This week is busy so here is a quick article with recent sketches of my Foundations cup. As described earlier in the year, I got a new cup and saucer that is the same shape as my original Foundations cup. I broke the original cup but can now still use its saucer with the new...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve had Daniel Smith Manganese Blue Hue(MBH) in my palette for nearly a year now and today I finally got around to doing a few mixing strips with it. When I was in Beechworth in May 2021 my friend Angela Williams re-introduced me to this colour. I had MBH in my palette back in 2011...
CONTINUE READINGThis is a question that was recently asked in the forum of my Foundations course and it led to an interesting discussion amongst the group. Naturally, I started thinking about this topic as well and made an interesting discovery. While I do try to have regular dedicated sketching outings (something that I can schedule into...
CONTINUE READINGI just realised that I have not shared two sketches from a short visit to the City in late February. I didn’t do much – for those of you who know Sydney, I simply caught the train into Town Hall and then walked down George St to Wynard with a few stops on the...
CONTINUE READINGLast week was the first week since August last year that I was unable to visit Lane Cove National Park on any day. We had some crazy rain on Monday and Tuesday and then later in the week the whole park closed due to floods and fallen trees etc. So I’m hoping that I’ll be...
CONTINUE READINGOn Day 4 I made it to 100 people sketched inside cafes… and I also hit 100 with my warm-up sketches at home from photos, videos and zoom conversations. Today I went out to my local Village Green and in just over an hour… I sketched another 100! Whoa! I didn’t actually set out with...
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