Today I started my SketchingNow adventures again – this week it was Balmain. For various reasons, the high temperature of the day being an important one, I didn’t make a full day of it and in fact, only did one ‘real’ sketch! The last few weeks of my Foundations course are devoted to location...
CONTINUE READINGI seem to be loading up a different fountain pen with a new colour of the De Atramentis Document Ink every day … yesterday it was a mixed light green (I wanted it to be lighter) and a mixed magenta and grey (I wanted an Australian maroon but simply put some magenta into a pen...
CONTINUE READINGAnother teacup sketch late last night and once again playing with different coloured inks (among other things). It is strange how I sometimes feel guilty drawing teacups over and over again but often I just don’t have much time or brain space for something else. And the act of sketching my cuppa is a good...
CONTINUE READINGNormally by day 3 of a new year I have done many pages but this year I have had a few great productive days working instead. This is my gold cup that I haven’t sketched for years because it went missing. I was using 4 colours of De Atramentis ink. mixed Raw Sienna, Magenta, mixed...
CONTINUE READINGAs promised here are the details of the sketchbooks I used in 2014. It was a year of change for me in that: 1. I moved from an A5 portrait format sketchbook to a landscape version which was larger and providing me with more options. 2. I started using a second sketchbook for my...
CONTINUE READINGIt has been lovely to have a few visiting USKers in Sydney lately and to have a few ‘adhoc’ casual meetings. Giving people only 1 day’s notice at this time of year is a little outrageous so it was great to have a group of 15 turn up on Cockatoo Island on Tuesday – with...
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