If you follow this blog regularly you will know that I’ve recently started using a Walkit sketching bag for my walking kit… and that I absolutely love it. Cecilia Simonyi, a sketcher from Budapest, Hungary, is the creator of these wonderful bags. She’s a good friend and over the last few years, we’ve had numerous...
CONTINUE READINGEven though I have been mainly focusing on Eucalyptus trees (gum trees) in recent months I always love walking past a Banksia tree. Last week I noticed that a Banksia Serrata (Old Man Banksia) tree at the Barrakee Picnic Area in Lane Cove National Park is now flowering with beautiful greyish/cream flowers. I also noticed...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve been obsessed with roofs in recent weeks during the current Group Run-through of my Buildings course. I’ve realised more and more, how important they are to most sketches of architecture (if they are visible). During last week’s Buildings Livestream I was focusing on drawing the horizontal edges of various roof forms while I was...
CONTINUE READINGThis afternoon I was going through my sketching kits and decided to document what I’m currently carrying around. So here are the colour charts for my walking kit – pencils and markers inside my Greenwood Journal (that I carry inside a Walkit sketching bag) and my main sketching kit that I carry in my...
CONTINUE READINGA number of you have been asking for an explanation of how I do my bush (forest) sketches. I have already shared a few progress photos of my Greenwood (marker) sketches here, but today I will do a similar process for my ink, watercolour pencil and watercolour sketches in my Alpha sketchbook. I’ve been a...
CONTINUE READINGLast week during my Buildings livestream, I sketched a view of Taliesin by Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) as my Building of the Week demo. The week before I had chosen Cologne Cathedral (see here) and I think that I surprised a number in the group by saying that I find many of FLW buildings generally...
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