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 painting with shapes. However as an architect, my brain is wired to think in terms of volumes – I have...
CONTINUE READINGNext up in my Foundations course is Abstracting Shapes. This is a completely different way of visual thinking to what we looked at last week (refer Feeling Edges here). I am pretty obsessed with shapes at the moment – I said that when I filmed the course in Nov 2014 and it is still...
CONTINUE READINGToday I am starting a new series – Foundations Fridays! Over the new few months, I will be revisiting the concepts that I teach in my SketchingNow Foundations online course, looking for different ways to apply them. I am NOT doing the exercises, but only latching onto one small part of each lesson to...
CONTINUE READINGI 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 coloured washes. I think this is because I am purely focusing on the coloured shapes and therefore see...
CONTINUE READINGAnother 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 get even busier from next week. Putting this post together has prompted me to decide that for this...
CONTINUE READINGLast week was all about testing my Faber Castell Graphite Aquarelle pencils as part of my new series Foundations Friday. It was also my first week back at work full time and I really hit the ground running. I immediately fell into my usual pattern of working all day and a number of...
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