I have now been in Vicenza for 24 hours and it’s so wonderful to be back again for the third time. It is a beautiful but relaxed city and I’m starting to feel at home here even though I don’t speak Italian. I will be very busy for the next fortnight teaching two back-to-back Palladian...
CONTINUE READINGI’m very excited to be a part of a new watercolour challenge for June by Marc Taro Holmes. You can read the official announcement on Marc’s blog but here are his guidelines: What is #30x30DirectWatercolor2018? PAINT 30 watercolors in 30 days, from June 1-30 2018. POST your paintings in our new Facebook group: <HERE We’d...
CONTINUE READINGSo the big plan coming up is to be in Europe for approx. 2.5 months. Wow – what a long time to be travel sketching! As I find it very inconvenient to fill up pans while I’m travelling (Daniel Smith paint takes days to dry) I have to make a guess as to how much...
CONTINUE READINGI have a little over a week to go until I head overseas for a long trip so it is not the time to start something new. However last week I completed my current sketchbook and wasn’t sure what to do next. I actually started using an A5 landscape Fabriano Watercolour Book (from LarryPost), however...
CONTINUE READINGI’m really enjoying the Sketchbook Revival event as it’s making me think about what is special about creating art inside a sketchbook. There are many reasons… but an important one for me is the compositional fun that comes from designing a sketchbook page/double page spread. It’s not just the individual sketch, it’s the collection of...
CONTINUE READINGEarlier this week I spend a few hours playing with my paints (something I haven’t done for ages) in order to investigate two issues in my current palette: A replacements for Quinacridone Gold (PO49) since it is no longer available. See more here. Alternatives for DS Sap Green as I am not 100% happy with...
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