As 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...
CONTINUE READINGA few day’s late… here is my contribution to the Virtual Sketchmeet hosted by USKMilano on 14 March. The theme was “What we see outside the window” and the hashtag is #uskathome This is the most interesting view out of my windows and I actually sat on my tiny balcony to sketch it. So technically...
CONTINUE READINGHere is a home coffee sketch from Saturday – something that I’ll be doing more of in the coming weeks. We are not in lock down (yet) here in Sydney, but I’ve decided to stop all non-essential outings. This was from my last scheduled outing this morning. It’s hard not to think about COVID...
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