Whilst my trip prep book doesn¹t have many great sketches it has been a very worthwhile exercise for me to work in a book that it is process driven not product driven. And yet at the same time I have been experimenting with very simple and quick ways of enlivening working¹ pages. I am in...
CONTINUE READINGI got my copy of Kate Johnson’s new book in the mail today!! I am SO honoured to have some of my work in this book… and Borromini can’t contain his excitement at having his own sketch! It looks a most wonderful wonderful book – Kate’s insights are amazing, covers so amny aspects of...
CONTINUE READINGThe restrained striped covers were SOOO wrong…. As I am planning to include collage inside my books of Portuguese tile patterns…. I need the patterns on the outside. I realised this late on Friday night…so I have bought 3 new books and recovered them. Ah! That is better! (the striped books will be fine for...
CONTINUE READINGFrom my sketchbooks 2010 by Liz Steel This book summarises my sketching adventures last year… I find it almost impossible to beleive all that I did last year!!1 It was lots of fun to juxtapose my normal life with my big trip in the one little book- but it sure was hard to only pick...
CONTINUE READINGI have been out and about all day today… it is not too different from one of my normal sketching Saturdays but I am in the mood for everything to be trip related. Trialed my new bag and it worked well. A great day including some essential elements which formed MANY days when I...
CONTINUE READINGHere is another silly page! My time at home is at a premium at the moment that I have taken to doing my crazy sketches at lunchtime. I’m meeting up with a group of sketchers (maybe up to 20!) at the Maritime Museum tomorrow and it will be a good opportunity to test my new...
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