If you don’t already know, I have a Watercolour coursewhich is available as a Self-Paced course at any time. In this article I’m sharing the main concepts that you’ll learn. When beginning to sketch with watercolour, it’s common to create sketches with murky washes, flat colours, and overworked areas. Can you relate to this?...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I was an a mission to sketch a few red Xmas trees. This is because ‘red’ is our monthly theme for December inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon. I’ve sketched the Martin Place tree many times (including a few demos inside my Foundations course!) but the other trees were new for me. ...
CONTINUE READINGI’m excited to announce that I’m offering another workshop on Cockatoo Island in February next year. This time I’m expanding it to 2 days so that we can include sketching with edges as well as shapes. It will also give us more time to learn how to create lively watercolour washes and combine edges with...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I taught a fun 2.5 hour workshop, sketching on the streets of Parramatta with the wonderful team from Campbell Architecture. I taught this gang last year on Cockatoo Island (see here) sketching with edges, shapes and volumes. This time we were focusing on quick sketches of the varied architecture of Parramatta. We did...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s time to (finally) finish this mega series of articles from my big trip to Europe in July-Sept 2025. It has taken me months to put these articles together – a true labour of love – but I’m so happy to have done it. Yay! Sharing highlights from my sketchbooks alongside photos of people and...
CONTINUE READINGI spent the last day of my 9-week trip in the French Alps with my great sketching friend Françoise – and it was wonderful to end my adventures with some landscape sketching. We could have gone to Chamonix and seen Mont Blanc but that would have been a bit too much driving and a little...
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