After 8 weeks sketching in Italy as part of my Virtual European trip, I headed somewhere new… Luxembourg. This is the first destination on this trip which I hadn’t previously visited so it was the first time I was completely dependent on Google street view for reference photos. I spent a number of hours exploring...
CONTINUE READINGIf somehow you have missed it, my latest SketchingNow course, Watercolour On Location has returned! Watercolour On Location is my biggest course. It contains the most on location demos (we had two full days of filming outside in addition to two indoor filming days). It also contains many ‘next level’ concepts which rarely get...
CONTINUE READINGSo I’ve been slowly getting back to regular urban sketching and it’s interesting how much of an impact our lockdown period and social distancing requirements has had on my habits and my urban sketching kit! For starters… when the lockdown started I emptied my blue Hedgren bag and set up my kit for table use.To...
CONTINUE READINGHere in Sydney we’ve been able to sketch out on location since the middle of May (when the restrictions lifted and allowed us to go outside for recreational purposes). But until yesterday I had not left my neighbourhood for the specific reason of doing some sketching. The last time that happened was Friday 13 March...
CONTINUE READINGAfter four weeks based in the Veneto region of Italy (as part of my Virtual trip) it was time to head south. As mentioned in my previous article, this part of the trip is not what I had planned to do, and so to make life easy for myself, I decided to head straight to...
CONTINUE READINGOkay… one final article in this series! This mini palette (a small plastic container) holds a few extra colours that I carry around with me. This ‘Extras Palette’ has two purposes: It contains a few colours that I occasionally want to use or want to test It acts as an emergency palette if I happen...
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