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Planning and Dreaming
Just a quick weekend post....Saturday Morning: Nothing like a visit to my favorite cafe The Missing Piece at Macquarie Centre to start my weekend - especially as I am doing some serious planning this...
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Everyday Pages: Experimenting with text
Another week, and another collection of latte sketches. I am really wanting to broaden my subject range but I am struggling to find time to sketch apart from my cafe visits - and things are about to...
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Happy 'straya Day
G'day - had a dinky-di time on Straya Day with some of the fam. Snags (but no shrimps on the barbie) and damper for lunch. Then lammos sarvo with a cuppa. Too right, stone the crows, we had a ripper...
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Big News: Teaching in Manchester!
I am super excited and thrilled to be once again teaching at this year's Urban Sketchers Symposium in Manchester 27-30 July.I will be sharing how I sketch architecture experimentally in edges, shapes...
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Art Tip: Shape first for light and colour
I love starting my sketches with a watercolour wash rather than ink lines. I find that when it is just me and the pigment floating on the paper, I capture the light better and get more interesting...
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Foundations Friday 4: Constructing Volumes
This week for Foundations Friday I will be looking at the third way of seeing (visual thinking) : constructing volumes. Most artists focus on the first two ways of seeing, drawing with lines or...
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Work Life: Getting things done
I have been starting to implement the Getting Things Done approach for the last few months and it has been great. I decided today that a Saturday morning cafe visit is the perfect time for me to do my...
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Everyday Pages: Complete Randomness!
Well first off, a huge thankyou to everyone that left a suggestion last week. I have a long list of things to fall back on now. Interestingly enough a lot of you suggested things that I have been...
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Big News! A book
Just a quick post to give you the heads up that I am writing a book! yay!Some of you might have been wondering why I haven't already written a book... well, I have been in touch with publishers about...
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Sketching Workshop in Lucca, Italy
I am super excited to announce a two day sketching workshop in Tuscany in June! Full details are here.Please Note; Workshop is almost full!Like last month's workshop announcement, I gave my newsletter...
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Cuppa Tea Time: My never ending collection
I don't really have a never-ending collection, but it feels like it, because every time I sketch a fancy cup it comes out differently.So here is last week's version of my Royal Albert 100 years: 1910s...
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From the archives: A NYC Fire Station
I have done so many sketches over the last 9 years that I often come across ones that I forgot I ever did.This crazy quick sketch of a NYC fire station was pumped out on my last morning in the city...
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Teacup Stickers
I am 'under the pump' with a deadline today, but just checking in to say hi... and share these Moo Stickers that arrived this afternoon.Anything from Moo always makes me smile - happy Monday everyone!
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Everyday Pages: Sketching Diet and Soviet Bus Stops
If I told you that I didn't sketch for 5 days in a row* and have drunk a lot of hot water during the past week (ie. hot tea without the tea) you might start to wonder if I was alright. But... "I am...
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Chatting with Brian Goulet
I am super excited to share with you my chat with Brian Goulet from Goulet Pens that we recorded last week. So make yourself a cup of tea or coffee, sit back and enjoy. Hmm... make that a POT of tea or...
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Cuppa Tea Time: Just taking it easy
I can only go for so long without feeling the need for a teacup sketch, and this is especially the case when I am flat out.The last week has been so insane that I needed a little quiet time last night...
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Foundations Friday 5: Measured Setup
Next in my Foundations Friday series where I revisit the lessons from my SketchingNow Foundations online sketching course is Lesson 5: Measured Setup.This has been one of the more 'painful' lessons...
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Sketching Sydney: Socialising in The Rocks
Socialising a lot in the last 2 days!Yesterday I meet up with Kelvin from Singapore (one of the official photographers at the symposium last year) and we had a lovely morning tea at the Tea Cosy...
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Everyday Pages: Working at the front and the back of my book
I am not sure where last week went! I think this is often the way after a big deadline (when you achieve a lot in a short period of time). But as always when I look back I can see how much I did in...
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Perspective vs drawing what you see and working spontaneously
As you all know, I love thinking about my art. Not so much thinking about how ‘good’ each sketch is, but trying to dig deeper into concepts. On Saturday I did a sketch of the MCA at Circular Quay using...
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