So I spent 2 hours at Goodfields Eatery this morning and managed to sketch 24 people (and a coffee) in watercolour in 1 hour, and then spent the other hour doing some work (i’m trying not to think about how much work I have to get done this week!) I’m very happy with what I...
CONTINUE READINGSo yesterday morning I decided to go to the ‘busy cafe’ to get a feel for how much time it will take me to do 20 watercolour people. I have an extremely demanding week ahead (in terms of workload) so I wanted to make sure that my goals are achievable. The other reason for this...
CONTINUE READINGOver the years, I’ve created many articles introducing the concepts of my very popular Foundations course. This page contains an index to all those articles. My Foundations course will help you develop the essential sketchers that every sketcher needs. It has been designed for beginners but is also great for more seasoned sketchers who want...
CONTINUE READINGToday we officially finished the Re-run of SketchingNow Foundations and it’s been an amazing experience for me. Rather than just going through the course and writing Foundations articles which I have done twice before, this year I added heaps of bonus material (videos!) into the classroom. In the end I filmed more than 4.5 hours...
CONTINUE READINGSo next week is the big challenge – sketching 100 people in five days – and I’m mentally gearing up for it! I know from previous years that it’s fairly easy for me to do 20 quick loose ink drawings of people (mainly heads) each day. This above page which I did a week...
CONTINUE READINGSo I recently discovered that my favourite sketchbook – Moleskine A4 Landscape Watercolour sketchbook – now comes in a portrait format. Wow! this is exciting news. There is no doubt that I am very excited about this format but it has created a little dilemma for me. I have a huge European trip coming up...
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