Last Saturday we had another 10×10 day here in Sydney. This is part of the celebrations of Urban Sketchers’ 10 year anniversary and happening all around the world. I taught a workshop all about how to paint complex scenes in shapes – how starting with shapes helps simplify the scene, strengthens your sketch and is...
CONTINUE READINGI don’t feel as if I have been sketching as much as I used to do a few years back. Part of the reason is that my hobby has become my job – I love my work so much and feel very creatively fulfilled. In the old days, while working as an architect on the...
CONTINUE READINGTime for another teacup sketch. I picked this one as it has a repeating pattern and I thought that I hadn’t sketched it recently. It turns out that I sketched it only a few months ago here. I decided to do a few thumbnails to study the pattern a little more carefully than I have...
CONTINUE READINGI love writing 5 articles a week for my blog, I really do! In fact, it would be very accurate to say that I am addicted to it. I have so many ideas in my head that I want to process – writing them down and sharing them here is a great way for me...
CONTINUE READINGThe final lesson in my Foundations course is all about reviewing your work and thinking about a few takeaways to focus on immediately. You can read more about it in last year’s article. My three takeaways for this year are: How much I continue to get out of brushing up on the basics. There are...
CONTINUE READINGTwo weeks ago I got a set of the Daniel Smith new colours for 2017. They have been around for a while but it takes a long time to get down under. A huge thanks to Daniel Smith for sending me the set to test and play with. So far it’s just playtime. The colours...
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