I just haven’t had the time to keep my blog up to date lately and feel like I haven’t been doing much daily sketching lately… but putting this blog post together has proved that even when I am ‘not seriously sketching’ I am still sketching. (sketching at Collaroy Beach) These pages represent a...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the great things about the Urban Sketchers community is that when you travel you can meet up with local sketchers. We don’t get that many international visitors here in Sydney but this week we had two. Patrick from Singapore (who I have met before in Singapore) and Will from Manchester. We were able...
CONTINUE READINGI visited Martin Place today to sketch the huge field of flowers that has sprung up in response to this week’s tragic events in Sydney – at the Lindt Cafe in the very heart of the city. It was an overwhelming scene to try to draw for many reasons but it is even harder to...
CONTINUE READINGThis week for the last of my SketchingNow Adventure this year, I headed to Parramatta. It marks a half way point in the metropolitan area and is located at the point where the Parramatta River becomes freshwater. It also the location of the oldest inland European settlement in Australia; within a year of the British...
CONTINUE READINGAs a follow up to my recent post where I shared the story of my red lines, and because I have recently received a box of all the new De Atramentis Document Inks I thought I would try using red ink for guidelines. Hmmm, an interesting experiment and it has got me thinking ‘is it...
CONTINUE READINGLast Saturday was the last USK SYD event for the year and despite my current workload decided to get out and enjoy some sketching just for me. We were meeting on Regents St outside the Mortuary Station…and it was great just to get my paints out and play a little! The Mortuary Station (1869) was...
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