collection #14 and 15 - feeling lost without my normal paper
      • Last week: People, food, buildings and my usual cuppas
      • Current Palette - Jan 2020 (with updates)
      • From the Archives: A big change in my Sketchbook No. 15 - 2009
      • Adding borders around my sketches
      • Which sketchbook should I use next?
      • Sktchy 30 Faces 30 Days
    • February 2020
      • More borders and establishing sketching habits
      • Oneweek100people challenge: 9-13 March 2020
      • My sketching diet
      • Sketchbook Review: Kunst & Papier Watercolour book
      • Teacup Collection 16 & 17: More pink?
      • Special Place: Bassano del Grappa
      • Sketchbook Review: Hahnemühle Watercolour Book (Akademie Aquarell)
      • A week of pink teacups (No. 18 -23 in my collection)
      • Sydney Opera House: reviewing recent sketches
      • One Week 100 people 2020 Sydney sketchmeets
      • Perspective and accurate building sketches
    • March 2020
      • Buildings in Watercolour workshop report
      • Oneweek100people2020 Prep: Watercolour skin colour mixes
      • SketchingNow Perspective Basics
      • #oneweek100people2020 prep: Researching facial features
      • Oneweek100people2020 Day 1: My 'wash and ink' technique
      • Oneweek100people2020 Day 2: Having too much fun to focus on sketching
      • Oneweek100people2020 Day 3: Slowing down
      • Oneweek100people: Day 4 and 5
      • Sketching coffee from home
      • #uskathome: The View from my balcony
      • Walkit sketching bags
      • Teacup Collection 24-26
      • Last week: Stay at Home begins
      • Teacup Collection 27: Taking risks
      • Challenge: Get Down Low
      • Last week: Virtual Life
    • April 2020
      • Teacup Collection 28: My SketchingNow Buildings cup
      • More time or less time to sketch?
      • Teacup Collection 29: T2 Peacock teacup
      • 2020 Foundations Fridays 1: Revisiting my watercolour pencils
      • Ten years of USK Symposium Breakthroughs
      • Last Week: Starting my second Stay Home Alpha sketchbook
      • 2020 Foundations Fridays 2: Open-ended continuous line sketches
      • Colours in my palette: A new series
      • Colours in my palette: Yellow
      • Colours in my palette: Red and pink
      • Colours in my palette: Blue
      • 2020 Foundations Fridays 3: Abstracting Shapes in differing light
      • My Europe 2020 trip is on... virtually!
      • Europe 20 Virtual trip begins
      • Europe20V: First two days in Rome
    • May 2020
      • 2020 Foundations Friday 4: How working in volumes is different from edges and shapes
      • Europe20V: A Baroque Day in Rome
      • Europe 20V: The rest of my time in Rome
      • Colours in my palette: Green and turquoise
      • Europe 20V: A week in Umbria
      • Colours in my Palette: Earth colours
      • Last month staying home and lockdown restrictions easing
      • How to include people in your urban sketches
      • Europe 2020V: A Virtual Palladian Odyssey Tour in Umbria
      • 2020 Foundations Friday 5-7: Do you need sight measuring?
      • Europe 2020V: Marostica and a few Palladian villas
    • June 2020
      • Europe 2020V: Palladian Odyssey Virtual Veneto Tour
      • Teacup collection 30-32
      • Last week: Getting out more
      • SketchingNow Thumbnail Challenge
      • 30x30 Direct Watercolour 2022 in 12 days
      • 2020 Foundations Friday 8-12: Urban Sketching Training
      • Six days of sketching thumbnails
      • Colours in my Palette: Neutrals
      • Europe 2020V: Vicenza and the Veneto
      • Europe 2020V: Five days in Venice
      • Colours in My Palette: My extra colours
    • July 2020
      • Europe 2020V: Florence and San Gimignano
      • Getting back to urban sketching around Sydney
      • Has lockdown changed my urban sketching kit?
      • Watercolour On Location - starts this week!
      • Europe 2020V: A weekend in Luxembourg
      • Europe 2020V: Brussels
      • Europe 2020V: Gouda
      • Europe 2020V: Scotland
      • Five Reflections from my 11 week virtual trip to Europe
      • Teacups 33-35: Taking risks
      • Stools and seats for urban sketching
      • How everyday sketching differs from dedicated sketching outings and why it’s often harder!
      • Using grey markers for value studies
      • Europe 2020V: Video flip-through plus my five favourite sketches and pages
      • How upgrading my sketchbook has changed my everyday sketching
    • August 2020
      • Hahnemühle vs Moleskine: My preference and the reasons why
      • Teacups 36-39: Old and new
      • I'm absolutely loving my new sketchbook!
      • A wet afternoon in Hunter's Hill
      • "How can I make my sketches looser?"
      • Live Sketching Architecture demo
      • Lots of tips for sketching classical architecture (Live demo replay)
      • Tree research
      • Review: Global Handbook Travelogue Sketchbook
      • I'm still super inspired to sketch my local area!
      • Teacups 40-43: Three vintage cups and a plastic one
      • I changed my sketchbook again - back to Alpha
      • August 2020 Roundup
    • September 2020
      • I'm starting to work on a new SketchingNow Course
      • Teacup 44: The first and the last of the Royal Albert 100 years set
      • Designing random sketchbook pages
      • Teacups 45-53: Finishing off my collection (almost!)
      • Teacup 54: My most precious cup
      • Saturday's Sketch Outing
      • My Teacup Collection in full
      • Friday night baroque in a new sketchbook
      • A morning on Cockatoo Island
      • SketchChat Session: Dunnottar Castle with progress photos
      • Recent sketches: Bits and pieces
      • September 2020 Roundup
    • October 2020
      • Sketchbook Review: Clairefontane Goldline Natural
      • What am I not using in my kit? (Foundations Lesson 1)
      • 20 years ago: Plans, elevations, sections and axonometrics
      • Port Macquarie Trip Part 1: Using my watercolour pencils
      • Port Macquarie Trip Part 2: Painting with The Eradicator
      • South Coast Trip
      • October 2020 Roundup
    • November 2020
      • Do you add writing to your sketchbook pages?
      • SketchChat Session: Urquhart Castle
      • How is your sketchbook practice?
      • November 2020 sketching
    • December 2020
      • Two doors: Dutch vs Italian
      • Sketchbook Design: Intro Lessons
      • Two favourite sketchbook pages
      • Rosemary Brushes interview
      • Sketchbook Design: Behind the scenes
      • Sketching review of 2020: Learning from what I achieved this year
      • December 2020 Sketching
  • 2021
    • January 2021
      • My 2021 sketching goals
      • A sketching (and filming) outing
      • Documenting my Sketchbook Design filming setup
      • Adding elements to my sketchbook pages
      • For my nephew
      • A little Vanbrugh (and my thoughts while sketching)
      • Birchgrove and Balmain East outing
      • Rosemary Brushes: Red Dot Collection - first impression
      • Australia Day and some other recent pages
      • A few tips for beginners
      • Starting a week of contained compositions and a little FLW
      • January 2021 Sketching
    • February 2021
      • A little Borromini
      • Starting to plan a road trip
      • Another oval building and revisiting work from 2004
      • From contained to open compositions
      • Sketching in the rain (USK Sydney meet)
      • A productive morning of sketching in The Rocks
      • Thinking about my niece and the Isle of Harris
      • What's your favourite fountain pen?
      • Time for a cuppa!
      • Thoughts on the StablO Nomadic Easel
      • Last week's sketches: A lean week?
      • Some London sketches
      • Wrapping up Sketchbook Design
      • Ultramarine Comparisons
      • What do you want to see more of?
      • One Week 100 people is on again: 8-12 March 2021
      • Two castles: Two different approaches (step by step)
      • My Sketchbook Design teacup
      • February Sketching (2021)
    • March 2021
      • Time to give Sap Green a break?
      • Four versions of my pink cup: 2014-2016
      • Current Sketching Kit - March 2021
      • Sketching Gladesville Hospital with Jane (and some fun new pigments)
      • Two days in a row... can I make it three?
      • OneWeek100people 2021: Day 1
      • USK Sydney: A big day of sketching
      • OneWeek100people 2021: Day 2 and 3
      • An hour long sketch...
      • OneWeek100people 2021: Day 4 and 5
      • Revisiting Foundations and Watercolour
      • Watercolour faces and some people sketching articles
      • Using my watercolour pencils again
      • A sunny teacup for a wet day
      • Testing Aquarius Watercolours
      • Researching Warragamba Dam
      • Aquarius test sketches
      • Sydney CBD weekday outing
      • Making it look easy: A SneakyArtist Podcast interview
      • Revisiting my coloured ink collection
      • March Sketching
    • April 2021
      • An easy way to use two different coloured inks in a sketch
      • Drawing Maps
      • A little Australian Architecture with a Palladian reference
      • Recent Sketches: Changing where I place my text blocks
      • Prep for my NSW/VIC Road trip begins!
      • Reviving an old Trip Prep tradition
      • Trip Prep: My reading list
      • Sketchbook Strategies Part 1: Reviewing 2019 travel sketchbooks
      • Sketchbook Strategies Part 2: The plan and a few goals
      • RoadTrip2021: The journey begins in the Blue Mountains
      • Sketching flowers at 1am
      • RoadTrip2021: More Blue Mountains sketching
      • RoadTrip2021: Hartley and Lithgow
      • RoadTrip2021: Tarana, O'Connell and the Fish River
      • RoadTrip2021: Oberon and Mayfield Garden
      • RoadTrip2021: Bathurst and a sheep farm
      • RoadTrip2021: Gold rush towns - Wattle Flat, Sofala and Hill End
    • May 2021
      • RoadTrip2021: Mudgee and surrounds
      • RoadTrip2021: Gulgong
      • RoadTrip2021: Dubbo, Peak Hill, Narromine and Wellington
      • RoadTrip2021: Orange and more historic towns
      • RoadTrip2021: Canowindra, Cowra and Grenfell
      • RoadTrip2021: Along the Newell Highway
      • RoadTrip2021: Temora, Junee and Wagga Wagga
      • RoadTrip2021: Lockhart, Narrandera and Griffith (a taste of Italy)
      • RoadTrip2021: Half a day in Hay and a historic bridge
      • RoadTrip21: Mungo National Park and Balranald
      • RoadTrip21: Mildura, the Murray River and Big Lizzie
      • RoadTrip2021: My big driving day along the Murray
      • RoadTrip2021: Bendigo, Rochester and Echuca
      • RoadTrip2021: Beechworth and Yackandandah
      • RoadTrip2021: Albury, Gundagai and Yass
    • June 2021
      • RoadTrip2021: A few days in Canberra
      • RoadTrip2021: Goulburn, Berrima and back home!
      • Edges Group Run-through including 8 weekly livestreams
      • RoadTrip2021: Back Home Reviews
      • RoadTrip2021: Reflections on my 6 week adventure
      • 30x30 Direct watercolour 2021: The first week
      • RoadTrip2021: My JimmyB collection
      • A JimmyB sketch outing
      • Thinking about edges while sketching a teacup
      • Using my sketchbook to get organised!
      • Sketching details in The Rocks and a step-by-step JimmyB
      • Windows and other details
      • Thoughts on my everyday sketching after my big road trip
      • Sketching mangroves at Echo Point
      • New Art Toolkit palettes including Greenleaf & Blueberry Paints
    • July 2021
      • 30x30 Direct watercolour 2021: The rest
      • June 2021 Roundup (and some more new art supplies to test out)
      • Lockdown teacups
      • Identifying plants and using a waterbrush
      • How Sketchbook Design (the course) changed the design of my sketchbook pages
      • Lockdown Teacups: A Royal Albert week
      • Another lockdown project: Sketching through Palladio's villas in order
      • Lockdown Teacups: A week of T2 teacups
      • A simple page that feels good
      • Sketching my workspace
      • Varying Line Weights (and colour)
      • Lots of everyday sketching!
      • Another week of lockdown teacups
      • Virtual Brussels sketching
      • Palladio's Villas Week 2: From farm buildings to Baroque mansions
      • Changes to my 'extras' palette
      • Early morning flowers and a flip-though of Sketchbook 146
    • August 2021
      • A varied week of lockdown teacups
      • Yellow Ochre vs Raw Sienna
      • Palladio's Villas Week 3: Some favourites in new colours as well as lost and found edges
      • A video of a typical sketching outing (and finishing my pages)
      • Davidson Park looking at trees and a Folio update
      • Recent Everyday pages: Lots of experimenting and a visit to Lane Cove National Park
      • Teacup Gifts... and a question for you
      • Sketchbook Index: Sizes, formats and brands that I've used over the years
      • Lockdown Teacups: A week of Old Country Roses
      • Palladio's Villas Weeks 4-5: A few progress photos and some early work
      • Davidson park (again) and some wattle
      • What brushes am I using at the moment? (2021 update)
      • Lockdown Teacups: An easy week with a little houndstooth obsession
      • Palladio's Villas Week 6 & 7: The rest!
      • MyLGA2021: A two-week break and two new sketchbooks
    • September 2021
      • Reflex sketching with Paul Wang
      • MyLGA2021: A quick update - forests, grand houses and working in two sketchbooks
      • What coloured pencils do you use... and why?
      • Castle sketching with a little pre-painting
      • MyLGA2021: Obsessed with blue gums
      • Mixing grey greens and an update on my Folio palette
      • Free Buildings Intro Lessons
      • MIxing coloured pencils with watercolour
      • Reflections from MyLGA2021 Staycation
      • MyLGA2021 Sketches Part 1: The first week - Exploring
      • MyLGA2021 Sketches Part 2: The second week - Focusing
      • My LGA2021 Sketches Part 3: My Greenwood Journal
      • Non-stop sketching and Palladian Villas: A School of Sketching Interview
      • 'Back Home' sketching after my staycation
      • Using Copic markers in my Greenwood Journal
      • Sketching Buildings: Volumes and Windows
      • Lockdown Teacups: Catchup (Teacups 60-92)
    • October 2021
      • Palladio's Venice churches and thoughts on looseness vs accuracy
      • Last week's Greenwood sketches with some progress photos
      • SketchingNow Buildings: Live Demo and Q&A session
      • Something different... Gamma and sepia
      • Australian Natives Identification: Collection 1
      • Palladian Urban Buildings - Another chronological project
      • Deep Deep Light Watercolours
      • My favourite green watercolour pencils
      • 106 lockdown teacups
      • Sketching Architecture on location again
      • From sepia to black, gamma to alpha and trees to buildings
      • New support board and sketching bags
      • From local churches to cathedrals
    • November 2021
      • Eight weeks of weekday visits to Lane Cove
      • Old Country Roses again?
      • Sketching Buildings: Learning to see volumes and parallel/horizontal lines
      • A little Frank Lloyd Wright
      • Peppermint and Turpentine - a step by step of a bush sketch
      • My current pencil and marker selections
      • Different types of roofs
      • Banksia research and sketching
      • Becoming an Artist Entrepreneur with Cecilia from Walkit
      • A week of Baroque buildings
      • A little perspective fun
      • Last week's visits to Lane Cove National Park
    • December 2021
      • A sketching outing to the city
      • My Baroque fortnight
      • Foundations Live Demo/Q&A Session this week!
      • Greenwood Journal Volume 2
      • Foundations Colours in a Micro Palette
      • Schmincke French Ultramarine Colour Shift
      • My Esterbrook Estie
      • Rookwood Cemetery visit and some early work
      • Summer21-22: My Break begins
      • Summer21-22: Playgrounds, Persian cakes and more JimmyB
      • Summer21-22: Xmas weekend and new brushes
      • Faber Castell products including watercolour markers
      • What aspect of your art do you want to work on in 2022?
      • A sketching review of 2021
  • 2022
    • January 2022
      • Summer21-22: Starting to use a big spiral Alpha
      • Foundations Teacup Mark 2
      • Foundations2022: Six-colour palette mixing
      • My 2022 sketching goals
      • A little watercolour pencil
      • More six-colour mixing
      • A short visit to Cockatoo Island
      • Foundations2022: A week of continuous line drawings
      • New project: Sketching my teapots
      • Removing Sap Green from my palette
      • Recent sketching outings - with some progress photos
      • Foundations2022: A week of abstracting shapes
      • Teapot sketches from the middle of a workday
      • Finishing my Big Spiral Alpha book [Video]
    • February 2022
      • Foundations 2022: A week of Constructing Volumes
      • Lands Department and an inflatable tiger
      • USK Sydney meet at Cockatoo Island in crazy weather
      • A new favourite teapot (to sketch)
      • Lands Department Sketch - step by step
      • 100 visits to Lane Cove National Park
      • Foundations 2022: Sight Measuring, using pencil for setup lines and drawing ellipses
      • One Week 100 People 2022 (with optional scavenger hunt)
      • Even more 6 colour mixing
      • The new Lindfield Village Green
      • Foundations 2022: Borromini Bear makes an appearance
      • Walk-through video of Sketchbook No. 156
      • Tips for sketching windows and glass
    • March 2022
      • Recent teacups and teapots with associated thoughts
      • OneWeek100People next week - my prep and some tips
      • #OneWeek100People2022: Day 1
      • #OneWeek100People2022: Day 2 and 3 - More Cafe sketching
      • #OneWeek100People2022 - Hitting 100 x3!
      • Lane Cove National Park sketches in a landscape spiral book
      • Another JimmyB building step-by-step
      • When do you sketch?
      • Manganese Blue Hue Mixing
      • Foundations cup and saucers
      • My Entire Teapot Collection - in coloured pencils
      • Last week: Varied subject matter
      • Finishing Foundations
    • April 2022
      • Masking tape for watercolour painting
      • Last week: Time for a new routine?
      • Cabbage Palms and Sydney Icons
      • Switching to coloured pencils
      • Last week: Old scenes feeling new
      • Complex Scenes and Coloured Pencils
      • A little break
      • My Coloured Pencil Journey so far
      • Two weeks of coloured pencil sketching
      • Milson's Point and Cumberland State Forest
    • May 2022
      • Best pencil sharpeners?
      • Coloured Pencil Teacups
      • Finishing my Coloured Pencil Sketchbook
      • Watercolour is back!
      • First few days in Newcastle
      • Lots of sketching in Newcastle
      • Catherine Hill Bay and Blackbutt Nature Reserve
      • Three sketches of the Hunter River
      • Paterson and Morpeth
      • Live Version of Watercolour - starting 8 June
      • Maitland and East Maitland
      • 30x30 Direct Watercolour challenge this year
    • June 2022
      • New watercolour palettes
      • Watery, juicy and pasty washes
      • Reflections from my Hunter2022 trip
      • 30x30: The first few direct watercolour Baroque facades
      • Lane Cove tree chopped down and thinking about watercolour
      • Recent sketches: Local experiments
      • 30x30 2022 Week 2: Colour and brush explorations
      • New Permanent Fountain Pen Ink by Dr. Ph. Martin's
      • My new fad: An extended point brush
      • 30x30 2022: Week 3 of Baroque buildings (with step-by-step photos)
      • 30x30 2022: Mid-month crisis
      • Additional brands of Potter's Pink
      • Exploring different colour schemes for the bush
      • Sketchbook Tours: Spiral vs Bound, Horizontal vs Vertical [Video]
    • July 2022
      • 30x30 2022: Finishing the month strong!
      • Why I don't rely on feeling inspired in order to sketch
      • A week of pigment parties!
      • How has my Looseness changed in a decade?
      • Revisiting an old favourite paint colour...
      • Recent Sketches: A quiet sketching week in an A4 book
      • My happy place (and a question)
      • Payne's Gray?
      • Recent Sketches: A full week
      • Coloured pencils and watercolour combos: Greens
      • Updated 'Travel Sketching Trips' page
      • Recent Teacups: Coloured pencils and watercolour
      • My takeaways from the Live Version of Watercolour
    • August 2022
      • Working with Faber Castell and testing new products
      • Recent Sketches: More of the same but I'm not bored!
      • Flinders Street Station - Step by step
      • A little Australian Architecture in watercolour markers
      • Recent Sketches: Another break from watercolour?
      • Watercolour Marker mixing
      • #Colour4LifeWorkshop (and livestream)
      • Last Week: New tools and new ideas
      • Reflex sketching while catching up with friends
      • A few new pens
      • A week of Pitt Artist Pens
      • My current Faber Castell Selections
    • September 2022
      • In Newcastle (with pencils and markers)
      • Kurri Kurri: The big kookaburra and two big pubs
      • Watercolour Marker Skies
      • Watercolour (On Location) is back!
      • Recent Sketches: The rest of my marker experiments (with a little WCP)
      • Reviewing my work and a public livestream next week
      • Sketching standing up (and with new tools)
      • Watercolour On Location Livestream Replay
      • Making adjustments when sketching on location
      • Seven sketches showing ways to interpret complex scenes
      • A new teacup (and teapot) project
      • Recent sketches: Two quiet weeks and some tonic sol-fa
    • October 2022
      • Doing the Watercolour On Location Thumbnail Challenge again
      • Experiments with GoldFaber Aqua Markers and Watercolour
      • How often do you go out sketching in the rain?
      • Current Sketching Kit - October 2022
      • Magenta SOH
      • Teaching a workshop for Interior Designers and Architects
      • 2-colour studies with my new pens
      • New fad: Lavender Light
      • A free architectural sketching workshop event!
      • The importance of considering story, values and composition when urban sketching
      • Three weeks of continued experimentation
      • New Aquarius Urban Sketching Palette
      • Cobalt Blue: Exploring different brands and shadow mixes
    • November 2022
      • Coloured pencils are back
      • In the mood for sketching some complex buildings
      • Kakimori nib with watercolour 'ink'
      • A little break
      • PMQ22 Part 1: Setting a few goals
      • PMQ22 Part 2: Two Solo days
      • PMQ22 Part 3: Two Social Days
      • SketchingNow giveaway and a 10-year anniversary
      • PMQ22 Part 4: More beaches and cafes
      • Recent Sketches: My base rate of sketching
      • More teacups matching my green teapot
    • December 2022
      • PMQ22: Beach sketch collection
      • PMQ22: Cafe sketch collection
      • PMQ22: Five Reflections from my trip to Port Macquarie
      • Four more Royal Albert teacup sketches
      • Interesting sketchbook pages from this year
      • Two Outings to the City
      • Time to change teapots
      • Finding time to sketch during the crazy part of the year
      • A short stay in the Blue Mountains
      • And the winner is...
      • Review of my 2022 sketching
      • My 2023 Sketching Goals
  • 2023
    • January 2023
      • BlueMtns2022: Two big days
      • Sketchbook Design Top Tips: Placement and White Space
      • BlueMtns2022: Back to watercolour pencils!
      • Working through Melanie Chadwick's Winter Drawing Prompts
      • Can't stop using coloured pencils
      • Recent Sketchbook Pages: Varying colours and layouts
      • Starting with marker shapes
      • Way too much stuff!
      • Starting a new sketch & walk routine
      • Fun colours on a drab day
      • More colour experiments, adding elements and creating contained compositions
      • PleinAir magazine article on Urban Sketching
      • My current sketching bag
    • February 2023
      • Coloured pencils: perfect for quick sketches on location
      • My secondary (sketching) bag
      • Recent Sketches: From contained to open compositions
      • Live Sketchbook Tour - Replay
      • Do I have any teacups that match my Zanzibar teapot?
      • Expressive Lines with different pens
      • A short outing to the city
      • The OneWeek100People challenge is on again!
      • A watery SOH
      • Why I don't use much Buff Titanium - and my favourite 'building' mixes
      • The most complicated building in Sydney?
      • Starting my day with simple shapes, generous washes and a little watercolour magic
    • March 2023
      • Thinking about values when sketching with watercolour
      • The importance of watery washes and some favourite green mixes
      • Starting OneWeek100people at home
      • OneWeek100People2023 - a steady pace
      • Recent sketches and another sketchbook finished!
      • Sketchbook Tour Replay and some watercolour tips
      • I'm working on a new course!
      • Colourful experiments while sketching a few important Sydney buildings
      • Recent coloured pencil sketches on toned (or cream) paper
      • When you don't have the time or energy to sketch a complex scene...

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