Nervous excitement is what I felt when I was invited to run a sketching workshop. I’ve run plenty of workshops before but they were all work related, stress management, career redirection, rediscovering your passion and the like. This was going to be a “fun” workshop where I get to play. And lets face it we […]
I Like It When the Doctor Runs Late : Waiting Room Sketches
Of late I seem to find myself in a lot of medical waiting rooms . So what else is there to do but to sketch them, because the magazines are not only trashy but outdated anyway! ….you know the ones I mean. I often think, I’m so glad that I love sketching and that I […]
The Life of a Tissue
It’s very rare that the dining table only has a box of tissues sitting on it. I often wonder why is that surfaces seem to fill up and have things piled up on it at home. What is the “stuff”? Why does it just sit there and how did it get there? And why is […]
Everyday-Ness is Happiness
It’s the items and moments in everyday life that makes our lives. What do you notice around your home, your life that makes it YOUR life? Is it a book, a handle on a chest of draws, a paper lantern, and unfinished glass of coconut water, remote controls for the TV and stereo, or the […]
A Broken Finger and a Waiting Room Sketch
So my husband tripped walking UP the stairs and dislocated his finger. Ouchie! …and YUK! It bent right back and he then bent it forward into place again, thinking that would do the job! NOPE! Off to the docs and an x-ray later. …yes a broken finger! He’s ok now and it’s healed . I […]
Colourscapes with John Turton (Australian Landscape Artist)
It’s been a very long while since I’ve been in a painting workshop. But this was a workshop that I just couldn’t miss . John Turton, well known Australian landscape artist living in the beautiful hinterlands of Queensland but originally a Perth boy, was visiting the artist running a week long workshop at the Atwell […]
My Bathroom Benchtop
You would think that a bathroom bench top was just that! But after jumping out of the shower I grabbed a stool and sketched the bench top in my bathroom as per one of Michael Nobbs drawing exercises. Whilst sketching, I realised how messy the bench top was and that I should be tidying it […]
Scarborough People : Urban Sketching
The weather was still beautiful from yesterday, so I decided to do a quick pop down to the beach front, park my car in the car park and people watch. I did venture out of my car and sat on the lawn in the sun but it wasn’t long before the shade of the pine […]
I Know My Toast
One of my homework assignments for Sketchbook Skool was to find an interesting piece of toast to draw. It had t o have craters and features that would require us to actually “see” rather than just looking and seeing a piece of toast. This thing we called toast, for this exercise had no label nor […]