Teacup sketches for an exchange
May 11, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
These three were done for a sketch exchange (which I will tell you more about soon)
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Drawing a 'Tommy Kane' teacup
May 10, 2014 | 3 Comments
Sorry for the double post this evening…but I thought I better take up Tommy Kane’s challenge this week on Sketchbook Skool to do a very slow sketch – how about 10 times slower than normal? Would that do? I do find it hard to slow down so this was a lot of fun!!! The one...
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Bits and pieces....and a new yellow teapot
May 10, 2014 | 2 Comments
Two exploratory sketches of a new teapot I got last month…. never got around to scanning till now. Fun to sketch but I prefer tea cups! By the way, if you are worried about the ‘rejected’ comment it is not the sketch or the teapot as such… but a ‘fit for purpose’ reason… for something...
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In a Tasmanian newspaper
May 10, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
Got a copy of a newspaper article that features me…. in a local Hobart newspaper… all about my upcoming workshop in Tasmania. Really looking forward to it!
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A very quick sketch of complicated building
May 9, 2014 | Leave your thoughts
Following from last Saturday’s USK SYD event at Rivendell I want to write a little more about the step by step of this somewhat crazy sketch. The whole thing was completed in just over 15minutes and has been done in a large A4 moleskine watercolour book (so the width of the sketch is 2 x...
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Schmincke Translucent Orange…
May 8, 2014 | 4 Comments
…..a colour I love but is not in my standard palette. It is a wonderful colour but I now use Daniel Smith Transparent Pyrrol Orange which is deeper (more versatile as a warm red) so the Trans. Orange got taken out. Stunning pigment I miss it!!!! Flowers in my studio- trying to sketch them...
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