Just 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...
CONTINUE READINGGetting 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....
CONTINUE READINGJust 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,...
CONTINUE READINGIt’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...
CONTINUE READINGWith 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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