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Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 2: Leading up to the Symposium
Following on from my posts:Initial Review of the whole tripSketchbook Part 1: The first two days in SingaporeHere are my sketches from the two days before the Symposium began.This is a very exciting...
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Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 3: The Symposium Days
Following on from my posts:Initial Review of the whole tripSketchbook Part 1: The first two days in SingaporeSketchbook part 2: Leading up to the SymposiumFinally we get to the Symposium!As one of only...
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Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 4: Post Symposium Days
Following on from my posts:Initial Review of the whole tripSketchbook Part 1: The first two days in SingaporeSketchbook part 2: Leading up to the SymposiumSketchbook part 3: The Symposium DaysIt is now...
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My Edges course is coming soon!
SketchingNow Edges - 4 week online sketching course from Liz Steel on Vimeo.Just taking a break from the mega scanning and posting tasks from my recent trip to remind you all that my new SketchingNow...
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Cambodia2015 Sketchbook Part 1: Temples and Markets
After the Singapore symposium I joined a group of 14 other sketchers in Siem Reap, Cambodia. They had all travelled there on Sunday so I missed the first sketching day. When I arrived on Monday evening...
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Cambodia2015 Sketchbook Part 2: More Temples but more colour as well!
Ok... here it is! My final post of sketches from my recent trip to Singapore and CambodiaSee also Cambodia2015 Sketchbook Part 1: Temples and Markets Initial Review of the whole tripSingapore2015...
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My Pointless Perspective workshop - with downloadable handout!
It was a complete honour and thrill to be teaching again this year at the Urban Sketchers Symposium, and my workshop “Pointless Perspective and Coloured Shapes” was really Part 2 from what I taught...
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Edges and shapes: A preview of my SketchingNow Edges online course
Things are getting very busy as my SketchingNow course Edges gets very close… only 10 days to go! I am also getting very excited as it all starts coming together…. I know I get excited a lot but there...
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A new (free!) cup
How exciting! I got a new FREE teacup today from T2 (with my purchases of 2 boxes of tea).I went to get a new special cup for the launch of SketchingNow Edges and, guess what.... I ended up with...
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Everyday pages in a new sketchbook
Just a quick update of some everyday, nothing special, pages in my sketchbook this week. I am really pushing hard trying to get as much content done as I can before Edges starts - less than a week...
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Edges and Looseness
When I’m out sketching I’m thinking about edges all the time. When I find a scene I want to sketch, I first simplify what I see into shapes and/or volumes (in my head or in a thumbnail), but it is the...
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It's On Again! Why I love running my interactive SketchingNow online classes
Well the final proof read of the written component and the videos are uploaded… and everything is ready to go for my second online sketching course, Edges, starting tomorrow!Running the Foundations...
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SketchingNow Adventure: Petersham
A week ago I resumed my SketchingNow adventures that are associated with my online courses. The idea behind these outings is to get away from my computer, to explore new parts of my city and also to...
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Hard vs Soft, Plane vs Colour
With my Edges course now underway I have gone from one state of busy-ness to another! So finding time for sketching 'just for me' is a challenge! I am extremely thankful that this time around it is a...
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SketchingNow Adventure: Glenhaven (and Kenthurst)
Last Wednesday 2 September (the day that Edges started) I jumped in my car and headed north west to the limits of Sydney's suburbia to the locality of Glenhaven. Once again the reason for this location...
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An Edges update....
Well, I have survived the first week of Edges, in full swing doing Lesson 2 and I am preparing for Lesson 3. I am having a ball and completely blown away by the quality of the sketches done by the...
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SketchingNow Adventure: Barangaroo
This week I used my SketchingNow adventure (associated with my online Edges course) to go on a much overdue outing - to explore the newly opened Barangaroo Reserve and see what is happening with the...
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Edges sketch - Raglan St Mosman
I don’t get much chance to do anything other than SketchingNow stuff at the moment, so I thought I would share the finished sketch from last weeks video demo in Mosman (the photo where I had my dagger...
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Should I finish this sketch?
New week. New sketchbook. Mon to Wed are super crazy for me so I thought I would warm up this morning by drawing my kit on the first page. I always draw my palette but I kept going. Taking too long so...
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SketchingNow Adventure: Marrickville
Last week I headed to the inner west suburb of Marrickville (not too far from Petersham that I visited a few weeks back) for my final SketchingNow Adventure associated with my Edges class (the last...
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