Liz Steel

New Teacup Era

October 17, 2015 | 2 Comments

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Teacup Sketching

I am someone that makes periodic rather than constant changes. So I use the one teacup all the time for a season and then change it. All year I used my SketchingNow foundations cup until I bought a new one for Edges. But now both of these cups have strong associations with insane work hours...

New Book: Creative Sketching Workshop

October 16, 2015 | 5 Comments

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Reviews

I was very excited this week to see a pile of Pete Scully’s book “Creative Sketching Workshop” on the shelves in Kinokuniya. It is a great new book of 20 workshops packed with different exercises to try out. This photo shows the contents page so you can see the range of topics covered in...

Changing my 'fad' colour

October 14, 2015 | Leave your thoughts

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Watercolour

Two weeks ago I shared an updated list of paints in my palette and I wrote: “this might change and chances are it will happen within a month or two of my listing all my current colours! It normally happens that way, as soon as I put a line in the sand I shift...

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Launceston (and Workshop) Sketches

October 13, 2015 | 5 Comments

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Travel Sketching Workshops

Here are most of my sketches from last week’s visit to Launceston to prepare and teach a 3 day travel sketching workshop. I have a number of ‘teaching pages’ (notated diagrams etc) that I will scan and send to the participants, but most of my demo sketches are included in this post. I didn’t do...