More urban sketching...

I've been on a couple of urban sketch-outs since my last post. YAY!

First up was sketching from the Goodwill Bridge. 

I sat just beside the Cafe on the Goodwill Bridge 

and, with a long black coffee close by, sketched the view in pen. 

I was in the shade to begin with but, after we had the morning tea break, 

the sun was hitting me hard to the point where I felt faint

so I quickly splashed on some watercolour before calling it a day. 

This was as far as I got and I'm happy to leave it that way.

I had planned to just sketch the ferris wheel 

but my pen took on a life of its own and, before I knew it, 

it had filled the double page.

 A couple of weeks later, I was back on the bridge for another sketch-out  

at the Queensland Maritime Museum 

which is located at the southern end of the Goodwill Bridge.

I  ended up on the bridge again sketching the view of the museum below. 

I had just sketched the light on the Carpentaria Light Ship when we decided 

to break for an early morning tea.
 

While having morning tea, it started raining so we all decided 

to stay undercover at The Ship Inn and sketch our view from there.

 This was my viewpoint.

The landscape double-page-spread isn't easy to photograph.

I very much enjoy meeting up with other artists who also enjoy sketching. 

If you're in Brisbane and interested in joining our Urban Sketch group, 

go HERE for the Facebook group and, 

go HERE for the Flickr group.

The Flickr group is new.

This week, I'm linking up to Sunday Sketches HERE.

Sketching raisin toast

Happy Sunday to you! 

Today actually felt like Saturday to me for some reason. 

I guess I always lose track of days when Aaron is on school holidays.

I did a bit of homework for Sketchbook Skool today. 

Danny Gregory is teacher for this first week of second semester. 

Yet another awesome klass!

My homework - A slice of raisin toast. 

I used PITT pens in various widths and colours -

 dark sepia, black, raw umber, green gold and sanguine - 

in my Moleskine A5 sketchbook.

Linking up to Sunday Sketches and Artists Play Room this week.

My kitchen rules....

I was thrilled to go back to skool this morning. 

Danny Gregory was teacher for the first week of 

the 'SEEING' course at Sketchbook Skool. 

I can't wait to get started on homework but first, 

I needed to finish my homework from the first semester. 

Tommy Kane was such an AWESOME teacher! 

He's a detail man when it comes to sketching so 

that suited me perfectly. 

He also likes to work directly in pen...

me too!

One of our homework assignments was to sketch our kitchen. 

So, this morning, I pulled up a chair and got to work 

on a double page spread in my Moleskine A5 sketchbook...

I had already started adding watercolour when I'd realised that

I hadn't taken a photo of just the plain black and white sketch 

so there is a little colour on this one.

After the initial pen sketch,

I did a watercolour wash....

Then a little coloured pencil for more emphasis....

I'm not sure that I'm fully finished with it yet....
but I did enjoy the process.

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I recently bought a Holcroft Artist's A6 Travelling Journal
at Riot's Arts and Crafts.
It has a flexible Italian-made cover,
 160 pages of acid-free, recycled, quad-ruled, 120gsm paper.
And just like a Moleskine,
it has a pocket for ephemera at the back of the journal,
 a place marker ribbon,
and an elastic enclosure belt.

My first page spread below.

It handled my Uniball Vision ELITE ink pen very well without any bleed-through.
It did buckle quite badly with the wet media but dried reasonably flat,
 also no bleed-through with the watercolours.
All in all, it handled similar to my Moleskine sketchbooks...
but maybe a little more accepting of watercolours.
I think I'm going to enjoy playing in this journal
especially for fast, daily sketches.

Today, I'm linking up to Paint Party Friday.