The daffodil was just ‘going over’, with petals starting to curl and wither at the edges. A sketch from last year, but bringing colour on another grey day.
Antonia Santolaya/Enrique Flores
A chance to browse through 26 travel sketchbooks. Lots of fresh watercolour, ink and pencil location pictures.
Buttnekkiddoodles
Don Colley’s blog, sharing fabulous brush-pen drawings of people and much else. He’s a big fan of Pitt Artist brush pens.
Danny Gregory
His book ‘The Creative License’ got me sketching, and his other books have helped to keep me going. He has a wonderfully loose style, using dip-pens, saturated colour inks etc.
Handprint
Exceptionally comprehensive information on watercolour paints and equipment. Exhaustive details on pigments, translucency, comparing brands etc. Essential viewing for the true obsessive.
James Gurney
A mine of information on ‘plein air’ painting and sketching from the author of ‘Dinotopia’. Daily posts, always interesting.
Nina Johansson
Stockholm based urban sketching, with lovely clarity and glowing colours. Lots of useful information on sketching kit that helped to get me started.
Russel Stutler
Lots of very useful information on brush pens, palettes, sketching techniques. Based in Japan.
Steven Reddy
Great use of pen drawing and grey ink washes, sometimes combined with clear colour on top.
The Sketching Forum
Informal sharing of ideas, techniques, pictures and general chat about sketching. Set up by Russ Stutler.
Urban Sketchers
A constant parade of individual responses to the challenge of urban sketching. Always good for some inspiration, a new approach to try…
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