In recent years I’ve used tape to mask off the edges of my sketches and other watercolour blocks such as colour charts. I’m yet to find a solution that is economical and 100% reliable – however for now I’m happy with using washi tape… and/or 3M(Scotch) Delicate surface painters tape (which is a type of...
CONTINUE READINGLast night we finished up a truly amazing Live Version of my Foundations course. For the last 3 months I’ve been hosting weekly live teaching sessions to accompany the Foundations lessons where I recapped on the concepts from the current lesson, reviewed work from the classroom and did additional demos. For the ‘grand finale’ last...
CONTINUE READINGI want to get back to the habit of reviewing my previous week of sketches and discussing the main themes that arise from my work. In a recent article I realised that thinking about ‘when do I sketch?’ related directly to everything I did that week. BTW Thanks to everyone who left a comment on...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve been meaning to do this page for ages… documenting my entire teapot collection and working out the capacity of each (shown in mL for each square) . And just for something different, I decided to use coloured pencils! These are Coloursoft by Derwent. The pots in the coloured squares are the ones that I’m...
CONTINUE READINGThis 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...
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