Tag: Watercolour
Sketching: Battle of the Boats
Different approaches I’ve taken to sketching Portuguese boats.

Day 6-10 of The 100 Day Project
10 days into my 100 day Project and I’m learning how to improve my 15-minute building sketches.

Travel Painting Kit for Turkey
My very paired-down art kit for a 4 week trip to Turkey. Traveling Light!

Quick Tip to make Art Tutorials Relevant to You
A couple of tips that I use to make art tutorials more engaging and relevant to me.

Loose Watercolour Technique for Urban Sketching
Sometimes you don’t go looking for your watercolour style choices, they’re just happy accidents.
Tonal Challenge with Watercolour
Discover how I’m approach June’s Tonal challenge with my current urban sketching watercolour kit.

Gentes do Mercado 2022 Urban Sketch postcards
Our urban sketch postcard series featured on the Direção Regional de Cultura do Algarve website

How to Reduce the Greens in my Palette
Here’s how I experimented to reduce the greens in my travel palette from 3 to 1.

Urban Sketch Algarve Exhibition Tavira
My Algarve Urban sketches on show at a Tavira Market exhibition
Street Scene – Conceicao
I painted the same scene in two styles—Wobbly urban sketch and precise studio sketch.

Tekenuurtje Weekly Art Challenge
I joined #tekenuurtje for the first time this week. It’s one of the few Draw This in Your Style challenges that features people.

Algarve Urban Sketching Event in Tavira
A recap of my first urban sketching event with the Algarve group at the Tavira Market

Forget Technical and Get Creative with your Watercolours
How not to get overwhelmed with TMI about the technical side of watercolour.

Culver City Stairs for Exercise and Inspiration
I thought this local hiking trail would be good exercise. Turns out it’s good for creativity too.
Self-portrait with a Face Mask
Watercolour and pen self-portrait with a face mask.

Are you searching for your artistic style?
Join me as I begin a new journey to discover my artistic style, and get inspired to find your own.

Bookbinding Videos and Equipment for Beginners
I’m gathering Bookbinding Videos and Equipment resources to continue my handmade journey

Bookbinding: A new Travel Related Venture
Don’t let Covid stop your entrepreneurial spirit. I’m using skills I learnt nearly 40 years ago to start a new venture in 2021.

Turkey Quarantine: Salivation, Snacks and Souvenirs
Day 8 in quarantine and I’m starting to think about souvenirs.
Quarantining in England
The British version of quarantining is pretty lax. Is there any wonder that the virus is so rampant?
My Hat People
Created in 2005. Looking back on this in the same month in 2022. When we relocated to Turkey I threw…