Doing another quick Palladio sketch as I have been reading about him a lot in the last 6 months. I have also been planning my upcoming online course SketchingNow Buildings, and this sketch is a good example of how powerful our ‘object brain’ is. I initially drew the dome in the wrong spot – in...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I said on Facebook that Foundations Lesson 11 was my favourite as it explained the way I love to work. But the final Lesson 12 was really the most enjoyable of them all – by far! There was no new content, but instead I did a wrap-up of all the course material and...
CONTINUE READINGYesterday I finally got around to meeting Richard Briggs, one of the new instructors at this year’s Urban Sketchers Symposium in Manchester. He is a British architect (lived in Manchester for 10 years) who has now settled in Sydney. We had a lively chat over coffee and I was very much inspired by his sketches...
CONTINUE READINGWell, one of the most important decisions regarding my big upcoming trip has been made today: I have locked in the selection of paints in my watercolour palette. Yay! The amazing thing is that it’s exactly what I was using this time last year and what is currently listed in my watercolour section –...
CONTINUE READINGIs your biggest struggle finding something interesting to draw? Is your life boring? Is the place where you live dull and uninteresting? I think we all have these thoughts from time to time. Yes, I know that my life has in many ways become very exciting, but like everyone else, most of my days...
CONTINUE READINGI had an up-and-down time of it last week. I was tempted to write a ‘tough week’ but that would have been too negative as despite a few major challenges, there were numerous very good events and as always, many many things to be thankful for! As a result I didn’t sketch as much as...
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