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Watercolour On Location - starts this week!

July 6, 2020 | Leave your thoughts
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If 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...

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Has lockdown changed my urban sketching kit?

July 3, 2020 | 9 Comments
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So 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...

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Getting back to urban sketching around Sydney

July 2, 2020 | 3 Comments
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Here 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...

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Europe 2020V: Florence and San Gimignano

July 1, 2020 | Leave your thoughts
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After 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...

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Colours in My Palette: My extra colours

June 30, 2020 | 2 Comments
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Okay… 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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Europe 2020V: Five days in Venice

June 29, 2020 | Leave your thoughts
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I wasn’t expecting to have any time in Venice this year as Mike Botton and I had intended to spend two weeks planning the third Palladian Odyssey tour in a different part of Italy. Doing a virtual version of our “PO reccy trip” (reconnaissance trip) would have been too much work, so I decided to...

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