These days I mostly start my sketches with some form of paint and then I alternate between paint and line as I work experimentally, but last night I decided to (try to) do a more traditional ink and wash sketch – ie. line first and then colour. My intention was to do a careful Palladian...
CONTINUE READINGI had the most wonderful morning sketching on Saturday with the USK SYD gang along Mrs Macquarie’s Road. The weather was gorgeous, the scenery stunning (I never get tired of Sydney Harbour) and the company great. Chris had designed a sketch challenge for us for the morning – one from three different spots along the...
CONTINUE READINGJust a short article today to share a very quick cup of tea sketch I did last week during my catch up with Stephanie Bower at The Tea Cosy and a few thoughts about finishing off sketches. We were still talking way after 4pm when the tearoom was closed and when we realised the time...
CONTINUE READINGToday I will share the last concept from my Foundations online course – working spontaneously out from a focus. In many ways this is a summary of the way I most frequently work and a description of what sketching means for me. Note: what I will be describing is very personal and certainly not the...
CONTINUE READINGI am an extremely happy girl today – not just because I was visiting my favourite tearoom (The Tea Cosy in the The Rocks) and hanging out with a visiting Urban Sketchers friend (the wonderful Stephanie Bower from Seattle – see below) but… drum roll please… I have my smile back! Yes, after 3.5 years...
CONTINUE READINGThis year has been a bit all over the place for me, with moving home, lots of local workshops and a lot of back of house stuff happening with my SketchingNow online courses (more about that soon). As a result I haven’t had the time to do any more vlogs, however here is a flip-through...
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