On Saturday I went into the city for a solo sketching adventure. It felt great to be out walking and sketching in the heart of Sydney once again. I had been thinking about doing this for a while but something always came up to prevent it. However this week in the Group Run-through of Watercolour...
CONTINUE READINGWell… here it is. The last teacup in my collection – the oldest and most special one! I think that it’s about 130 years old as it belonged to my great great grandmother and it was given to me in 2003 by my very special great aunt – Aunty Ruby. If there is anyone reading...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s a little hard to define clearly how many teacups I have in my collection. But basically I am counting all the cups and saucers that I own which I have drunk tea out of. I’m not counting the cup and saucers that I use for my morning coffees even though these are technically referred...
CONTINUE READINGI’m continuing to love using the 8×10 softcover Alpha by Stillman & Birn. The size and portrait format gives me lots of compositional options and I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with layouts in the last few weeks. I draw random objects on my page during the day and then try to tie the...
CONTINUE READINGThis is the 1900s Blue Regency cup as part of my Royal Albert 100 years set. This set of 10 cups – one for each decade 1900s-1990s – celebrates the 100 year anniversary of Royal Albert. So this is the first cup in the set, and it’s also the last cup that I have sketched...
CONTINUE READINGBig news! I’m gearing up for my next online course… SketchingNow Sketchbook Design create a unique visual narrative of your life Over the years I have gotten lots of requests for a course about how I design my sketchbook pages and so I’m super excited to be finally getting a chance to work on it....
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