My #oneweek100people2020 prep is well and truly underway now as it’s only a few days until the challenge begins. I’ve started a new book – another Kunst and Papier sketchbook – and I’m filling up the first few spreads with doing some research on facial features and sketching what I find. I chose this sketchbook...
CONTINUE READINGA few weeks ago I released a lesson on perspective into my SketchingNow Buildings course. This lesson summarised the essential techniques for using perspective when sketching and I shared a number demos showing how I apply these concepts in real life examples. Here is a brief overview of the lesson. Perspective challenges I’m an...
CONTINUE READINGThe OneWeek100People challenge is next week and so it’s time to top up my palette and work out what I’m going to do about my skin colour mixes. Last year I made up some special skin tone paint out of some spare paint (a random combo of Daniel Smith paints: Yellow Ochre, Minnesota Pipestone Genuine...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I ran a 3 day Buildings In Watercolour workshop. It’s the first time I have offered a local workshop over 3 days and it was really great to expand my usual 2 day Sketching Architecture programme so that I could include more about watercolour and have a few more different locations to sketch....
CONTINUE READINGIn recent years my sketching has become looser and more expressive as I try to say more with less. I’m always seeking to work in a way so that my art just flows out of me – almost effortlessly. This way of working actually requires a lot of thinking, as I aim to strike a...
CONTINUE READINGI’m excited to announce a few sketchmeets during this year’s One Week 100 people challenge. The main sketchmeet is on Friday evening 13 March Meet at Town Hall Steps at 5pm. We will sketch people in the area until 6.20 when we’ll meet back at the steps for a quick ‘throwdown’ to see what...
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