Well… that is an interesting question! I love the fluidity and forcefulness, the bold 3-dimensionaltiy, adventurous complexity and all the fun games that are played with curved vs flat surfaces and all the crazy decoration. Today while tidying up my study/studio I came across a print out of a photo I took in Rome...
CONTINUE READINGFor Laure…. and others…. It was a nice relaxing (hhmmm, not quite relaxing doing all the research… Maybe interesting would be more appropriate) thing to do a few weeks after I have been using the Schmincke set… Feel free to read all my comments. Just for the record I only know the pigment numbers of...
CONTINUE READINGAs promised… a quick sketch of the purchases from this trip. It would have been very restrained except for an amazing sale at Cowling and Wilcox in London (with free goodies!!!) thanks to Paul for the tip.(we are such bad influence on each other!) Hope you can all read the details…
CONTINUE READING10 years ago tomorrow, I started a new ‘architectural sketchbook’ and this was the first page. In essence it summarizes all that I learnt from reading Ross King’s great book “Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture” It took me ages to do this and while I was doing this page I knew...
CONTINUE READINGBEFORE the beginning of my trip. Can you remember back to the crazy days of my trip prep book? Well even CRAZIER than that (which had a very practical purpose) was the idea I had of starting my trip sketchbook 4 days before I left…in order to get into the swing of the format of...
CONTINUE READINGOpen publication – Free publishing – More sketches Ok… here it is… my Lisbon Sketchbook in full! My main aim in my travel sketchbooks is NOT to produce perfect sketch after perfect sketch but to tell the story of my adventures and capture ‘the moment’ which (somewhat tragically!?! )is resulting in me trying to sketch...
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