I’m now at the end of my second week staying at home and although I have only had 3 face to face conversations with people, it’s been an extremely social time. Between all the phonecalls, Skype chats and livestreams, I feel more connected with some people than ever! It’s sad not to be around people,...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I had an inspiring chat with Rob Sketcherman during an Instagram live. We talked about a lot of things including trying to find inspiration and creating stories about views of our home through our sketches. At the end of the chat I asked Rob to give us a sketching challenge and it was:...
CONTINUE READINGAs I’ve been sketching through my teacup collection there has been a voice in my head telling me that I need to do a ‘good sketch’ of each cup. As a result I’ve often found myself waiting until I was in the right mood, or had enough time, to sketch the current cup. So today...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I decided to stay home even though everything was still open here in Sydney (a lockdown started at noon today). As I work from home this wasn’t a big deal, although it did feel strange not to go to a local cafe or the gym. Earlier in the week I struggled to get...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s time to catch up on my teacup sketches from the last few weeks. I hope to get back into sketching them more regularly, but right at the moment there is a lot of things happening in the background and I don’t feel as if I have a lot of sketching time. I’m including the...
CONTINUE READINGEarly last year my urban sketcher friend Cecilia Simonyi from Hungary asked me to test a prototype for a sketching bag and was it great to see her selling the final product at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Amsterdam in July. I wasn’t able to review the final version at the time, so Cecilia kindly...
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