Now that Lesson 4 of Sketchbook Design has gone live, I want to share all sketches from my little self- filming outing a few weeks ago. I shared some progress photos previously, but here are the finished pages. I had a number of insights into my process during this sketching session. For many years I’ve...
CONTINUE READINGOn Saturday I was very happy to attend the monthly meet of Urban Sketchers Sydney at Woolwich Dock. For various reasons I’ve not been able to attend any of the meets since March last year, so the forecast of rain didn’t bother me in the least. I arrived early to do a warmup sketch of...
CONTINUE READINGWe’re now into Lesson 3 of my Sketchbook Design course and we’re exploring open compositions – overlapping, and extending, placing elements randomly and more. This is more my style than last week where I was trying to contain everything. I struggled a little at the beginning of the week to keep each sketch/element separate. But...
CONTINUE READINGThanks to Alison’s comment on my recent San Carlo sketch I did a little research on Bernini’s Sant Andrea al Quirinale. It’s amazing that these two Baroque oval churches by rivals Borromini and Bernini are so close to each other – located on the same road. In 2019 when I was in Rome prior to...
CONTINUE READINGThis year I’m hoping to go on a big trip exploring my state – New South Wales. As I normally head north along the coast, I want to go west and south this time. I’m not sure I will make it to Broken Hill… but you never know! I would dearly love to include ACT,...
CONTINUE READINGFollowing on from a little Vanbrugh and a little Frank Lloyd Wright I did recently, here is a page I did for Sketchbook Design (Demo in Lesson 3) documenting my favourite building by Borromini (Francesco Borromini, architect in Rome, 1599-1667) – San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (San Carlino). I have sketched this building on location...
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