I’m having a little break at the beach – breathing in the fresh air, walking on the sand, watching the crashing waves and… doing lots of sketching! As I’ve sketched these beaches many times before, I trying a lot of new experiments. So I’ll be having a break from publishing of articles here on...
CONTINUE READINGI don’t often get an opportunity to sketch the working side of a coffee machine. Normally… 1. I’m looking at the outside face and can only see the coffee cups on top and the heads of the baristas. 2. If I do get a view of the working side, there is too much activity...
CONTINUE READINGI spent a number of years of my life living in Epping and earlier this week I had a spare 1.5 hours to explore its streets. I haven’t been back since I left 7.5 years ago, and there have been a lot of changes. Not one of the 3 cafes or the 3 Thai restaurants...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I had another visit to Cockatoo Island with a sketcher from California. This time, I was with Laurie Wigham, who looked after me so well during my visits to San Francisco in 2017 and 2018 (including a very special sketching adventure in a Frank Lloyd Wright building). We had a fabulous day of...
CONTINUE READINGI finally got around to sketching a local jacaranda tree. I sketched this house in August when the jacaranda’s leaves were yellow (I love these trees when they are losing their leaves), and I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to park my car opposite and use my purple hues. The jacarandas have been especially nice...
CONTINUE READINGA short article today… just simply sharing a teacup sketch I did this week during a quiet moment. This vintage cup was given to me a few months after I finished my Teacups course last year. It has what I consider a great pattern for sketching – a pattern that can be easily interpreted in...
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