A few weeks ago I had a lovely catch-up with two sketching friends from Singapore – Lynnette and Sha-Ron. We all started sketching the view of the Old Clare Hotel (in Chippendale) from the other side of the narrow Kensington St – sitting in the shade on a warm spring day. But sadly the shade...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the things that I love about doing a group event inside my Buildings course is the Building of the Week challenge. Each week I sketch a new ‘hard’ building – choosing from a list of suggestions from the group. Last week someone mentioned buildings with domes and so I started doing a little...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I shared a step-by-step showing how I used some of the concepts from my Buildings course for sketching the complex Queen Victoria Building. In this article, I want to share how these concepts help when sketching simple buildings as well. On this occasion, I used a photo of a cottage from Carcoar (a...
CONTINUE READINGHere are two simple sketches of a terrace house in Balmain that I drew for a Foundations Livestream a few months ago. On these pages, you can see how I relied on seeing shapes and measuring a few edges. I didn’t use any perspective at all but simply used ‘feeling edges’ and ‘abstracting shapes’...
CONTINUE READINGFor many years I have almost exclusively drawn in ink. Although I’ve been very much aware of what a great sketching tool a simple graphite pencil is, I’ve never really used it. The main reason is that I don’t like smudges on my page. However in the last month or so, thanks to the inclusion...
CONTINUE READINGIn the last few weeks I’ve been re-reading a great architectural history book – The Cathedrals of England by Alec Clifton-Taylor. Before I became a sketcher I used to spend a lot of my free time reading architectural history/ theory books as research for future travels. I bought and read this book in 2000 in...
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