Earlier 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...
CONTINUE READINGFollowing from yesterday’s vlog, here are the pages from my sketchbook in full, including the two sketches done with Daniel Smith watercolour sticks, I will be doing a full review later, but at the moment I am just in the initial ‘play stage’. Once again, huge thanks to Daniel Smith for sending me these...
CONTINUE READINGAnother week, another vlog. Not only am I really enjoying putting these vlogs together, but I am also loving the renewed motivation I have for sketching and documenting my life. Even though I have been putting together summaries of my week’s worth of sketch on my blog for the last year or so – refer...
CONTINUE READINGThe third chapter in my new book 5 Minute Sketching Architecture is called Time-Saving Techniques and in it I explore lots of different ways for using line and colour. The secret to sketching buildings quickly is to simplify them into the big shapes and structural elements that we looked at in Chapter 1. Once you...
CONTINUE READING2022 UPDATE: I now use a simpler board (see here) or a Stablo. There are a few challenges when it comes to watercolour sketching out on location. A lot of people stress about being out in public and are afraid of what people will think of them. But once you get over that, the biggest...
CONTINUE READINGAs promised, here are the pages from my sketchbook as discussed in Vlog 3. It is fun to flip through the pages, but it is always really interesting for me to see them side by side as well and compare my compositional choices from spread to spread. So here are the sketches from my current...
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