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 sees the 4th year of International Nature Journaling week, run by the lovely Bethan Burton, from the Journaling with Nature podcast. This year, the week will take us on a ‘Sensory Safari’, having us pay attention to our sensory experiences of the natural world. Each day has a…
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…
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…