Final week at Balmoral was a lot of fun… we were exploring ways of working with watercolour. – how wet or dry or juicy to make your washes – how different pigments behave, – what brush to use, – crazy techniques like scraping, splashing, splattering and speckling, There is so much fun stuff you can...
CONTINUE READINGSome days the amount of work on your to do list seems overwhelming, doesn’t it? Today I decided that a little cafe sketching would be the right thing to slow my pace a little and a really nice organic earl tea and some cake hit the spot as well. So Pablo & Rusty was it....
CONTINUE READINGLast week I was in the Rocks – casing the joint for my upcoming classes on Sketching architecture and getting excited at all the options available there! One of my favourite buildings in the Rocks area is the Australasian Steam Navigation Company building. “An unusually picturesque and exuberant” polychromic brick building by William Wardell (quote...
CONTINUE READINGNow this might start some discussion… but I just want to share why I prefer to take photos on my iphone of my sketches in the full sun not in the shade. These are all taken on my iphone 5 without any adjustment at all and all taken in late spring bright Sydney middle of...
CONTINUE READINGFor the last few months I have had an orthodontic torture device in my mouth that has made speaking very hard work…and some words nearly impossible to say- ‘cute’ was one of them. My rotator is out and I am anxiously awaiting stage 2 tomorrow… but thought I would celebrate my 24 hours of being...
CONTINUE READINGFirst two spreads of my zeta book..and some comments. – The paper is SO different from what I am used to but it has to be the nicest pen my lamy has ever come across! – Using a spiral bound book is a huge change… but without intending to I tried to connect the two...
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