With the combination of teaching perspective twice in the last month and re-visiting all the content for my Edges course (getting ready for relaunch next week!) I am becoming more and more convinced that perspective isn’t the biggest issue when it comes to sketching buildings and street scenes. Don’t get me wrong, perspective is...
CONTINUE READINGI am finally getting a chance to finish off my summaries of my recent trip to Melbourne. So here are the sketches which I did on my last day when I had a lovely relaxing sketching day out with my two great friends Alissa Duke and Angela Williams. I hope that I never take for...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I was thinking about the differences between creating art and recording life. They are not opposing ideas and there are overlaps, but there is a difference in the intention. Here are a few thoughts I had: If your goal is to create art you will be looking for an occasion to ‘do a...
CONTINUE READINGThis sketch of a hot cross bun is one of the quickest sketches I have done lately (under 3 minutes) but when it came to write a few words about it, I realised that there were lots of thoughts going on in my head at the time. And I can’t help thinking (once again) of...
CONTINUE READINGSome of my long-term readers will know about my old habit of Friday Night Baroque where I used to find sketching a complex Baroque building (from a photo) was the perfect way for me to wind down and relax after a busy week at the (architects) office. That habit has fallen by the wayside a...
CONTINUE READINGAfter my commitments for the Watercolour Society of Victoria (see here for details) I had two days to prepare for my 2 day Sketching Architecture workshop in North Melbourne (see here for the report). As I mentioned in yesterday’s post I had a lot of stuff that I should be working on so I didn’t...
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