On Monday morning I did this quick sketch of a surprise bunch of flowers my aunt gave me on Saturday at a family reunion. Surprise because I didn’t expect her to know it was my birthday the next day. Don’t make a fuss about my birthday – it’s just a normal day! I didn’t even...
CONTINUE READINGI started sketching my #usksingapore2015 kit tonight but need to come back later to finish. Haven’t got my fountain pens included yet. Sketching my kit is a great way to cross check I have everything and make me realise I have too much stuff. This is exactly what lesson 1 in my SketchingNow Foundations...
CONTINUE READINGMy ‘belts and braces’ approach to traveling with ink. Taking fountain pens on the plane: I always fill my lamy pen fully before travelling on the plane and of course use it during the flight. Only once ever have I had a very slight leakage problem and my lamy pen has been on many many...
CONTINUE READINGI have a tradition of setting up a clean palette for a big overseas trip, and this time I even bought a new paint tin. So as I was putting my palette together, I took some photos to explain my process. Here are three great blog posts, that I highly recommend you read. They fill...
CONTINUE READINGThe last 5 weeks have been very crazy – long long days (and nights) chained to my computer and then 10 days ago my sister and family arrived from Scotland. I feel like I haven’t been sketching at all but this morning, when taking a little break from my work, I sat down to do...
CONTINUE READINGI can only survive for so long without blogging and scanning my work. For some reason, scanning and blogging are very important to the process of sketching for me. So here are my sketches from Saturday’s USK SYD event. Three versions of Sydney’s Central Station, all different ways of sketching…. The first was paint first...
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