September seems to have flown by so it is really good to pause and review what I did during the month. Teacups I’m so happy to finally finish my big project of sketching through my entire teacup collection – including a few cracked/broken ones. I started it in Jan 2019 and 54 teacups later the...
CONTINUE READINGI’m doing a fair amount of sketching at the moment so there seems to be a lot to catch up on since my last article of everyday sketches. This article covers the last few weeks of work and includes two sketchbooks – 8×10 Stillman and Birn Alpha softcover and Goldline Natural Sketchbook (180gsm). Both books...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the good things to come out of this pandemic is that I’m keeping in touch with some friends more than normal and Esther Semmens in Edinburgh is one of them. If you don’t know her, Esther is the friend that started me sketching with watercolour back in 2007 and amazingly, we’ve managed...
CONTINUE READINGThis morning I headed out to Cockatoo Island for a few hours of sketching. It was a gorgeous warm morning (forecast of 30C) and it felt so good to be out on the harbour again! The purpose of the visit was to go on a sketching outing – part of Lesson 5 of Watercolour On...
CONTINUE READINGHow many of you remember the old days of Friday night Baroque? When I used to work as an architect I often ‘relaxed’ at the end of a busy week by doing a crazy quick sketch of a fancy Baroque building. Tonight I felt in the mood to revive the old tradition…. so here is...
CONTINUE READINGSo here it is… my entire teacup collection in full. This was such a fun project and it’s been great to use all my cups and to do a little research about each. I also created a little schedule for myself to document them all and it helped me determine a few fun stats. Most...
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