I love sketching food! It adds so much colour and texture to my sketchbook pages and is a great memory of times with friends (without making them feel uncomfortable by drawing them – I prefer to sketch strangers!). In this article I want to share a few of my recent food and drink sketches. This...
CONTINUE READINGContinuing my catch-up of sketches from the past few months… Today I’m sharing highlights from my sketches of Sydney City which I do on Wednesdays in the late afternoon before going to a mid-week meeting at my church. Some weeks I have too much work to make it a sketching outing, but I do try...
CONTINUE READINGLongtime readers of this blog (and a big hello to you!) will know that for many years I’ve had a morning routine of going out for a coffee and a sketch (and often a walk too!) I did this even when I was working as an architect (see here for an example)....
CONTINUE READINGA few weeks ago I went to Merrylands Central Gardens Nature Reserve with a friend from Brazil (who had never seen a kangaroo before) and my brother’s family (four kids aged 8-14). I’m so amazed that this free mini zoo exists and impressed by how many Australian animals it contains. It was very hard to...
CONTINUE READINGOne final article about my trip to Wellington New Zealand earlier this year… I filmed a video sharing the highlights! To watch on YouTube please click on image above or here. And here is an index to all my articles and videos about this trip… Wellington 2026 Index Blog articles: Wellington 2026 Part 1: First...
CONTINUE READINGThis month inside my Sketching Adventure Community on Patreon we’ve been exploring the theme of ‘three’ and it’s been a lot of fun. I am seeing ‘threes’ in lots of different aspects of my sketching including: using a watercolour triad (discovering three colours which work together well and have enough pigment variation!) sketching three objects...
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