It’s always a big highlight of my European trip to spend some time with family and (church) friends on the Isle of Lewis and this year I had over two weeks. I spent most of my days working in a lovely AirBnB house and then in the afternoon I would hang out with my sister...
CONTINUE READINGWith all my teaching, travel and other work in the past few weeks I haven’t had much time to share my direct watercolour sketches as part of the 30×30 challenge. But I have been doing them, and in fact hit 30 on Thursday 13th June – less than half way through the month. Because I’m...
CONTINUE READINGPart of the preparation for the Group Run-through of my SketchingNow Watercolour course (see more here) is to sketch your palette. My palette hasn’t conceptually changed for a number of years but from time to time I tweak it, exploring alternatives within the general categories of colours. This trip my palette has been continually changing...
CONTINUE READINGAfter my 6.5 weeks in Italy I headed for Scotland, and had two nights in Edinburgh en-route to the Isle of Lewis. After so much time in Italy it was a bit of a culture shock to be in an English speaking country and I kept saying Grazie for the first 24 hours. It was...
CONTINUE READINGMy last day in Italy for this trip was spent in Vicenza – partly doing work and going out for two brief sketching sessions (one at lunchtime and one before dinner). Part of my work was packing up and shipping home 6.5kg of paper – my first 6 sketchbooks, my Palladian Odyssey teaching folders and...
CONTINUE READINGAfter the last of my Palladian Odyssey workshops I had a few extra days to myself and on one of these days I went to Venice! Vicenza is only a short 4o minute train ride away from Venice and the history of the two cities are very intertwined. It was therefore really wonderful to return...
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