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...
CONTINUE READINGI have almost 4 weeks worth of sketching from my virtual trip to catch up on! So today I will share my additional week hanging out in the Veneto regions, based in Vicenza. If you haven’t seen my earlier articles, I’m roughly going through the itinerary which I had planned for this year’s 11 week...
CONTINUE READINGHere is the last installment in my Colours in My Palette series: Neutrals. I have delayed posting this as I have been testing an alternative to one of the colours – but more of that shortly. My neutral section contains two paints – Daniel Smith Buff Titanium and my own pre-mixed Steel’s Grey. Buff...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I hosted a special SketchingNow Thumbnail Challenge as part of the lead up to the return of Watercolour On Location. I shared some Free Intro Lessons (as per last year) plus some new demos all about thumbnails, and then I committed to drawing a number of thumbnails for the week. The first three...
CONTINUE READINGWe are just coming to the end of a Group Run-through for my SketchingNow Foundations course. As always, there has been a wonderful group going through the lessons – doing great work and supporting each other in the classroom. In the second half of the course we look at some essential techniques and concepts for...
CONTINUE READINGI’m normally traveling in Europe during June and so the 30×30 Direct Watercolour challenge in previous years has been pretty easy for me to achieve. But this year being home I wasn’t sure how I would go as it’s normally hard to find time for ‘decent sketching’ when I have a heavy workload. My Virtual...
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