The first two days of any trip are always really important for setting the tone for the rest of my holiday/vacation. And on this occasion they certainly helped me establish a rhythm and start the theme of experimentation! Day 1 – the drive north Port Macquarie is a four-hour drive north from Sydney, which...
CONTINUE READINGI’m just back home after a wonderful 12 days in Port Macquarie – spending lots of time sketching the local beaches and catching up with friends (often over food). My three goals were 1. to be outside as much as possible, 2. to catch up with friends, and 3. to play with and try new...
CONTINUE READINGI’m having a little break at the beach – breathing in the fresh air, walking on the sand, watching the crashing waves and… doing lots of sketching! As I’ve sketched these beaches many times before, I trying a lot of new experiments. So I’ll be having a break from publishing of articles here on...
CONTINUE READINGI don’t often get an opportunity to sketch the working side of a coffee machine. Normally… 1. I’m looking at the outside face and can only see the coffee cups on top and the heads of the baristas. 2. If I do get a view of the working side, there is too much activity...
CONTINUE READINGI spent a number of years of my life living in Epping and earlier this week I had a spare 1.5 hours to explore its streets. I haven’t been back since I left 7.5 years ago, and there have been a lot of changes. Not one of the 3 cafes or the 3 Thai restaurants...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I had another visit to Cockatoo Island with a sketcher from California. This time, I was with Laurie Wigham, who looked after me so well during my visits to San Francisco in 2017 and 2018 (including a very special sketching adventure in a Frank Lloyd Wright building). We had a fabulous day of...
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