Liz Steel

#Colour4LifeWorkshop (and livestream)

August 15, 2022 | 4 Comments

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Workshops

Just a quick article today to let you all know that I’m teaching two short free workshops in Newcastle for Faber Castell Australia as part of #Colour4Life 2022. I’ll be sharing essential skills for sketching architecture (a condensed version of the main concepts explained in my Buildings course) and will be demonstrating how to add...

Watercolour Marker mixing

August 12, 2022 | Leave your thoughts

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Everyday Sketching Pens and Markers

When I start using new sketching tools I typically alternate between urban sketching and explorations at home. When I’m sketching on location I normally just make a snap decision and start adding colour so the results are not always 100% successful. So I always try to follow up when I’m back home with some mixing...

Recent Sketches: Another break from watercolour?

August 10, 2022 | 8 Comments

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Everyday Sketching Pens and Markers

Guess what? I decided a few days ago to put my watercolour paints away for a few weeks.Does this come as a surprise? As I’m currently spending time getting to know some of Faber Castell’s markers it makes sense to use them exclusively so that I can test them in a range of different situations....

A little Australian Architecture in watercolour markers

August 8, 2022 | 4 Comments

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Architecture Sketching Pens and Markers You may also like

In the past week I’ve been having lots of fun getting to know two different types of water-soluble markers from the Faber Castell range (The Gold Faber Aqua Markers and the Albrecht Durer Watercolour Markers) and exploring ways of combining them with either coloured pencils (Polychromos) or watercolour pencils (Albrecht Durer Pencils). If you missed...

Flinders Street Station - Step by step

August 5, 2022 | 4 Comments

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Architecture Sketching Pencils Pens and Markers

As promised earlier in the week, here is a step-by-step explanation of the Flinders Street Station sketch that I did for Faber Castell Australia‘s #colour4life competition. See here for more details about the competition including a short video. For this sketch I used a combination of ink, coloured pencils and markers (both permanent and water-soluble)....

Recent Sketches: More of the same but I'm not bored!

August 3, 2022 | 6 Comments

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Everyday Sketching

It’s been two weeks since I’ve done a Recent Sketches article so that means a lot of scanning to get up to date! 🙂 In this collection you will find: My usual morning coffee and Village Green sketch when it was not raining or a cafe interior if it was Work done for the last...