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...
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...
CONTINUE READINGI 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...
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