Well, I have survived the first week of Edges, in full swing doing Lesson 2 and I am preparing for Lesson 3. I am having a ball and completely blown away by the quality of the sketches done by the group so far and all the stimulating discussion and questions. I haven’t been sketching much...
CONTINUE READINGLast Wednesday 2 September (the day that Edges started) I jumped in my car and headed north west to the limits of Sydney’s suburbia to the locality of Glenhaven. Once again the reason for this location was a good cafe that I wanted to visit. The Tuckshop Ah! there is nothing liking seeing the Blue...
CONTINUE READINGWith my Edges course now underway I have gone from one state of busy-ness to another! So finding time for sketching ‘just for me’ is a challenge! I am extremely thankful that this time around it is a lot less frentic and stressful than when I first ran Foundations. It is dealing with all the...
CONTINUE READINGA week ago I resumed my SketchingNow adventures that are associated with my online courses. The idea behind these outings is to get away from my computer, to explore new parts of my city and also to provide an opportunity to create new sketches based on what we are doing that week in my course....
CONTINUE READINGWell the final proof read of the written component and the videos are uploaded… and everything is ready to go for my second online sketching course, Edges, starting tomorrow! Running the Foundations course (Nov 2014) was the most incredible experience, I have never had a more ‘full on’ 13 weeks of my life – I...
CONTINUE READINGWhen I’m out sketching I’m thinking about edges all the time. When I find a scene I want to sketch, I first simplify what I see into shapes and/or volumes (in my head or in a thumbnail), but it is how the edges of the parts interact that I’m constantly thinking about while I’m...
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Online Sketching Courses with Liz Steel
