I’m working my way slowly through all my old blogposts – updating posts, re-uploading images (and often re-scanning the originals), changing titles and adding tags etc. It’s a massive task but I just love doing it – it’s the blogging equivalent of putting a photo album together (do you remember what that is?) Anyway, as...
CONTINUE READINGIMPORTANT MESSAGE: This article is now updated here What’s in my palette DS Hansa Yellow Medium PY97 (two pans – see here for more)* DS Transparent Pyrrol Orange PO71 DS Quinacridone Rose PV19 SCH French Ultramarine PB29 DS Cerulean Blue Chromium PB36* DS Indanthrone Blue PB60 WN Cobalt Turquoise Light PG50 DS Cobalt...
CONTINUE READINGI just discovered that I haven’t been regularly sharing my everyday sketches – it was Feb last year when I last published a Last Week article! What???? That’s a sign of how jam packed 2019 was and that even though I was sketching a lot, I just didn’t find the time to share. So, I...
CONTINUE READINGAs mentioned previously, I can feel a bit lost when I use different paper as I can’t achieve my normal wet in wet techniques. This is especially the case when I sketch teacups as I’m dependent on the paper behaving, so I create the fun patterns on the saucer. These two sketches were done on...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve recently finished a Nostalgie sketchbook by Hahnemuhle and I absolutely loved using it! Nostalgie paper is 190gsm very smooth white paper (no cotton content) which is similar to Stillman and Birn Epsilon and Zeta (in fact it’s midway in weight between the two). Here is a photo comparing the surface with the Hahnemuhle Watercolour...
CONTINUE READINGI’m gearing up for a Group Run Through of my SketchingNow Buildings course and I’m very excited as it’s going to be the most interactive run through I’ve ever done. We’ll be taking it slowly (two weeks for each lesson) so that we can all really absorb the concepts and have time to do the...
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