Here are my two pages from the last two days. I have been very busy but had started each day with a warmup of a BCN building and testing a few different paints (such as Daniel Smith Moonglow!) I much prefer to be sketching something that is directly related to what I am doing that...
CONTINUE READINGOf course I can’t have a sewing day (or a few sewing hours) without doing a sewing sketch – can I? Once again I am leaving it to the weather gets cooler before I start sewing. Last year’s dresses that I made for Santo Domingo were not very successful – I have definitely refined the...
CONTINUE READINGMore BCN warmup – finally I tackle a Gaudi. I am doing this little series in the hope that it might help some people going to BCN who might be a little overwhelmed by the architecture – actually I think we will ALL be overwhelmed by it. But maybe working out my approach will be...
CONTINUE READINGOn Tuesday night I went to the monthly meeting of the Ku-ring-gai art society. I didn’t actually know who was speaking …. so you can imagine my surprise and delight to find out that it was all about colour mixing! Jane Blundell is a wonderful artist and one who REALLY knows her pigments! Her colour...
CONTINUE READINGmy very very quick BCN warmup sketch from Tuesday morning… This building is near the top of my BCN hit list. I know yesterday I decided not to sketch those on my must-see list…but I weakened this morning. There is a LOT of detail that I simply omitted in this sketch – just trying to...
CONTINUE READINGThis time the last page of the April/May edition of a travel magazine DestinAsian. Amazingly there is a great-looking article on food in Barcelona in this edition… I am going to sit down and read that now! This is one of numerous sketches I did on my last morning in NYC last July in a...
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