As mentioned previously…In the lead-up to the Live Version of my Watercolour On Location course, I’m sharing some of the Intro Lessons for free. (Sign up for them here) And this means that I’m going through the exercises as well. The first one was to review some of our own sketches, do a thumbnail of...
CONTINUE READINGHere’s a wrap-up of the other marker and watercolour pencil sketches that I did over the last few weeks that I haven’t shared with you. Another Pitt Pen version of the Village Green and then I had the idea to try WCP (in this case Albrecht Durer Watercolour Pencil) under the Pitt Pens (permanent...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I got my paints out again! The last time I did a watercolour sketch (or used my dagger brush) was on 2nd August – so that’s more than a month ago. I’ve absolutely loved using Faber Castell products during August (Polychromos coloured pencils, Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils, Albrecht Durer and Goldfaber watersoluble markers...
CONTINUE READINGAs mentioned in previous articles I’ve been really enjoying doing skies with the Albrecht Durer Watercolour Markers. So I thought I would do a quick study to compare them with watercolour. Note: All of these skies were created using a Faber Castell waterbrush and done on Stillman and Birn Alpha paper. This page shows:...
CONTINUE READINGOriginally I had hoped to do a two-week road trip after my weekend in Newcastle but for a number of reasons it was not to be. But I did manage to spend a few hours in Kurri Kurri which was to be my last destination on the road trip. Kurri Kurri is known for being...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I had an extended weekend in Newcastle – a great sketching location 2 hours north of Sydney (I spent 2 weeks in the region earlier in the year.) The reason for this trip was two workshops for Faber Castell which I taught on the Saturday (I’ll share more about these separately) so I...
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