I’m just back from a wonderful 1.5 weeks at Port Macquarie – a beautiful coastal town 4 hours’ drive north of Sydney. I’ve visited this region of New South Wales many times throughout my life (my dad grew up in the area) and it’s a place with significance for my sketching. I started my first...
CONTINUE READINGI’m away at Port Macquarie for a little break. It’s so good to be back – catching up with friends and sketching the beaches in this lovely part of NSW. I normally use an A4 Moleskine sketchbook when I come to Port Macquarie but this time I’m using a smaller 9×6 hardcover Alpha book. It’s...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I did this baroque sketch (of S Maria in Campitelli in Rome) using similar techniques to the workshop that I’m teaching inside the Sketching Retreat online event… which begins tomorrow! I started with the structure, used some fun colours, and added the details last using my Kakimori Dip Pen. This nib has a...
CONTINUE READINGAs much as I love sketching in my local area, every now and then I just feel as if I need to tackle something more architectural. So earlier in the week, I headed into The City for a few hours. I ended up in Hyde Park (during the lunch hour) and decided to do...
CONTINUE READINGFor the last few weeks I’ve been focusing on combining watercolour with Goldfaber Aqua Markers, but a few days ago I decided to throw coloured pencils into the mix. So this article contains some of my daily sketches where I’ve drawn with ink, then added some coloured pencil texture, then colour and/or texture with markers...
CONTINUE READINGIn the past week, I’ve been focusing on Cobalt Blue and how I use it in my everyday sketching. This has been prompted by the current Watercolour On Location lesson – Value and Colour – and recent discussions within the classroom and livestreams about shadow washes. This is what I wrote about Cobalt Blue when...
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