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Trip Prep: Workshop Handouts and 6 month wrap-up

June 14, 2016 | 5 Comments
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  The countdown is on for me as I prepare for my big trip and I have four different workshops in my head at the moment: A two day workshop in Lucca at the end of the month(sold out), A workshop Urban Sketchers Symposium at the end of next month, Palladian Odyssey planning trip, Prep...

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Trip Prep: Testing my workflow

June 13, 2016 | 7 Comments
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This trip I would very much like to keep up the posts here on the blog – not daily, but every few days. So this morning I tested what is involved in downloading and resizing images from my two cameras, iphone and snapchat screen captures to see what is involved and what the quality is...

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Inspiring architects to start sketching (again)

June 10, 2016 | 21 Comments
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I had the very great honour of giving a lunchtime talk today in the office of BVN Sydney (BVN is one of the top architectural firms in Australia). It was an introductory talk for a series of workshops planned for later in the year to help develop the freehand sketching and painting skills of the...

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Trip Prep: Sketchbook Strategies

June 9, 2016 | 14 Comments
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     One of the things I have mentioned before is how much the sketchbook size affects how much you sketch. The smaller the book the more likely you will pull it out and do a small quick random sketch. The larger the sketchbook the less likely you are to do this, and the more likely...

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Trip Prep: More Scottish Landscape Practice

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I am doing a little Scottish landscape practice in my spare time lately – in preparation for my upcoming trip to Scotland. Landscapes are not a subject I do often, so I’m really looking forward to a few weeks of rolling hills and little white houses. It will do me good. On the weekend I...

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New workshop in Italy: Palladian Odyssey

June 7, 2016 | 6 Comments
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Today I am very pleased to announce the project that I have been hinting at for months… drum roll please… 5 day travel sketching workshop in 2017  to the Veneto area with a special emphasis on the architecture of Palladio – hence the title Palladian Odyssey. (Note: I can hardly type those words without getting...

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