Last week I started a new project: Sketching my way through my teacup collection. The idea is to drink out of a different teacup each week and to do a sketch of it. I just realised that it will be 10 years in February from when I started in earnest to regularly sketch teacups so...
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Today I started a new sketchbook as #112 was finished on the weekend. But hey, didn’t I just start a new book a few weeks ago? Yes, I finished a Stillman and Birn Alpha Softcover 8×10″ size, 120 page sketchbook in only 3 weeks! I think this is a record for an everyday sketching book...
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Over the last two weeks I have been sharing examples of Feeling Edges and Abstracting Shapes from my 2018 travel sketchbooks. These are two of the three ways of visual thinking which I explain in detail in SketchingNow Foundations. Today, we will look at the third way – Constructing Volumes. Constructing volumes is all about...
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I get asked this question on a regular basis, so obviously I haven’t got it clearly specified anywhere. Therefore that is what I’m doing today! Answer: The headings are made with a photopolymer stamp set – Southport Alphabet by Kelly Purkey – using an acrylic block and Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black stamp pad. I...
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