As mentioned in the last article, I was very excited to teach a workshop for the USK Wellington 10th birthday weekend – I always love getting an opportunity to teach how to sketch with shapes. I had two wonderful groups who did some great work in very trying conditions. The weather was cold and windy...
CONTINUE READINGI spent 12 wonderful days in Wellington during January. The reason for the trip was to teach at a 10th birthday event for Urban Sketchers Wellington (huge thanks to Andrew James and the amazing admin of USK Wellington for inviting me and organising such a great event.) New Zealand has many beautiful natural wonders but...
CONTINUE READINGDuring January we were using some unused supplies inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon! It was such a great monthly theme and fun to see a range of different work inside the community. I decided to spend some weeks getting to know Inktense pencils. I bought a 72 set many years ago and although...
CONTINUE READINGLast month we were focusing on the theme of Red inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon. There were a few reasons why I chose this for our monthly theme… Obviously, it is a seasonal colour during December but it’s also my least-used hue! So I was looking forward to incorporating more red into my...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve got quite a lot of everyday sketching to catch up on… and so today I want to share a few sketchbook pages from November! The theme inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon was composition and I was particularly keen to discover ways of making my morning local sketches more interesting. There were a...
CONTINUE READINGAs December rapidly comes to an end, one of my favourite rituals is revisiting all my sketchbooks from the past year… 2025 was a good year for me – I filled 20 sketchbooks! This represents significantly more sketching than the last few years thanks to my 9-week European trip which accounts for 9 of the...
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