Following on from yesterday’s post about making mistakes, I want to revisit this sketch again from a few weeks ago and share a few thoughts about the compromises I accept when I am sketching with friends. It was a very complicated terrace house in Newtown painted in one of those ‘difficult-to-get-right-in-watercolour’ colours – a cream...
CONTINUE READINGI make mistakes all the time! If I didn’t make mistakes I would get bored and have little motivation to keep sketching and developing my own work. One of the most helpful aspects of sketching in a personal sketchbook for me, is that I have the freedom to document these mistakes without the pressure...
CONTINUE READINGLast week was all about testing my Faber Castell Graphite Aquarelle pencils as part of my new series Foundations Friday. It was also my first week back at work full time and I really hit the ground running. I immediately fell into my usual pattern of working all day and a number of...
CONTINUE READINGThis week I received an exciting package in the mail – a gift from Lamy (Australia) – it is a new White Joy pen! The Australian Distributor of Lamy contacted me after I shared the state of my pen and asking my readers whether I should get a new body for my gold nib. I...
CONTINUE READINGToday I am starting a new series – Foundations Fridays! Over the new few months, I will be revisiting the concepts that I teach in my SketchingNow Foundations online course, looking for different ways to apply them. I am NOT doing the exercises, but only latching onto one small part of each lesson to...
CONTINUE READINGDue to my new commitment to regular posting, I owe you an extra one this week as I mistakenly posted twice yesterday… no surprises with what I chose to share – hey? I have been so busy wrapping up last year, reflecting on my first three years of my grand adventure, and trying to work...
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