As I mentioned in my last article, after ‘drawing first’ most of last week, I switched back to my normal approach of ‘paint first’ on Friday. And as I was doing that, I started to think about the pigment characteristics of the various washes I was using and how they interacted as I placed them...
CONTINUE READINGIf you haven’t already heard, I’ve organised Group Timetables for two of my SketchingNow Courses! When we wrapped up Sketchbook Design last month a number of people shared that they wanted to go through Foundations and/or Watercolour next, so I’m excited to be able to offer a way that they can work through the lessons...
CONTINUE READINGSo it took me all five days to reach 100 people and I didn’t doany extra (last year I did over 200!) I feel unbelievably thankful that I was able to spend my afternoons in my local cafe (in NSW it’s over 50 days since the last case of community transmission) as I’m only really...
CONTINUE READING… actually, it might have been even longer! Another Scottish castle – this time Glamis – done during a Zoom catchup with Esther. We’re trying to do this on a fortnightly basis and we’re continuing our theme of Scottish Castles (see also Cawdor and Midhope, Urquhart and Dunnotar) I rarely spend this long doing a...
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