Last year I had the goal of creating more videos, and sadly it just didn’t seem to happen. But this year, I’ve been making video demos non-stop! First there was the 4+ hours of bonus material which I added to SketchingNow Foundations during the re-run which we did January- March. Then there was the massive...
CONTINUE READINGAs well as playing with new paints and a new fountain pen lately, I have also been testing the new A4 portrait format Moleskine watercolour books. I was ordering my usual landscape ones on Book Depository and suddenly discovered the new format. So I bought a few of both and then started agonising over which...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s only a few days time until I pack my bags and head to Europe for 3 months of remote working. And my second destination is scheduled to be this gorgeous hilltop Umbrian town which will be my home for nearly 3 weeks as part of the Palladian Odyssey 2019 Tours. Naturally I am extremely...
CONTINUE READINGLast year when I was in Krakow, Poland, and sketching with the local Urban Sketcher group, I met Roman Szmal who was developing his own line of watercolour paints. He had been working with local artist Agata Kwiatkowska and gave me the second set he had ever made up. After exchanging business cards he headed...
CONTINUE READINGA few weeks ago I got a new fountain pen. It’s an Opus 88 Fantasia and I love it a lot. Such lovely colours! It’s an eyedropper pen meaning that you fill up the body of the pen with ink (no cartridge) so that you get a lot of ink storage. This is a pocket...
CONTINUE READINGAt the moment, when I’m not sketching people, I have been preparing the material for the workshops which I’m scheduled to teach in Europe over the next few months – the Palladian Odyssey Tours (in both the Umbria and Veneto regions of Italy) and the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Amsterdam. Two weeks ago I had...
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