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- 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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Beetle and hornet
I found these beautiful corpses in the garden during a very hot and dry spell. Fountain pen with carbon ink, watercolour, A5
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Fresh and not
A pair of lemons, one fresh, one not. Lit by 3 spots so 3 layers of shadow, and bright highlights courtesy of white correction pen. Fountain pen with Lexington Grey ink, watercolour, white correction pen, A6
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Desktop
Objects on the top of my desk including a life-size model skull. The skull’s a favourite subject last thing at night when I’ve not managed to draw anything during the day… Fountain pen, grey Zig ‘real brush’ pens, A6
Old favourite
My everyday carry before I started sketching… Fountain pen and grey Zig ‘real brush’ pen, A6.
4 colour biro
Using a 4 colour Bic biro to build up tone and colour (slightly cheating as I used a bit of yellow biro too…). It was interesting to see the cumulative effect of a fairly limited range of colours. A very … Continue reading