This article was supposed to be a roundup of my posts this month, but it’s been extremely quiet here over the past few weeks. That’s because I’ve been almost completely focused on preparing and filming my next course – Sketchbook Design. It has been taking up more time than I expected because: It’s brand new...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve had my head down all week getting ready to start filming my next course – Sketchbook Design. And as a result, I’ve been thinking a lot about some big ideas related to keeping a sketchbook! I really loved reading all your comments last week about adding text to your sketchbook pages! A huge thanks...
CONTINUE READINGEarly morning catchup and zoom sketching session with @esthersemm last week continuing on our theme of sketching Scottish Castles together! This time it was Urquhart Castle on the shores of Loch Ness just south of Inverness. Last time I was there, Esther was with me and we only had 20 minutes to sketch this view....
CONTINUE READINGI’m just about to start filming my next SketchingNow course – Sketchbook Design – and I’m thinking a lot about the role of blocks of text on my pages. It’s really important to me that my sketchbooks contain a combination of words and images but I know that that is not the case for everyone. So...
CONTINUE READINGOctober was quiet here on the blog thanks to a much needed 2 week break! So the theme of travel sketching is the main one this month. Travel Sketching I spent two weeks sketching beaches and trying different techniques: Using my watercolour pencils at Port Macquarie Creating texture with my Eradicator Brush (also at Port...
CONTINUE READINGFor the second week of my break I headed to the South Coast (based at Culburra Beach) with my parents. We don’t know the South Coast very well so we did a fair bit of exploring. It was a bit of a novelty for me to be travelling with other people – normally I’m on...
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