It’s been a while since I’ve done an update on my everyday sketching – in fact I haven’t done one of these articles since my last sketchbook! Eek! So much to catch up on. Therefore this article contains many of the pages in the sketchbook I’ve just finished – Volume 168. In this collection of...
CONTINUE READINGLast year I managed to do 300 people sketches (100 ink and wash sketches in a local cafe, 100 from photos at home and 100 line drawings in one sitting) but this year I only managed 100. I haven’t been well lately so sketching on location was not an option but doing 20 marker sketches...
CONTINUE READINGI normally do the OneWeek100people challenge on location, but for something different this year, I’m starting the week sketching at home. So Day 1 was just some quick marker studies done from photos. I’m so out of practice drawing people (really haven’t been around people much when I’ve been sketching lately) so the intention was...
CONTINUE READINGIn Monday’s article, I mentioned the need to be generous with pigment and water in order to get lively ‘juicy’ washes. This is because the most common mistake when starting to paint with watercolour (particularly in the context of urban sketching – using travelling palettes and a waterbrush) is to use washes that are...
CONTINUE READINGOn Monday I shared two important skills for watercolour sketching – seeing scenes as simple shapes and being generous when creating washes. I also mentioned a third important skill which is to see colour as value. This image shows one of the exercises inside my Watercolour course where we explore the way that hue (colour)...
CONTINUE READINGIt never ceases to amaze me how satisfying it is to start my workday by sitting outside and putting a few watercolour washes on paper. There is something so special about mixing pigments and water in my palette… … and then watching what happens when the wash hits the page of my sketchbook. I guess...
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