I had one morning in Glasgow on Thursday last week – this is the day before the tragic fire at the Glasgow School of Art – so sad! I didn’t make it to that end of town last week but I’m pleased that I have visited it before (including an inside tour) and sketched it...
CONTINUE READINGHave you sketched in a plane? Is it something that you do every time you fly? Do you enjoy these sketches? I started recording the view from my seat on every flight in the early days of Urban Sketching. I don’t really enjoy doing them that much, but I do miss it if I don’t....
CONTINUE READINGBecause I’m travelling at the moment I haven’t been able to blog consistently, but I have been keeping up with Marc Taro Holmes’ #30x30directwatercolor2018 challenge. Here is the first half of my sketches… keep scrolling and I will share a few thoughts at the end. 01. Vicenza: Palladio’s Loggia 02. Vicenza: Palladio’s Basilica 03. Vicenza:...
CONTINUE READINGThe big news of this trip is that Mike Botton and I are planning to offer a second sketching workshop in Italy for 2019! And, we plan to host this in Umbria, another gorgeous region of Italy. So after my short visit to Florence we spend a period of 5 days exploring the area and...
CONTINUE READINGLast week, after my two days in Verona, I headed south to Florence. I have not been to Florence since 2007 which was part of my first ever overseas sketching trip. So it was fun to revisit the city and not feel pressured to tick everything off a must-do list, because I did most of...
CONTINUE READINGEarlier in the week I spent two nights in Verona and had a wonderful time. Apart from dinner with some friends on the first evening (more about that later) I was on my own. It was a great chance to catch up with myself and do some sketching ‘just for me.’ I didn’t do any...
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