I know that I haven’t been sharing my everyday sketching much lately… but it’s still going on in the background. I’m continuing to go out for a morning walk, coffee and sketch, and I’m still drawing my local Village Green over and over. I’m also continuing to use my Village Green work for experimentation and...
CONTINUE READINGEvery few months I have a ‘zoom’ catchup with my friend Françoise from Belgium. As we talk we always sketch from a photo of recent adventures or travels. As Frannie has traveled much more than me this year, we normally do a European sketch. But this time she wanted to sketch from a Canowindra photo...
CONTINUE READINGThe other week I was in the City to do some sketching and realised I didn’t have a graphite pencil in my kit. So I headed to Kinokunyia and found a very cool simple mechanical pencil by Kokuyo – Enpitsu sharp mechanical pencil with a 1.3mm lead. (Some of you might have noticed me using...
CONTINUE READINGA few weeks ago I had a lovely catch-up with two sketching friends from Singapore – Lynnette and Sha-Ron. We all started sketching the view of the Old Clare Hotel (in Chippendale) from the other side of the narrow Kensington St – sitting in the shade on a warm spring day. But sadly the shade...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the things that I love about doing a group event inside my Buildings course is the Building of the Week challenge. Each week I sketch a new ‘hard’ building – choosing from a list of suggestions from the group. Last week someone mentioned buildings with domes and so I started doing a little...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I shared a step-by-step showing how I used some of the concepts from my Buildings course for sketching the complex Queen Victoria Building. In this article, I want to share how these concepts help when sketching simple buildings as well. On this occasion, I used a photo of a cottage from Carcoar (a...
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