I’m honoured to have been featured in an article on Urban Sketching inside the PleinAir Magazine (December 2022 – January 2023). The issue has been out for a while but I just received my copy in the mail. It’s very cool to be included in this article along with my friends Jane Blundell, Suma CM...
CONTINUE READINGTime to bring you up to date with my sketching and sketchbook pages from the last few weeks. I’ve been… continuing with my mixed media experiments – every day I try something slightly different visiting Lane Cove National Park a bit more regularly and getting back to some FLora ID enjoying my new sketch&walk routine...
CONTINUE READINGEven if it’s raining I still prefer to be outside sketching than staying home or going to a cafe. There is really only one spot in my local area I can comfortably sit on a wet day (a taxi stand) and so it’s easy to get a bit bored with the views from it. But...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I decided to start a new sketch & walk routine. I put together a mini-kit of a few coloured pencils and then grabbed a spiral Strathmore Toned Tan book. The idea is to do a really quick sketch standing up during my daily walk. The goal of the walk is exercise, so any...
CONTINUE READINGIf you don’t already know, I normally start a new sketchbook by documenting my palette (and/or my sketching kit). I’ve been doing this since 2009 and even have a tag “Title Page‘ if you want to explore more. Not only does this habit take away the dilemma of what to put on the first page...
CONTINUE READINGIn recent weeks I’ve been exploring ways of beginning my sketches with marker shapes. And I’m having a lot of fun experimenting with different colour schemes under my watercolour washes. I started doing this in December as a natural development of the work I was doing during my trip to Port Macquarie. In fact ever...
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