June has seen another couple of weeks of warm sunny weather, with a brief thunderstorm thrown in halfway through! I've not sketched in my nature journal every day, but have tried to keep it up as much as possible. It is good to remind myself that I don't have to…
I recently joined Koosje Koene’s Patreon, as I have been such big fan of hers since I started sketching again, and was really delighted to see she was hosting an online zoom workshop in June. The topic was sketching greens, since everything is so green this time of year, and…
Following on from a wonderful week of joining in with International Nature Journaling Week, I am thrilled to say I have continued into a second week! I am continuing to nature journal in my cheap (50p!) Jackson's A6 studio sketchbook from Jackson’s art supply shop - I think the paper…
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,…
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…
I am getting quite into these ‘draw this in your style’ challenges on Instagram. It’s so lovely to be able to scroll through my feed and see what pops up to inspire me! Today’s sketch was one I have seen a few times now, so I had to give it…
Inspired to keep my daily sketching habit going, I found another 'draw this in your own style' image on instagram, this time by Marta K (@kemartart) • Instagram photos and videos. This was a challenging scene, with quite a lot of detail, so i just went straight in with ink…