When the summer weather started I stopped sketching locally as my usual spots were all in the sun! So instead I’ve been spending many of my afternoons inside my local cafe, sketching my coffee or the view and getting a lot of work done (I’m always super productive when I work in a cafe!) With...
CONTINUE READINGToday I had a lovely catch-up with my great sketching friend Jane Blundell. We headed to Gladesville Hospital (originally known as Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum – it closed in 1993) for a few hours. After a little wander around we found a lovely shading spot to sit and sketch (and chat non-stop!) There are a...
CONTINUE READINGAs it’s over two years since I last took a photo of my sketching kit (the tools that I carry in my bag everywhere) I thought it was time to do an update. Conceptually it has changed very little since Dec 2018 but I’ll explain any differences in the following list. Paints A mix of...
CONTINUE READINGMost mornings I spend at least 30 minutes going through old blogposts – updating the images because they were originally embedded from Flickr or still hosted on blogspot. It’s a massive project, but one that I absolutely love doing! Today I was working through a few posts from 2016 and came across this sketch of...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve been saying for a long time that I’m not totally happy with Sap Green (Daniel Smith). It’s doing the job but the hue is not quite right and I’m not a fan of its aggressive dispersiveness. I explained more about my thoughts in my article last year as part of my ‘Colours in my...
CONTINUE READINGWell, February was a very full month here on the blog and I managed to stick to my resolution to publish five new articles a week. As mentioned previously, regular posting is a great way for me to get my creative juices flowing, and this has certainly been the case in the last month or...
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