Kosovo Landscape My sister bought me some gorgeous Derwent Graphitint paints for my birthday. They have lovely muted colours, and seem to granulate with the graphite particles in them. I really love them. They dry quite desaturated, and therefore really need either more layers, or another medium to give some…
I feel like I am getting back into the sketching groove a bit this week, making a commitment to myself to sketch every day, and try to continue. I am feeling the overwhelm of Christmas starting, and hope that the sketching may help me escape it in some way, but…
I have started to really enjoy being part of a Virtual Travel group at Sketchbook Skool. Every week, a new destination is set, and so far I have traveled to Jerusalem, Santiago, Antarctica and Ålesund! It’s really nice to be in a little community of other sketchers that are all…
I had a lot of fun this week taking part in the Draw May the 4th challenge on Instagram. This was set up by @montrealsketcher @chrissketching and @david__sketches The challenge ran over the 4 days leading up to, and including May the 4th, with these prompts: StarshipArchitecture DroidDark Side 1.…
This week has been a busy week with the boys home for their last week of the Easter holidays, but I have managed to squeeze a fair bit of time into sketching and learning time. I have continued to work through Liz Steel’s SketchingNow watercolour course, and have technically finished,…
I’ve been a fan of Liz Steel’s work for a long time now, and she has been an instructor on a couple of courses I have taken with Sketchbook Skool, so when an artist I follow on Instagram, Patrice Sketches, posted about her experiences taking the watercolour course, I was…
Sometimes I like to do a sketch first thing in the morning, with my first coffee of the day. I think it is a nice way to wake up, rather than checking in on emails or social media, and I also think the brain is not awake enough to overthink…
I have several different coloured inks from Rohrer and Klinger’s SketchInk range, and have filled some fountain pens with black, grey and orange... I never really use the orange, so thought I would start playing to see how I like it! SketchInk SketchInk is waterproof, meaning you can watercolour over…
As a member of Sketchbook Skool, I joined a new group that posts a new destination every week, and you get to travel there virtually and choose your sightseeing sketching from the comfort of your device :) This is my first week joining in, and the destination is Jerusalem! What…
Today’s post is from a photo my sister took of her gorgeous family at the beach recently. It really caught my eye, not just because it was lovely to see them all enjoying some sea air after months of lockdown, but because this is the kind of image I would…