Yesterday I sat down and went through the sketchbooks which I completed in 2020 – all 24 of them! This is an annual ritual and it’s always an incredible experience. But this year it was especially powerful. 2020 has been such a crazy year and there is much which I could write about it, but...
CONTINUE READINGYesterday I almost finished filming my upcoming course – just one outside demo to go! I started filming six weeks ago and although I’ve spaced out my filming sessions, it’s been a huge job. Mainly because I have been doing all the filming myself and because I’ve been using lots and lots of examples from...
CONTINUE READINGI feel very honoured to have been a guest on the Rosemary & Co show: Artist’s Spotlight. It was wonderful to chat with Symi who I haven’t seen since the Urban Sketchers Symposium Chicago. We cover a lot of ground during the conversion and at the end we explain a fun giveaway that we are...
CONTINUE READINGDo you have any sketchbook pages which stand out as favourites? I have many… but it’s funny that the ones which come to mind first are these two from 2010 and 2011. Whilst both of these pages are colourful and contain interesting compositions, I considered both ‘failures’ whilst in the midst of creating them. So...
CONTINUE READINGMy posting here on the blog is going to be a little random for the next few weeks as I finish filming my upcoming course – Sketchbook Design – and get everything ready to open up for enrollment… doors will be opening next week! It’s all happening! 🙂 Last night I released the first...
CONTINUE READINGLast week during a livestream for my Foundations course I showed photos of two doors – one Dutch (in Amsterdam) and one Italian (in Lucca). I then asked the group which one would they prefer to draw and/or which one did they think would be easier to draw. There was not necessarily a right answer...
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