A Challenge… In Progress
While at my last course, I was challenged to make a large drawing of this square in Cortona. I don’t usually do large pen and watercolour pieces, so I wasn’t […]
Sketching A Soon-to-Vanish Toronto Landmark
The Toronto Urban Sketchers are racing around Toronto to draw landmarks that are at risk or are slated for demolition. The sketches and stories of these structures will be collected […]
Shipped That Sketchbook!
Whew! It was a mad dash to get my sketchbook done and mailed for the March 31st deadline of The Sketchbook Project. As ready as I was to get this […]
Doing It Daily: March 8 – 14
Bought a new pen, and tried it out on several of this week’s drawings. The pen is a Platinum Desk Pen, extra fine nib. I saw this pen while taking […]
Sketchbook Project Preview
For the last several weeks, I’ve been cramming to get my sketchbook done for The Sketchbook Project 2015 deadline. I waited, as per usual, until the last possible moment to […]
Doing It Daily: March 1 – 7
March has been really busy, but my daily drawing continues. I got way behind in adding colour to some of these drawings until yesterday. What a blissful day – me […]
Doing It Daily – February 22 – 28
Almost all my daily sketches from this week were started very late at night, after a long day of drawing for another large project. And most of them are either […]
Doing It Daily – February 15 – 22
This week’s crop of daily sketches were a challenge to complete, because I’m on a deadline for another big drawing project (more on this in later posts). So once again, […]
Doing It Daily – February 8 -14
Doing my daily sketches last week took me in interesting directions – the subjects were so varied. Turns out that I did have to plan a few sketches in advance […]
Doing It Daily – February 1 – 7
A month into my daily drawing and I’m hitting a bit of a wall – the “Wall” being that sometimes the prompt subjects don’t motivate me to draw. And especially […]
Doing It Daily – January 24 – 31
Month #1 of my 365-daily sketching goal achieved! Here are the “publishable” drawings from the last 8 days of January prompts: A quiet moment at home – I was dealing […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan 