In addition to keeping up with my teacup a day lockdown project, I’m also continuing to sketch my way through Palladio’s villas. This has been a Mon-Fri project and on some occasions I’ve done more than one sketch for a particular villa. I’ve really been enjoying doing a little Palladio sketching again even though some...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I decided to use (and sketch) one cup only – my Old Country Roses cup by Royal Albert. The week before I had really enjoyed doing this sketch of it while enjoying a yummy slice of Lemon Drizzle cake (on a Royal Albert) from my local cafe Goodfields Eatery. It’s a very popular...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve been wanting to create this type of index for ages! Having a few people ask me in a livestream earlier this week (part of the Group Run-through from Sketchbook Design) about smaller sketchbooks and spiral books was a good motivation to put this together. As I store my sketchbooks so that you only see...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I used the theme of Gifts to help me decide which teacups to use and sketch. By gifts, I mean cups that have been given to me, including teacups I inherited from relatives who have passed away. There are more gifts than what I was able to get through last week, but it...
CONTINUE READINGToday I want to bring you up to date with all the other pages that I’ve done in recent weeks that are not part of my Teacup or Palladian Villa Projects. Sketching teacups and Italian architecture (two of my favourite subjects) has been great to make every day special during lockdown but I’m also recording...
CONTINUE READINGSo much is going on at the moment that it’s hard to keep my blog up to date. So finally I have a chance to share some sketches from an exercise outing a few weeks ago. I went to Davidson Park under the Roseville Bridge and spent about 2 hours walking around and...
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