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The Best of the Season to You

To everyone who regularly stops by artwewonderful, thank you for your support! And have a fantastic holiday season wherever you are in the world!

Courses

Sketching Courses You Might Want to Consider

I’ve just finished 2 sketching courses online with Sketchbook Skool, and I’m in the midst of another sketching course called Sketching Now. Sketchbook Skool is 6 weeks of lessons and […]

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Contrasting Sketches from a Niagara Weekend

Two different types of sketches done on the same day, while checking out the Niagara region this past fall. Took my time on the Willowbank Estate and went in for […]

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Travel Journal: The Extraordinary Ordinary

While the scenery in Italy is awe-inspiring, I also enjoyed drawing and painting the everyday stuff. I should explain the note above in the Pisa drawing. The pici […]

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A Barcelona Market

I was inspired by my son’s photography of markets in Spain, so I took pen and paintbrush in hand, and sketched 2 of my favourite photos. Whew! Painting individual grapes […]

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Travel Journal: Unique Architecture

Italy has no end of interesting structures – from ancient ruins to the modern marvels. Here are a few other sketches of some of this architecture that I captured in […]

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Travel Journal: From Photo to Canvas – Part 2

Converting more of my travel photos to drawings… here’s the […]

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Travel Journal: From Photo to Canvas

Once I came upon a scene to sketch, in the seconds that followed I’d discover 10 more rich possibilities… and so I took photos of them as subjects for future drawings. […]

Experiments

Travel Journal: Playing with Colour and Texture

Experimenting with different techniques in my travel journal was also […]

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Travel Journal: To Colour Or Not To Colour

Sometimes I would sketch and love the black and white version so much that I didn’t want to add any colour, out of fear of messing up the overall drawing. Having […]

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