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Palladio and perspective sketching

December 6, 2017 | 2 Comments
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Getting back to my series of articles re-living the Palladian Odyssey tours in May this year… I want to share a little today about how perfect a Palladian villa is for learning perspective sketching. Whenever I teach perspective I look for a simple building with a few basic volumes which is sitting on flat ground....

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Updated 12 colour palette

December 4, 2017 | 7 Comments
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Just a quick post to let you know that I have updated my 12 colour palette (only minor changes) and that this is the palette I will be using for my upcoming online course: SketchingNow Watercolour. Head over to the original article for more details about my selection. If you are interested in the course,...

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Last Week: Not what I had planned

November 27, 2017 | 9 Comments
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It’s a long time since I last shared all my sketches from ‘last week’. And in fact I know that you haven’t seen many daily sketches as a general rule for the last few months. That’s because I haven’t been sketching much at all. If it wasn’t for my morning coffee sketches my pages would...

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Cuppa Tea Time: Another half sabbatical

November 20, 2017 | 2 Comments
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With all my travel in the last six months, I haven’t worked 6 weeks in a row since April, and so I haven’t taken one of my sabbatical weeks. As with the last one I took, I am not able to take a full week off as there is just too much to do for...

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First Filming Day for SketchingNow Watercolour

November 13, 2017 | 10 Comments
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I had an incredible day on Thursday – my first day of filming for my next online course SketchingNow Watercolour. I have done all the filming for my first three courses myself (or with the help of a few friends for the outdoor videos – thanks Chantal and Esther) and all the editing as well,...

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Travel sketchbooking on the Palladian Odyssey

November 6, 2017 | 5 Comments
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Travelling is the ultimate sketch experience for me as it’s a chance to make sketching a priority. Obviously I need to plan an itinerary of places I want to visit and focus on getting from A to B, but after that, sketching comes next. My sketching quantity and quality is the highest when I am...

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