Getting back into the Groove
Since I started my new book on Tuesday (using one of my standard Daler Rowney Ebony books) and having a week off sketching… I am getting back into the groove. In fact this week was the first time that I got out every day during my lunchbreak and did a sketch – here are...
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Big Trip 2010: Isle of Skye
November 12, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
While I was sketching in Portree the bear made some friends – first one girl came to talk to me and then the whole gang. They were setting up for a highland ball in a nearby hall (not related to the church that I sketched on the right side) I don’t know if any of...
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A little Venice Sketch Therapy
November 11, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
Isn’t just Rome sketches that hit the spot for me… how about a magnificent Palace on the Grand Canal that was too hard to sketch on location…. My favourite is Palazzo Grimani by Sanmicheli!
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Post Trip Restlessness and sketching my sketchbooks
November 10, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
just a quick sketch from a photo from my recent time in Rome – done in 15 minutes late at night last night! Having a minor sketch crisis (more below) at the moment and this just really helped me… nothing like a bit of Roman sketch therapy! This page is my just rambling about total...
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Earl Greys of Crows Nest 01 - Bean Drinking
November 10, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
Starting a new series in an attempt to: 1. get me out of the office more at lunchtime 2. sketch what I enjoy sketching during the week 3. break this silly attitude ‘there is nothing much of interest in Crows Nest to sketch’ (of course translated to post-big-trip-Liz-talk this is ‘there is no baroque buildings...
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