The 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...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve sketched the Sydney Opera House a number of times this summer so I thought it would be fun to put them all together in one article and see if there are any themes with the way I’ve been approaching it lately. It’s also interesting to compare the different sketchbooks which I have been using....
CONTINUE READINGLast week I decided to sketch a pink teacup each day – it turned out to be a lot of fun! I’m not really into pink so I was wondering if I would get sick of pink teacups by the end. But I didn’t! BTW: It actually had nothing to do with Valentine’s Day...
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