In 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...
CONTINUE READINGA week or so ago I got a parcel from Poland containing a new palette… The Aquarius Urban Sketching Kit. (Thanks Roman!) This is quite similar to the Travel Kit that you can see here. It’s a good selection of colours. I decided that I would start using this palette exactly as it was… ...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s finally time to catch up on all my recent sketches – three weeks’ worth! I’ve been continuing to explore ways of combining Faber Castell Goldfaber Aqua markers with watercolour and I’m absolutely loving the colour combos and the fun textures that I’m achieving. I particularly like the way the transparent pastel hues from the...
CONTINUE READINGI’m absolutely loving going through my Watercolour On Location course again! In the last three weeks we’ve been looking at the importance of considering story, values and composition when urban sketching. And we have been doing a lot of thumbnails to help us with this. 🙂 Some of these thumbnails include: recording the important edges...
CONTINUE READINGI’m really excited to let you all know that I’m going to be teaching a workshop as part of a wonderful event – Sketching Retreat 2022 – hosted by David Drazil from Sketch Like an Architect. I’ve been following David for a number of years so was delighted when he reached out to see if...
CONTINUE READINGA few weeks ago I started using GoldFaber Aqua Dual Markers (prompted by the exercises from Lesson 1 of my Watercolour On Location course). I was particularly enjoying the wild vibrancy of the Blue Violet colour. But for the last week or so I’ve changed my fad colour to Lavender Light 196. I’m using it...
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