This week for Foundations Friday I will be looking at the third way of seeing (visual thinking) : constructing volumes. Most artists focus on the first two ways of seeing, drawing with lines or painting with shapes. However as an architect, my brain is wired to think in terms of volumes – I have...
CONTINUE READINGI love starting my sketches with a watercolour wash rather than ink lines. I find that when it is just me and the pigment floating on the paper, I capture the light better and get more interesting coloured washes. I think this is because I am purely focusing on the coloured shapes and therefore see...
CONTINUE READINGI am super excited and thrilled to be once again teaching at this year’s Urban Sketchers Symposium in Manchester 27-30 July. I will be sharing how I sketch architecture experimentally in edges, shapes and volumes! Read the full workshop description here. There are a lot of different approaches to sketching architecture and over the last...
CONTINUE READINGG’day – had a dinky-di time on Straya Day with some of the fam. Snags (but no shrimps on the barbie) and damper for lunch. Then lammos sarvo with a cuppa. Too right, stone the crows, we had a ripper of a time. I never talk Aussie slang, but well… some days it just...
CONTINUE READINGAnother week, and another collection of latte sketches. I am really wanting to broaden my subject range but I am struggling to find time to sketch apart from my cafe visits – and things are about to get even busier from next week. Putting this post together has prompted me to decide that for this...
CONTINUE READINGJust a quick weekend post…. Saturday Morning: Nothing like a visit to my favorite cafe The Missing Piece at Macquarie Centre to start my weekend – especially as I am doing some serious planning this morning while I sip my latte. Got lots of exciting projects to map out this year. Love the background buzz...
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