In the last few weeks I’ve been re-reading a great architectural history book – The Cathedrals of England by Alec Clifton-Taylor. Before I became a sketcher I used to spend a lot of my free time reading architectural history/ theory books as research for future travels. I bought and read this book in 2000 in...
CONTINUE READINGI’m excited to announce that I’ll be hosting a Live Sketchbook Tour this week where I will share all the sketches I did during my recent road trip through country New South Wales. I had such a great time sketching lots of lovely historic town street scenes and I’m looking forward to going through the...
CONTINUE READINGThe other day I sat down on a ledge of the Queen Victoria statue in Sydney and proceeded to do a fun detailed sketch of the magnificent Queen Victoria Building (QVB). I’ve been wanting to sketch from this spot for ages… but this particular ledge is normally occupied. I’ve sketched QVB a number of times...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s time to wrap up my series of articles on my recent road trip with my typical Reflections post. So without any further ado here they are… 1. A good model for a sketching trip There is no doubt that there is something exciting about a traditional road trip – moving from place to...
CONTINUE READINGI made three stops on the 3.5-hour drive home – two of these were cafes. I had breakfast at Ironbark in Blayney and lunch at Hounslow in Blackheath. And in between these two cafe visits I popped into Govettt’s Leap. This lookout was closed last December when I was in the Blue Mountains for...
CONTINUE READINGOn the last full day of my road trip I headed to a very special country town – Canowindra. For starters, it has a cool name! It is not pronounced Cano-windra which would be the logical way to say it. Instead, it is Ca-nowin-dra. And the ‘nowin’ part is like ‘noun’. But most importantly it...
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