Different approaches I’ve taken to sketching Portuguese boats.

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

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

A couple of tips that I use to make art tutorials more engaging and relevant to me.

Sometimes you don’t go looking for your watercolour style choices, they’re just happy accidents.

Discover how I’m approach June’s Tonal challenge with my current urban sketching watercolour kit.

Our urban sketch postcard series featured on the Direção Regional de Cultura do Algarve website

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

My Algarve Urban sketches on show at a Tavira Market exhibition

I painted the same scene in two styles—Wobbly urban sketch and precise studio sketch.

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

A recap of my first urban sketching event with the Algarve group at the Tavira Market

How not to get overwhelmed with TMI about the technical side of watercolour.

I thought this local hiking trail would be good exercise. Turns out it’s good for creativity too.

Watercolour and pen self-portrait with a face mask.

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

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

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.

Day 8 in quarantine and I’m starting to think about souvenirs.

The British version of quarantining is pretty lax. Is there any wonder that the virus is so rampant?

Created in 2005. Looking back on this in the same month in 2022. When we relocated to Turkey I threw…