Once again it was another big month on the blog… so it’s time to do a quick recap of what I got up to.
Due to a lot of rain in March I didn’t get out as much as I’d hoped. But this is what I did manage:
- Sketching Gladesville Hospital with Jane (and some fun new pigments)
- USK Sydney: A big day of sketching in The Rocks and Botanic Gardens
- Sydney weekday outing
- Researching Warragamba Dam because I wasn’t able to go out sketching
I’m wanting to sketch more locally but most of that has been cafe-related especially during the big OneWeek100People challenge.
A major theme in my recent interview – Making it look easy: A SneakyArtist Podcast interview – was the importance of quick and spontaneous sketching. But at times I do an hour long sketch…mainly because I’m talking too much!
The most popular topic for my blog articles this month has been related to materials – updating my current sketching kit list, trying new watercolours and revisiting my watercolour pencils and my coloured inks.
- Current Sketching Kit – March 2021
- Using my watercolour pencils again
- Testing Aquarius Watercolours
- Aquarius test sketches
- Revisiting my coloured ink collection
- Time to give Sap Green a break?
Teacups?
And the month would be lacking without a few teacups, wouldn’t it?
Four versions of my pink cup: 2014-2016
Even though I’ve been publishing a new article most weekdays, I haven’t been sharing a lot of my everyday pages… so I will end this post with a heap of double-page spreads from Sketchbook 143 (5.5×8.5″) and Sketchbook 144 (8×10″). You’ve seen some of these before but I think it’s always fun to see the sketches in the context of the whole spread and the sequence of pages. BTW the smaller book was a challenge and I’m much happier now that I’m using the 8×10 again!
How was your sketching in March? I hope that you are happy with what you achieved!
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Wonderful to see your work for this month.
Thanks Suzanne!
Taking your Foundations class for the first time and see how you incorporate your concepts into daily sketches…fascinating!! It’s also funny that you experiment so much with color, exploring properties of non-typical mixes, and coming up with wonderful combinations. Gives me more confidence and inspiration to “play” with watercolor every day!
Hi Sandy – great to hear. Hope you continue to enjoy Foundations.
My favorites are always the daily everyday sketching! I’m working on improving my own! Love your notes and, a particular joy of mine, the maps! Do you find the maps take longer than sketches?
Thanks Jamie. Yes maps do take quite a bit of time. Stay tuned as I will be doing lots of maps soon.
I was so excited by your wonderful conversation with Nishant Jain on his Sneaky Artist Podcast that I listened to it twice! There were all kinds of nuggets in it that I jotted down to think more about later. I’m going through Foundations again (my third time) and using concepts from the wonderful Sketchbook Design course to tackle more complex spreads as I do the exercises. I love seeing your monthly emails to inspire me and give me more ideas. Thanks so much for what you do, Liz, and your unending enthusiasm and support for endless learning.
Thanks so much Ellen!!!
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