; Recently I have been using more and more various water-soluble pencils and pens. And I found using them incredibly versatile last week in Melbourne. I love especially painting over outlines made in by watersoluble tool and fading or losing the line- this is something I picked up during my Singapore trip (one of the...
CONTINUE READINGAs usual… here is my sketchbook in a single image!…am very pleased with this sketchbook as in many ways it was a lot more experimental than normal. And here is the sketchbook in full I was certainly more focused on trying out a few new techniques than my typical approach which is to sketch as...
CONTINUE READINGSo who uses alizarin crimson and who doesn’t? There is no doubt that it is a lovely colour but ever since reading Handprints questioning its lightfastness have used Perylene Maroon instead. BUT that is a completely different colour, has a huge drying shift and needs to be mixed with another colour (such as permanent rose)...
CONTINUE READINGAs I have already said on a number of occasions, I fell in love with Flinders St Station and got somewhat addicted to sketching it. I have labelled it the “SOH of Melbourne for me” (SOH = Sydney Opera House) By that I mean the iconic building, one that is located in a position that...
CONTINUE READINGToday’s sketching- including an art session with my 2 nephews (school holiday baby-sitting) I showed G how to use crayon resist and then he wrote the longest word in English for me. As for drawing their portraits – teasing each other meant neither of them was still- the little one especially.
CONTINUE READINGJust can’t seem to stop sketching this building. My sketches from a huge last day – with a few cafe visits!
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