As I mentioned last week, I always get SO much out of doing a Group Run-through of a SketchingNow course. And this current run-through of Buildings continues to clarify so many concepts in my own mind. It’s so easy to get caught up with thinking you need different tools or paint colours to improve your...
CONTINUE READINGActually, it’s not Old Country Roses(OCR) by Royal Albert! It’s English Garden by Elizabethian (Est. 1875) – part of a tea set that my parents own. I don’t know which is the original design but they are definitely very similar – both use roses and use the same colours. Although you can’t really tell...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve just completed 8 weeks of Monday-Friday visits to Lane Cove National Park for a sketch and walk … and I’m far from bored by it! I still have lots of scenes to sketch and haven’t even done a watercolour sketch for each of the 30-something picnic areas in the park. I’m still enjoying using...
CONTINUE READINGWe have just wrapped up Lesson 1 of my Buildings course and it’s been so amazing to go through the content… and do the exercises again. I have my own goals for this Group Run-through (more about that soon) but it’s really special that working on my own sketching is providing new clarity and insights. ...
CONTINUE READINGI mentioned last week that I have a new simpler support board and I promised to share the details. But really this story is more about a new sketching bag than anything else. I’ve been thinking about re-designing my support board for a while now (something that will suit the various sketchbook sizes and formats)...
CONTINUE READINGI’m doing so much sketching at the moment that I’m finding it hard to keep up! So today this is a long article with lots of sketches from the last few weeks in both my main sketchbook and my Greenwood. As mentioned previously I decided to use a Gamma 8×10 sketchbook and switch to Sepia...
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