Great news – My book is now available! Amazon.com The book is called Five Minute Sketching: Architecture and contains many tips for sketching buildings quickly. Here is the cover to the UK edition. I love sketching architecture and I love sketching fast! In this book I share ways of understanding buildings that will enable...
CONTINUE READINGI just wanted to share with you this fun video demonstration filmed by the wonderful Symi from Rosemary & Co Brushes during our visit to Haworth back in July. It shows you the way that I quickly sketch architecture standing up and using my beloved dagger brush (Rosemary 1/2 inch Series 772) for loose strokes....
CONTINUE READINGWhen it comes to sketching buildings, is knowing where to start one of your biggest challenges ? How do you simplify complex architecture so that it is fun to sketch? So that you don’t get lost and overwhelmed? How can you speed up your architecture sketches and become looser without sacrificing accuracy altogether? Well, I...
CONTINUE READINGI feel like I am a cracked record at times, but I’ll be totally honest with you and admit that finding the time to sketch at the moment is hard, very hard. And yet as soon as I write that, I realise that finding a few minutes each day to sketch shouldn’t be hard, so...
CONTINUE READINGFollowing on from a description of what I taught in the Manchester Urban Sketchers Symposium, I want now to write about what it is like to be an instructor. It is always an enormous honour and privilege to teach at a USK Symposium – definitely a highlight of my year! I run my own 1...
CONTINUE READINGI am in a palette experimental stage at the moment and have no firm decisions to share yet – but this is just to let you know that: 1. Despite loving Schmincke Translucent Orange and Winsor & Newton Naples Yellow I’m just not using them enough for them to remain in my palette. (Sad goodbye…...
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