Further to my previous article about deciding on the colours, I finally got around to preparing my palette and the extra pans that I expect I might need. There is no time in my busy itinerary to make up more and allow them to set for a few days if I need extra en-route! Not...
CONTINUE READINGI just want to share a few pages in my sketchbooks from a 5 week trip Wales, England (only ‘the north’), Scotland and Paris back in September 2009. This was my first big overseas solo sketching trip and I really love looking back through these books. I put more effort back then into documenting the...
CONTINUE READINGI can’t help myself! I keep thinking about that Palladian dome mistake (see here and here) and so re-visited it again this morning during my cafe visit to work out how I could draw it more accurately using perspective. These are my rough (pencil) sketches trying to work it out. Basically I was looking for...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the things I love about sharing my work online is that the comments from other people can prompt me to return to a sketch and analyse it further. And that is what is happening this week with my Palladio sketch. It’s not so much because I made a mistake (I make mistakes...
CONTINUE READINGI just posted about this sketch of St Thomas church (in North Sydney) over on the USK Symposium blog, but I want to share it with you here as well – and post the full step by step images! This is a sketch I did both as prep for my symposium workshop and also for...
CONTINUE READINGI really enjoy the discipline of these weekly wrap-up posts. Not only for the chance to put together all the sketches I have done in the week just past, but also to reflect on some ideas that emerge. What I am finding is that each week is in some ways the same, and in other...
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