Last week I stayed overnight in a “harbourview apartment” on Cockatoo Island. The island is located in Sydney Harbour and was a convict penal establishment between 1839-69 and then a huge shipyard up until 1951. It is one of my favourite places in Sydney to sketch but for various reasons it is nearly two years...
CONTINUE READINGA super quick post today to share pages in my sketchbook from the last fortnight. I haven’t done a lot of sketching (with the exception of a brief sketching getaway which I will tell you about later in the week) but recording what I sketched in my schedule is keeping me more aware and accountable....
CONTINUE READINGI’m excited to announce that I’ll be part of a great online event coming up later this month It’s called Sketchbook Revival (hosted by my new friend Karen Abend) running between 23 April – 4 May (and drum roll please) it’s FREE! It will feature over 20 artists (fine artists, illustrators, intuitive artists, designers, art...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I received my copy of Florian Afflerbach: Der Zeichner – a crowdfunded book celebrating the work of one of my USK friends – Florian (Flaf) – who was tragically killed in a traffic accident in 2016. I was completed blown away by this book on many levels. It’s a stunningly beautiful book (more...
CONTINUE READINGAnother quick post today… just to share a sketch from last week. Hmm, teacup sketches have become a very rare event for my lately and I am not sure why. I’m having a little overnight sketching adventure at the moment – if you are following me on Instagram you will know where I am.
CONTINUE READINGJust a quick post today to let you all know that Sydney is hosting a series of USK 10×10 workshops again this year. I will be teaching a number of workshops – the first on Saturday 28 April called ” Sketching complex scenes with edges and shapes.” I taught this last year at Millers Point...
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Online Sketching Courses with Liz Steel
