Here 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...
CONTINUE READINGAs part of the lead up to the return of my SketchingNow Watercolour On Location course, I’m sharing a number of free intro lessons which explain the main concepts of the course. These intro lessons contain some exercises to help us sharpen some essential drawing and painting skills. But in addition to the original exercises...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I had a scheduled break from posting. I’m transitioning between a number of projects that overlap (no break between projects, just as in my days as an architect!) and it was nice to actually have a long weekend with no work. It turned out that pausing my posts was a good thing to...
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