I can’t remember when the last time I went into town and had a little sketching for myself…today it really hit the spot! I needed to go back into the Rocks area just to check how busy it was on the weekend and with the markets on. I also wanted to check where the...
CONTINUE READINGThis week was the big week! Yes, I was teaching perspective in my Sketching Architecture classes in the Rocks. (this is a little doodle sketch I did during the class to show the main setup for our subject) Based once again in our wonderful classroom in the Tea Cosy, we started doing some line...
CONTINUE READINGHere is the spread from yesterday with this afternoon’s architectural sketch relaxation… trying to slow my pace and just have a bit of fun with line and colour. I know there are other things to draw – and I much prefer to be out on location and not sketching from a secondary source but...
CONTINUE READINGTwo quick sketches from last evening…. I do like to do a very very basic ‘7 line’ setup of the main building volumes so the overall perspective is ok… but last night I was doing away with that. Instead trying to draw every line conforming to eyeline and vanishing points that I hadn’t even...
CONTINUE READINGMissing the time to do some sketching these days – I need to make time and tonight I did that! I decided that if I was going to teach how to use a little basic perspective when sketching buildings I should do a little myself as warmup. Sketching from an architectural magazine: In some ways...
CONTINUE READINGAnother fun teaching day – this time a full day workshop on Travel sketching for Ku-Ring-gai Art Society(KAS). I did a talk at their monthly meeting back in June. I loaded a suitcase up with a small collection from my travel sketchbooks and a range of different type sketchbooks, a few different palettes and...
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