I was looking through my teacup sketch collection for 2017 (which incidentally is much less than in previous years) and realised that I haven’t shared one of my favourite sketches. This teacup sketch was part of a demo called “Sketch and Sip: How to sketch hot beverages on location without them going cold” which I...
CONTINUE READINGWhen your 6 year old niece gives you a present… from her toy collection! I hope you are all having a great holiday season.
CONTINUE READINGHere is another one of my quick building sketches from my recent trip to San Francisco. This time it’s a little turquoise house in the very cool suburb of Bernal Heights. Once again, this is not a traditional ink and wash sketch (ie. ink first then wash) but I can’t remember whether it was ‘paint...
CONTINUE READINGI’m excited to announce that enrollment is now open for my new online course – SketchingNow Watercolour. Watercolour sketching (and particularly out on location) involves a different approach than traditional watercolour studio painting and this is what we will explore in the course. Note: If you can’t see the embedded video please click here. The...
CONTINUE READINGJust a super quick post today to share a sketch from my September trip to San Fransisco – a very quick sketch of Mission Dolores. I love sketching buildings which have strong simple volumes and lots of fancy details. In this sketch I put the paint down first and then drew a few loose lines...
CONTINUE READINGToday I want to ask you to share your favourite sketchbook. I have two favourite books: Stillman & Birn Alpha as my everyday sketchbook (currently I like the softcover 8×10) Moleskine A4 Watercolour Folio Sketchbook as my travel and ‘special’ sketchbooks l Iove the alpha sketchbooks because there are lots of pages, the paper is...
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