Sorry… I just can’t help myself can I??? Big day planned but I was getting distracted this morning. As I recently found a brand new new ochre watercolour pencil on my desk I decided that I wanted to use for the outlines. Was very much fun. On the left – trip prep idea… To take...
CONTINUE READINGSorry about the blurry photo… (I didn’t look at the iphone photo carefully before sending it straight here!) Just to let you know that I am about to release a new blurb book. This time is it simply a copy of one of my sketchbooks from my big 11 week trip in 2010. A week...
CONTINUE READINGWell, wasn’t quite up for a full day of my food diary today… but I did do dinner. Using a dark brown derwent artist coloured pencil today… hmmm, this has potential as an alternative to a graphite pencil! It is VERY important to me to be able to develop sketching techniques that allow me to...
CONTINUE READINGMost of you know that I love to draw my food (not just my cups of tea and scones/cakes!) but some of you might not know that 4 years ago I drew everything that I ate for an entire month. As part of a maintenance program after a serious weight loss diet, I was supposed...
CONTINUE READINGHere are close ups of some of those sketches of Palladio’s Tempietto Barbaro that I did last week. In recent weeks I have been experimenting with ways that I can sketch complicated buildings in a looser way (so that I am not stressing about perspective so much) Of course, being an architect, I do have...
CONTINUE READINGA little quick lunchtime sketching of my favourite Crows Nest Building – the old CBC bank. A few thoughts from today’s 30 minutes sketching session at lunchtime … 1.it is possible to have a quality sketching session (I just have to plan for it) 2. there are some great spots to sketch in Crows...
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