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From the archives: Ink and wash thoughts

April 15, 2016 | 4 Comments
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Another quick post… this time just to share a sketch in isolation. This quick sketch of The Fox Hunters Return in Campbell Town on the Heritage Highway in Tasmania was done during my visit in May 2014. As most of you know, these days I prefer mixing up the order in which I apply ink...

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Warming up to do work

April 14, 2016 | 7 Comments
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Architecture SketchingEveryday SketchingWork Life

Well, I wasn’t planning to post today, but lifting my self imposed daily commitment to blog by 5pm Sydney time has meant that now, after dinner, I have a moment to share this morning’s warmup sketch. Sometimes I do crazy rapid lines to get myself in the mood, other times it’s alternating between line and...

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Sketching the orders of Architecture

April 13, 2016 | Leave your thoughts
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Architecture Sketching

  Just a really quick post to let you all know that I have my last big push on my sketching architecture book so I might miss a few days on my blog this week. I am working on the sketches for the Resources Section, and no book on sketching architecture is complete without some...

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Morning at Macquarie University

April 12, 2016 | 4 Comments
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I had a few hours at Macquarie University this morning, doing a sketch or two for the book I am writing on Sketching Architecture. I won’t show you what I did for the book, but these are the sketches I did for myself. I don’t know Macquarie Uni very well (I studied Architecture at UNSW…...

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Last Week: Not focusing on sketching?

April 11, 2016 | 13 Comments
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Last week when I was writing up my thoughts about my “Out of Action” week I realised that right at the moment sketching is not my focus. And this was proved emphatically when I realised that I’ve had some new paint tubes for the last month that have been sitting unopened. So far, this year...

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Updated Sketching Architecture Page

April 9, 2016 | 7 Comments
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Architecture Sketching

Just a quick post today to let you know that during the week (yes, with everything else going on!) my new Sketching Architecture page went live. Yay! I am extremely excited about this page as it has been set up just like the Sketching Tools page with a number of categories so it is easy...

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