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I couldn’t get to the donut shop to draw today. Instead I spent a few hours doing a long overdue studio cleanup, and then set up for a short session of drawing practice, using my own photos as reference.
In an attempt to get better at putting people into urban scenes when I am sketching on location, I selected pedestrians from a series of photos I took last year wh...
I love our new neighbourhood but it’s more rural than urban, and lately I’ve been missing having more opportunities to sketch people. Today I pushed myself out the door and drove to the local Tim Horton’s so I could sketch some people. But in an area where it’s more “country” than “city”, even the local donut shop is sort of empty.
Armed with a small sketchbook and...
I’m not quite sure how I found it (useless scrolling on social media, no doubt), but over the weekend I discovered a podcast called Ill-advised by Bill Nighy. I’ve long been a fan of his acting, and the podcast is laugh-out-loud funny. At the end of his first episode, Nighy offer...
I haven’t done a pen drawing in a while and when I finally sat down to draw yesterday my good Pilot fountain pen was not performing as it should. I refilled the converter with ink and continued my drawing but it ran out of ink quickly and the flow of the pen was not great. It was time for a good cleaning.
I flushed it thoroughly with distilled water and refilled it...
Winter arrived early this year. And stayed. We had an unexpected early snowfall — wet flakes that accumulated on branches still heavy with leaves. The power was out for a night and a day. Most of us were caught without our winter tires on. It was a little chaotic for a few days, as the start of winter always is.
Usually with an early blizzard like this, the snow wou...
