If you watched my recent vlog you would have seen a brief discussion about this simple sketch looking down a train carriage. I shared the thoughts which prompted me to do the sketch, but I want to come back to it and explain these in a little more detail. Last week I was...
CONTINUE READINGI still haven’t scanned all of my sketchbooks from my big 2 month Europe trip, but I have selected a few favourites and put them together into a 2017 calendar. These images were not created to be hung on the wall, instead they’re quick sketches (completed in under 30 minutes) representing my personal record of...
CONTINUE READINGAnother week has gone by, and it’s another week where I feel as if I didn’t do the sketching I had planned. But I still managed to fill my usual quota of pages despite a heavy head cold for most of the week. This week the theme is playing with new art materials – the...
CONTINUE READINGThe final chapter in my new book 5 Minute Sketching Architecture is called Speedy Supplies. This page from my sketchbook during my recent trip to London shows 3 different approaches to working fast. On the left, I just used my beloved White Joy Lamy pen (with a F-M nib) to draw a few important...
CONTINUE READINGI was just going through a sketchbook from August a few days ago and I came across this simple continuous line sketch from Cafe Reborn. It’s lovely when you rediscover a sketch you have forgotten about, isn’t it? Makes me feel like spending an hour looking through old sketchbooks – I don’t do that often...
CONTINUE READINGEarlier in the year I decided to work through my teacup collection and not sketch the same teacup twice. Well I have broken this resolution a few times and last week’s cuppa sketch was one of those occasions. You can see the whole collection here. Anyway, this is just a very quick loose sketch of...
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