I was on the Isle of Lewis for three weeks and had a truly wonderful time with my sister and family plus some dear church friends. I wasn’t sure how much I would sketch since spending time with people is my priority but I filled many pages and 2.5 sketchbooks. I did so much sketching...
CONTINUE READINGI’m returning to Glasgow for few days in early next month and thought it would be fun to organise a casual sketch meet while I’m there! Here are the details: Saturday 2 August 2025. Meet at the rear/carpark entrance of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum at 10:30am and then back at the same spot...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I left home for a big 2 month trip to Europe. My first stop was Glasgow when I had 24 hours to do a little solo sketching and get a good night’s sleep. It’s been 6 years since I did a long haul flight and I was wondering how I would go. Although...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve decided to use Alpha 8×10″ softcover sketchbooks on my upcoming Europe trip and as I haven’t used this format much in recent months I decided to do a review of two trips where I did use this book. Port Macquarie Trip 2024 and Bathurst Road Trip 2023. I also found a few examples from...
CONTINUE READINGThis month in my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon our theme is watercolour and as I was recently sent two sketchbooks from Etchr (thanks Ania!) I thought it would be a good time to revisit these books which contain 100% cotton paper. I was sent Etchr Sketchbooks – a Square book 8″ in Hot Press...
CONTINUE READINGMy favourite pages in travel sketchbooks are often ones that contain maps, and so last week I did a review of some of my travel sketchbooks to get some inspiration for my upcoming big trip to Europe. I discovered that I haven’t drawn many maps in recent years, and on previous trips to Europe (2016-2019)...
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