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Archive

  • 2017
    • January 2017
      • Starting the new year in New Zealand
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 1 - Knowing (and loving) your materials
      • New Zealand Trip: Part 1
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 2 - Feeling Edges
      • New Zealand Trip: Part 2
      • New Zealand Trip: 7 reflections from our sketching adventure
      • Back to Work: Starting and planning my 2017
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 3 - Abstracting Shapes
      • Video: NZ Sketchbooks in full
      • New Zealand Trip: Some favourite sketches
      • Video: Travel Sketching Tips from my NZ sketchbooks
      • Australia Day: The calm before the big party
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 4 - Constructing Volumes
      • My new favourite daily sketchbook
      • 2017 Art Goal: Get more people in my sketchbook
    • February 2017
      • Video: Finding a sketchbook that suits
      • French Ultramarine vs Ultramarine Blue
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 5 - Measured Setup
      • Trying out new stuff at an USK SYD event
      • Moving...
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 6 - Minimal Setup
      • Last week in coffee sketches
      • USK Symposium Chicago: Lost and Found Structure
      • Sketching People: Using a small book
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 7 - Putting it all together
      • First sketches from my new home
      • Sketching People: My Strategy
      • A new sketching challenge: One week 100 people
      • Video: My Italy Sketchbook from 2016 trip
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 8 - Balancing Line and Colour
      • A French Sketching Interview
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop: February 2017
    • March 2017
      • Edges: the secret weapon when it comes to ink and wash
      • Gearing up for #OneWeek100People2017
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 9 - Composing the view
      • My Goals: #oneweek100people2017
      • Day 1 #oneweek100people2017: Let the challenge begin
      • Day 2 #oneweek100people2017: Achieving a flow
      • Day 3 #oneweek100people2017: Adding paint
      • Day 4 #oneweek100people2017: what to work on next!
      • Day 5 #oneweek100people2017: Thankyou!
      • Taking a Break: Sabbatical #3
      • Last week: Too wet to sketch?
      • Greens are hard but oh so important
      • Review of my goals for #oneweek100people2017
      • Sketching the same view in Surry Hills for the third time
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 10 - Creating a focus using thumbnails
      • 10x10 USK workshops: Building Portraits and People & Spaces
      • Art Gallery of NSW: Dry media and Simon Sinek
      • Video: Sketchbook 99
      • Happy Girl!
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 11 - Working from a Focus
    • April 2017
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Do I finish my sketch?
      • USK SYD: Mrs Macquarie's Point
      • Trying an old-style ink and wash sketch
      • Daniel Smith New Watercolours 2017
      • Foundations Friday 2017: Lesson 12 - Reviewing your work
      • Going from "Being Consistent" to "Adhoc for a season"
      • Cuppa Tea Time for Sketchbook Skool
      • Nightly Sketches: What to sketch?
      • New look SketchingNow and Edges returning soon!
      • 10x10 USK Workshops: Teaching Shapes and Learning Reflections
      • SketchingNow Edges: Enrollment is open again
    • May 2017
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Another sabbatical?
      • Waterbrush vs 'real' brush
      • Learning from the ups and down of a big project
      • Video: Sketchbook 100
      • Getting things done, deep work and bullet journals
      • What clothes should I take on my trip?
      • My Daniel Smith dot card
      • My travel sketching kit and workshop stuff
      • Palladian Odyssey Tour 1
    • June 2017
      • Palladian Odyssey Tour 2
      • Europe17: Venice and Edinburgh
      • Europe17: Isle of Lewis & Harris
      • Europe17: A day in Glasgow
      • Europe17: Seven Reflections from my Italy & Scotland trip
      • Flying with Fountain Pens
      • Back Home: Gearing up for SketchingNow Buildings
      • Back Home: Reviewing the things I took on my trip
    • July 2017
      • Back Home: The struggle to find time to sketch
      • Preparing my workshop for the USK Symposium in Chicago
      • A 'something is better than nothing' sketch
      • Video flip through of Venice and Scotland sketchbook
      • What are the colours of Chicago?
      • Heading to Montreal: Sketchmeet on Sat 5 August
      • One week 100 people is on again!
      • In Chicago!
  • 2016
    • January 2016
      • Some 2016 Planning
      • Cuppa Tea Time: First teacup for 2016
      • Summer Break 2015: My week off
      • On being a blogger - My vision for this blog in 2016 and beyond
      • "Locking In" my palette
      • New Sketching Architecture workshops in Melbourne and Sydney
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Working through my teacup collection
      • Foundations Friday 1: Knowing (and loving) your materials
      • Three years of (white) joy
      • Last week: My pencil testing week
      • Making mistakes with confidence
      • Reflex Sketching: Complex terrace house in Newtown
      • New Ink! De Atramentis Document White
      • Foundations Friday 2: Feeling Edges
      • Being inspired by Lloyd Rees all over again
      • Last week: Taking a line for a walk
      • Can I still do neat? Part 1
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Japanese Evening Mist
      • Fountain Pen Sketching: One month later and a big interview coming up
      • Foundations Friday 3: Abstracting Shapes
      • Planning and Dreaming
      • Last week: Experimenting with text
      • Happy 'straya Day
      • Big News: Teaching in Manchester!
      • Art Tip: Shape first for light and colour
      • Foundations Friday 4: Constructing Volumes
      • Work Life: Getting things done
    • February 2016
      • Last week: Complete Randomness!
      • Big News! A book
      • Sketching Workshop in Lucca, Italy
      • Cuppa Tea Time: My never ending collection
      • From the archives: A NYC Fire Station
      • Teacup Stickers
      • Last week: Sketching Diet and Soviet Bus Stops
      • Chatting with Brian Goulet
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Just taking it easy
      • Foundations Friday 5: Measured Setup
      • Sketching Sydney: Socialising in The Rocks
      • Last week: Working at the front and the back of my book
      • Perspective vs drawing what you see and working spontaneously
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Green tea in green 'edges' cup
      • Foundations Friday 6: Minimal Setup
      • Out of Ink!
      • Last week: Recording Life
      • My Architect's Handwriting!
      • Sketching Sydney: Multi-tasking at Sydney Hospital Courtyard
      • Trip Prep: Fresh Paint, New adventures
    • March 2016
      • New-look Blog!
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Lady Carlyle
      • Sketching Obsession: Flinders Street Station
      • Foundations Friday 7: Putting it all Together
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Hot Cross Scones and working on my book
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 1: A Teaser
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 2: With the Watercolour Society of Victoria
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 3: Sketching Architecture Workshop
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop Sydney March 2016: Day 1
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop Sydney March 2016: Day 2
      • Last Week: Not sketching
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 4: A morning of work in Kew
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 5: Workshop Prep Days
      • SketchingNow Edges coming soon!
      • Experimental Thursday night Palladianism and some old Venice sketches
      • Super quick hot cross bun: Only a few strokes of paint but lots of thoughts
      • Last Week: Creating art vs recording life
      • Melbourne Trip 2016 Part 6: Final sketching day with friends
      • Sketching street scenes without perspective
      • Simplifying Palladio
    • April 2016
      • Teacup week has started again!
      • Last Week: Out of Action
      • Cuppa Tea Time: A teacup step-by-step
      • Coffee Art: My latte journey so far
      • SketchingNow Edges: Registration now open
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Pre Edges Launch
      • Updated Sketching Architecture Page
      • Last Week: Not focusing on sketching?
      • Morning at Macquarie University
      • Sketching the orders of Architecture
      • Warming up to do work
      • From the archives: Ink and wash thoughts
      • Sketching my sketching kit... again!
      • I did it - Now it's time to make changes!
      • Last week: Happy
      • Something different: ipad sketching!
      • Making changes to my palette
      • USKAUS SketchMeet 2016 Day 1
      • USKAUS SketchMeet 2016 Day 2
      • USKAUS SketchMeet 2016 Day 4
      • Last Week: Working two sketchbooks
      • Sketch Swap USK Sydney and Hong Kong
      • Don't miss a single article!
      • Foundations Friday 8: Balancing Line and Colour
      • Stamping Advice Needed
    • May 2016
      • Last Week: Slowing My Pace
      • Cuppa Tea Time: A scheduling error!
      • New SketchingNow Course for 2016: Buildings
      • Exploring Edges 1: Changes in Plane vs Changes in Colour
      • The colour of coffee
      • Foundations Friday 9: Composing the View
      • Thinking about Flaf
      • Last Week: Saying more with less
      • SketchingNow Buildings filming has begun!
      • Exploring Edges 2a: Hard vs Soft Edges and tips for sketching food
      • Getting Things Done with my Get To Work Book
      • Foundations Friday 10: Creating a Focus using Thumbnails
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Cracked cup
      • Last Week: Transitioning Sketchbooks
      • Three favourite art books
      • Trip Prep: Getting in the mood for some landscapes
      • Thumbnails of Loughborough, England (or are they sketches?)
      • Foundations Friday 11: Working from a focus
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Diana's Shelley Cup
      • Last Week: Reconnecting with my sketchbook
      • Sketch Idea: The view when you park your car
      • Europe16 Trip Watercolour Palette Revealed!
      • Heading to Manchester: meeting Richard Briggs
      • Foundations Friday 12: Reviewing Your Work
      • Art Thought: Fighting the Object Brain all the time
      • Last Week: Fitting sketching into a new routine
      • Sketching Architecture in Edges, Shapes and Volumes: Preview of my Manchester Workshop
    • June 2016
      • Art Thought: More on my Palladian Mistake
      • Art Thought: Basic Observational Skills vs Perspective
      • Trip Prep: Reviewing 2009 Travel Sketchbooks
      • Trip Prep: Eight weeks worth of watercolour paint
      • New workshop in Italy: Palladian Odyssey
      • Trip Prep: More Scottish Landscape Practice
      • Trip Prep: Sketchbook Strategies
      • Inspiring architects to start sketching (again)
      • Trip Prep: Testing my workflow
      • Trip Prep: Workshop Handouts and 6 month wrap-up
      • Trip prep: My Sketching Kit
      • First Day in Milan
      • Urban Sketching in Milan
      • Palladian Odyssey Planning Begins
      • Palladio, Villas and The Veneto
      • Palladian Odyssey Planning Week
      • SketchingNow Buildings: filming on location in Italy
      • Short Stay in Venice
    • July 2016
      • Lucca Workshop: Part 1
      • Lucca Workshop: Part 2
      • Weekend in Edinburgh
      • The Isle of Lewis 1: Balancing family, travel and sketching
      • Isle of Lewis 2: Down to Harris
      • Island Hopping: Lewis, The Black Isle and Skye
      • Heading South: Glencoe, Glasgow and Penrith
      • A day at Castle Howard
      • York, Rosemary Brushes and Derbyshire
    • August 2016
      • Sketching Manchester
      • Manchester Symposium Summary
      • From Manchester to London
      • Last days of my big trip in London
      • Back home and back to some serious planning
      • Back Home: Reflections on my Europe16 trip
      • Last Week: Adjusting to everyday life
      • My Salute sketch: Thoughts on making mistakes and being in the groove
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Out of Practice
      • Being satisfied with simple sketches
      • SketchingNow Buildings registration is open!
      • Last week: Why am I doing this every day?
      • How I carry my paintbrushes
      • Manchester Workshop: Architecture in Edges, Shapes and Volumes - with downloadable handout
      • Mixing it up in my palette
      • Being an USK symposium instructor
      • Last Week: A clear space to work
      • Sketching Architecture: Where to start?
      • Video Demo: Sketching Haworth Church
    • September 2016
      • My book is now available
      • Video: Sighting and Measuring Angles
      • Minimal
      • Video: My Lucca Workshop
      • SketchingNow Adventure: UTS Campus, Ultimo and Chippendale
      • Cuppa Tea Time: New cup
      • Cuppa Tea Time: My SketchingNow Buildings teacup
      • The best thing about running an online class
      • Permanent fountain pen inks for ink & wash sketching
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Rhodes
      • Are you afraid to sketch in public?
      • Advanced copies of my book
      • Last Week: Just when I think I'm in a rut...
      • Sketching Architecture: Texture
      • The Official Manchester Symposium Video
      • Sketching at the Planting Dreams exhibition
      • Softcover Stillman & Birn Sketchbooks: Initial Thoughts
      • Saturday's latte with mixed greys
      • Gearing up for inktober
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Glebe
      • Palladian Odyssey - Booking is now open!
      • 5 Minute Sketching Architecture: How to see
    • October 2016
      • Inktober begins
      • Taking a (Le Corbusier) break
      • Last Week: First round of Inktober sketches
      • Demos in my Instagram Stories
      • Daniel Smith event and thinking about colour
      • Update on my Stillman & Birn softcover sketchbook
      • A long weekend
      • Mid-month Inktober update
      • Playing with paint: Turpentine Tree
      • A great book on colour
      • Playing with Line and Colour: Handbag Collection
      • Inktober: Mixing it up
      • Sketching Workshops for Architects begins
      • SketchingNow Buildings Course Wrap-up
      • Video of the Palladian Odyssey: Are you joining me in Italy?
      • My First Sabbatical Week: Recharging my batteries
    • November 2016
      • A vlog of my sabbatical week sketches
      • Last Week: Sabbatical sketches
      • A quiet cuppa
      • SketchingNow Edges (self directed) course registration closing
      • Sketching Architecture: Shapes vs Perspective
      • Europe16 Favourite: San Simeone Piccolo Venice
      • Vlog 2: Making the most of little moments to sketch
      • Hedgren Clapham Mk 2: Is it still my favourite sketching bag?
      • Architectural Reference Book for Sketchers?
      • 5 Minute Sketching Architecture: Looking for stories
      • A bottle tree
      • Vlog 3: No time for sketching?
      • Last week: Sketches at home and from Brisbane
      • Sketching Kit in Action: My Support Board
      • 5 minute sketching architecture: line and colour
      • Vlog 4: Planned vs Spontaneous and a little food sketching
      • Last week: Experimenting with watercolour sticks and more
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Broken resolution
    • December 2016
      • Keeping it simple
      • 5 minute sketching architecture: Using fast tools
      • Vlog 5: Playing with new art materials
      • 2017 Calendar of my Europe Sketches
      • New Sketching Architecture Workshop: Sydney 23-24 Feb 2017 with video
      • Wide angle perspective views and relying on relationships
      • My new pre-mixed grey watercolour
      • One year later: What are my favourite fountain pens?
      • Vlog 6: Acting on the thought "maybe I could do a sketch"
      • Palladian Odyssey Sketches: Touring the Veneto
      • Teaching architects to draw from observation
      • A collage of Foundations demonstrations
      • Cuppa Tea Time: My second sabbatical week
      • Palladian Odyssey Sketches: Vicenza
      • Happy Holidays
      • Sabbatical No. 2 and the Sydney Opera House
      • Sketchbook 97 in full
      • My 2017 watercolour palette
      • 2016 in review
      • 10 years ago I couldn't use a paint brush: How I got started sketching
  • 2015
    • January 2015
      • Cockatoo Island 'Adhoc' USK SYD
      • 2014 Sketchbook Details and my 2015 ABM Planner
      • My first sketch for 2015!
      • More about sketching with coloured ink
      • Seven Coloured Ink Sketch (or was it eight?)
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Balmain
      • My Brazil Sketchbook
      • Lunch in an incinerator
      • In Paddington
      • In a Chai mood
      • SketchingNow Adventure Paddington
      • De Atramentis Document Fog Grey
      • Video Editing
      • The perfect project for 'The Perfect Sketchbook': A sketching diet!
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Manly Cafes and Dobroyd Point
      • Veggie Colour: making adjustments to my watercolour palette
      • The start of my Food Diary and first thoughts about ThePerfectSketchbook
    • February 2015
      • My 'unplug weekend' and a new hangout cafe!
      • Monday Night Mackintosh
      • Sketching The Incinerator
      • In Launceston
      • Tasmanian Update
      • A special day on the Tasman Peninsula
      • First thoughts from my week in Tasmania
      • An amazing place to stay in Hobart
      • TasTrip Full Collection Part 1: Launceston
      • TasTrip Full Collection Part 2: Oatlands, Hobart, Tasman Peninsula
      • Super5 Inks! First impressions
      • "Greens are hard"
      • Travel Sketching Talk and Demo for Castle Hill Art Society
      • Cascade Green and more!
      • Tea cup week starts today!!!!
    • March 2015
      • The Foundations have been laid! Part 1: Sharing the framework
      • What is your cup of tea?
      • Exciting new workshop
      • Four versions of Castle Howard: Which is your favourite?
      • Five Ways Paddington with USK SYD
      • TasTrip: Street Scenes vs Iconic Building Sketches
      • Oolong Day
      • The Foundations have been laid. Part 2: Beginning the sketch and balancing line and colour
      • Two fun sketching day outs: Manly and Surry Hills
      • Castle Howard Comparisons: The Results!
      • Prep for a new 2 Day Sketching Architecture Workshop
      • Sketching Architecture workshop in April
      • The Urban Sketchers Postcard set
      • The Foundations have been laid! Part 3: Heading out on location
      • Sketching at home and around town
      • "Draw Daddy's cake!"
      • Sharing a few 'just for me' pages
      • More socialising....
      • Stolen sketches on a wall in China
      • Even more socialising!
    • April 2015
      • Right hand sketching by a leftie
      • In Melbourne
      • Ballarat, Carlton and Richmond
      • City Arcades and Laneways, South Bank, South Wharf and Fitzroy
      • Melbourne Urban Sketchers in North Melbourne
      • Last two days in Melbourne....
      • Melbourne Sketchbook and Pen collection
      • 'Workshop Prep' and some sketching just for me
      • Beating the post-sketching-trip blues: 3 cafes in 3 days
      • Seven Reflections from my Melbourne Trip - April 2015
      • New sketchbook, new cafe, new project
      • ANZAC Centenary
      • 2 Day Sketching Architecture workshop: Macquarie St Sydney
      • What I like so much about Launceston - Part 1
      • What I like so much about Launceston - Part 2
      • Every Day In May
      • Every Day In May
    • May 2015
      • EDinMay 01: Favourite Food - plus some thoughts about daily challenges
      • Sydney Hospital Courtyard with Urban Sketchers Sydney ... AND Penang!
      • EDinMay 02, 03 and 04
      • EDinMay: Something Hot
      • EDiM06 Something with bristles plus a sketch of my desk
      • Pointless Perspective - an overview
      • A Podcast Interview and An Update on My Sketchbooks
      • Catching up on Every Day in May: EDiM 07 - 12
      • Melbourne Sketches - Part 1
      • Mellbourne Sketches - Part 2
      • Melbourne Sketches - Part 3
      • New Product Review: The Outside Studio "Sketcher's Atelier"
      • Every Day in May: EDIM 12-16
      • Other recent adventures in my sketchbook
      • A day in town - a new tool and a surprise meeting
      • Every Day In May: Draw a cupcake (or six!)
      • A grand building - The International College of Management, Sydney in Manly
      • Swords and Daggers
      • First thoughts: W&N Water Colour Markers
      • My Melbourne Sketchbook in Full
      • Sketching the (ugly) everyday scenes of life - and finding time to do so!
      • Why Bother? Part 1: Pushing yourself for a challenge
      • Not pushing yourself!
      • Book Review: The Urban Sketcher by Marc Taro Holmes
      • Friday evening in Newtown
    • June 2015
      • Why Bother? Part 2: When you don't have the time
      • Sticking to my new resolution
      • Sketching between appointments - cafe and car
      • SketchingNow Foundations Course coming back soon!
      • A lovely long weekend
      • Tea with Alice
      • Two quiet days: tea and cake sketches
      • SG Trip Prep 1: Palette Considerations and a few books
      • SG Trip Prep 2: Reviewing previous travel sketchbooks
      • Sketching 100 People in a Week - can I do it?
      • The blue door: A sketch I forgot to share at the time
      • 12 weeks of Foundations Handouts
      • Public Sydney: An AMAZING book!
      • Teacup week is starting again
      • Barangaroo Day and People Sketching
      • Busy busy SketchingNow but not sketching now
      • Foundations Self Directed Course Registration Now Open!
      • Post-launch wind down sketch
      • Perspective Workshop Prep
      • My work in two recent publications
    • July 2015
      • The last few days
      • My Central Station Sketches and a testing a new Sketcher's Atelier
      • New SketchingNow Course: edges is open for Registration
      • Not sketching?
      • Setting up a watercolour palette
      • Travelling with Ink
      • Trip Prep: Sketching my Kit WIP
      • The last few days... thaks to Instagram
      • In Singapore
      • Video from my first day in Singapre
      • Things are busy in Singapore!
    • August 2015
      • Back Home!
      • SingaporeCambodia 2015: Initial review of my big trip
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 1: The first two days
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 2: Leading up to the Symposium
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 3: The Symposium Days
      • Singapore 2015 Sketchbook part 4: Post Symposium Days
      • My Edges course is coming soon!
      • Cambodia2015 Sketchbook Part 1: Temples and Markets
      • Cambodia2015 Sketchbook Part 2: More Temples but more colour as well!
      • My Pointless Perspective workshop - with downloadable handout!
      • Edges and shapes: A preview of my SketchingNow Edges online course
      • A new (free!) cup
      • Everyday pages in a new sketchbook
      • Edges and Looseness
    • September 2015
      • It's On Again! Why I love running my interactive SketchingNow online classes
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Petersham
      • Hard vs Soft, Plane vs Colour
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Glenhaven (and Kenthurst)
      • An Edges update....
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Barangaroo
      • Edges sketch - Raglan St Mosman
      • Should I finish this sketch?
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Marrickville
      • Recent Edges sketches
      • Palette Update!!!
      • Getting back to normal life
      • Old and New - More everyday sketches
    • October 2015
      • Travel Sketching: My thoughts and a few questions!
      • A Saturday that feels like a Saturday
      • Travel Sketching Workshop in Launceston
      • Launceston (and Workshop) Sketches
      • Changing my 'fad' colour
      • Updated Current Sketching Tools Page
      • New Book: Creative Sketching Workshop
      • New Teacup Era
      • Adult Coloring Books 1: An initial review
      • Lightening my Load
      • Tidying Up: Good feelings and sobering thoughts
      • I love my work: A Curious Interested Interview
      • Adult Coloring Books 2: Someone's else lines, old insecurities and my style
      • My Great Escape
    • November 2015
      • Back from Norfolk Island
      • Norfolk Island Part 1: Summary of my trip
      • Norfolk Island Part 2: Unplugging and having time to think
      • Norfolk Island Part 3: Struggles with a new sketchbook
      • Norfolk Island Part 4: Establishing a Rhythm?
      • Norfolk Island Part 5: Trying to stick to my quota
      • Norfolk Island Part 6: Wrap Up
      • Last week: Walking to and from work and some new tools
      • Sketchbook Review: Pentalic Aqua Journal compared with Moleskine Watercolor Notebook
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Postcard size yellow cup
      • Lightening my Load: How did I go?
      • Sketching Sydney: The Grounds of Alexandria
      • Cuppa Tea Time: The Tea Salon
      • Last week: Too many coffees, being around people and a little collage
      • My Monthly Newsletter (and my favourite pen!)
      • White Nights watercolours: Colour Chart
      • White Nights: First sketches
      • Cross Hatching: Perfect for when I don't think I have time
      • Last Week: Establishing a routine and a rhythm and thoughts about repetition
    • December 2015
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 1: A new series
      • Fountain Pen Sketching: 7 part series
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 2: Why draw with a fountain pen?
      • My (no longer annoymous) morning cafe visits
      • December Urban Sketchers Sydney at Martin Place
      • Last week: December Daily
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 3: Using a fountain pen
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 4: Choosing a fountain pen
      • Cuppa Tea Time: Embracing the wonkiness
      • Last week: Coffee, fountain pens and violet ink
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 5: Basic Pens
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 6: Pens with variable lines 1
      • “Give it three years” and three other helpful quotes from my friends
      • VIsiting Urban Sketchers in Surry Hills
      • Last week: Embracing the repetition
      • Fountain Pen Sketching Part 7: Pens with variable lines 2
      • Fountain Pen Sketching: Behind the scenes
      • Summer Break 2015: Hard or Soft?
      • Summer Break 2015: Christmas Day
      • Summer Break 2015: Boxing Day Family Day
      • Sketching Sydney: The Rocks and Millers Point
      • Cuppa Tea Time: 2015 Highlights
      • 2015 Blog Highlights
      • 2015 Sketchbook Review
  • 2014
    • January 2014
      • Back Home - Making Changes
      • My cuppa before and after
      • USK Day in Newcastle
      • Png:Sg Trip 01: Summary of my Penang Singapore Trip
      • Sketchbook Crisis
      • From Bondi to Mosman
      • Png:Sg Trip 02: The Adventure Begins
      • Png:Sg Trip 03: Day 1 Exploring Georgetown on my own
      • Png:Sg Trip 04: Day 2 Texture in Georgetown
      • New sketchbook: Great morning!!
      • Png:Sg Trip 05: Markets, tea and colonialism
      • Png:Sg Trip 06: Interlude: Thoughts on A Solo Sketching Day in Georgetown
      • Png:Sg Trip 08: Last solo sketching day in Georgetown Penang
      • New Blue Shoes
      • Png:Sg Trip 09: Day with the Penang Urban Sketchers
      • Png:Sg Trip 10: Week 2 - Hanging out with friends
      • Png:Sg Trip 11: Church Conference (at the Lost Paradise Resort)
      • Sketching The Rocks Classes - Feb and March
      • Sketchcrawl 42
      • Png:Sg Trip 12: Singapore!
      • Happy 'straya day!
      • Png:Sg Trip 13: My big sketching NYE day
      • Png:Sg Trip 14: The start of a New Year
      • Colour detox planning
      • Png:Sg Trip 15: Some much needed solo sketching time
      • Exciting Alternative to Noodlers Bulletproof Ink
    • February 2014
      • Png:Sg Trip 16: Another Crazy social day
      • Sketching in Sydney this Saturday...
      • USK Workshop Cockatoo Island with Paul Wang
      • Png:Sg Trip 17: Another Adhoc Sketchwalk and more
      • Png:Sg Trip 18: Second last day - more USkers, more food...more shophouses
      • Png:Sg Trip 19: Final day. Cafe hopping and architecture sketching
      • More sketching classes and Saturday workshops in The Rocks
      • Sydney Sandstone (and a bit of concrete)
      • A day off = more food sketching
      • Sketching Architecture In Brazil... and Sydney too!
      • Exploring The Rocks Classes- Week 1. Starting your sketch
      • Sketchbook Skool... if you haven't already heard....
      • My paint tube wall unit
      • Catching up with my daily sketches for the last few weeks....
      • What is with all the coffee's lately?
      • Exploring the Rocks sketching class week 2
      • Random Warmup....
      • Sketching Architecture: Elements classes in Milson's Point/ Kirribilli coming soon
      • The red bin
      • Printer Painting
      • My recent Cuppa experiments....
    • March 2014
      • One Day sketching workshop in The Rocks
      • My studio brushes
      • Colour Detox
      • Talk and demo for the Medical Artist Group
      • A morning in St Peters and more stuff about paint....
      • Catching up on a busy week
      • Saturday night Baroque
      • International Urban Sketchers in Town!!!
      • Rockdale Arts Festival: Sketch the Cake
      • Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop
      • Painting with Paul....
      • Quick reflection on the past week
      • Wonky Circles are Okay
      • Cake sketching
      • The Entrance Visit and Workshop
      • Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop Video
    • April 2014
      • This week so far....tea and cake, a paint palette and a brick wall
      • What has happened to my architecture sketching???
      • Pre: Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop adventures
      • The start of a new round of my 'sketchers diet'
      • Back to Cockatoo Island... just for sketching!
      • St Peters with USK SYD gang
      • Sketching the back streets of St Peters
      • Monday randomness...
      • Why is everything tea related?
      • Expressive Urban Sketchers Workshop - The Evening before
      • Linelessness
      • Fancy teapot, moving sketchbooks and a blue house(x2)
      • Still Life Distraction
      • Linelessness - painting buildings shapes not edges
      • A change in direction
      • Bits and pieces (a little tea stuff as usual!)
      • My sketches at the end of the Expressive Urban Sketching Workshop
      • Workshops in Tasmania!
      • A mini crane crawl at Cockatoo Island
      • I can't keep the paint away.....
      • Changing my favourite mix....
      • The start of Easter 2014
      • A non sketchcrawl sketchcrawl?
      • Do I ever get tired of sketching tea cups?
      • Sketching in Surry Hills
      • Post Easter- George and a crazy house
      • Can't stop experimenting!
      • Sketching architecture with Watercolour pencils
      • Thinking about Tassie all the time
      • Starting a big ANZAC day of work
      • A month ago- post workshop sketching with Paul
      • Sewing!
      • if only sewing went as quickly as sketching does….
    • May 2014
      • A morning at Rivendell
      • The Kokoda Track to Rivendell
      • From the Archives: A favourite page (or two)
      • Some trip prep
      • Catching up on recent daily sketches....
      • Schmincke Translucent Orange…
      • A very quick sketch of complicated building
      • Bits and pieces....and a new yellow teapot
      • Drawing a 'Tommy Kane' teacup
      • Colour and palettes....
      • Winter Bag and St Peters Kempton
      • Two cups and a pot and a jug....
      • Getting in the mood for Tassie (and a review of 2008 sketchbook)
      • A building I have to sketch again in Hobart
      • Dead flowers...
      • Palomino Espresso
      • Brushstroke testing and a peek into my studio
      • Packing for a winter trip
      • In Hobart
      • TMAG Hobart Workshop - Preparation
      • This week in Hobart
      • Sketching Workshop at TMAG Hobart
    • June 2014
      • Arthurs Circus Painting Auction
      • In Launceston
      • Preparing for QVMAG workshop
      • Join me in July
      • Exciting parcels waiting for me at home
      • Pure reflex vs non dominant hand
      • A leftie's righthanded painting
      • Tassie Trip: First two days in Hobart
      • USKSYD event at QVB
      • More right handness....
      • Tasie Trip: More Hobart Sketches
      • Tassie Trip: Day in Richmond
      • Tassie Trip: FInal Hobart Sketches
      • Tassie Trip: Heading North along the Heritage Highway
      • Tassie Trip: From mountains to Coast
      • Tassie Trip: Launceston Architecture
      • Tassie Trip: QVMAG Inveresk
      • Tassie Trip: Last day in Launceston
      • New 2 day workshop
      • The Baron Castle Hill ...and more
      • Current Sketching Tools Updated!!!!
      • From my nanna's china collection
      • Daily Sketch: Two important tubes
      • A busy week and Sketchbook Skool starts next week!
      • Some daily sketches - in the garden, and a cake or two!
      • 3 gabled bungalows: 2 versions
      • Beyond the sketchbook....
      • Review of the new paper in the moleskine watercolour sketchbook
    • July 2014
      • A building I DID sketch again - Tasmanian Heritage Council Building
      • Tasmania Sketchbook in full
      • A little film... of me sketching
      • In The Rocks on a sunny winters days
      • Sketching on coffee cups for the Aroma Festival in The Rocks
      • My daily sketches last week
      • A crazy work day: sketching as processing time and a photo of my work bench
      • Time to start thinking about Brazil!
      • Moo Cards and some usual stuff
      • Rocks Workshop Day 1
      • Rocks Workshop Day 2
      • Leisurely Lilac
      • Architectural Illustration Work
      • Daily Sketches since Friday
      • A few new sketchbooks to test out!
      • Having a few days break - Liz Style
      • Port Macquarie Rocks
      • Three tearoom visits…
      • Sketch The Cake Workshop with Rockdale Council
      • Driving the Pacific Highway
      • This week: Starting Local Houses series. Big planning Session and an hour in the garden
      • My current sketchbooks
      • IMPORTANT DONT POST OR DELETE - Social media icons
      • BLOG ICONS TAKE 2
      • Morning Sketch & Walk: Local Houses and Paper Testing
      • A Giveaway!!!
      • Sketching Architecture in Brazil... coming up!
    • August 2014
      • This week: Knitting, Waterbottles, a new cafe and a Daniel Smith Demo
      • The Australian Museum
      • Blue Gabled House and the dialogue in my head while sketching it
      • A Brown House and more about my Inner Critic
      • My first newsletter
      • Another 2 Day workshop in the Rocks
      • Straight lines are over-rated
      • Barangaroo
      • Sketchbook Skool Sketchmeet
      • Last week in my Zeta book
      • A coalport cup
      • White House
      • Brazil Trip Prep
      • Daily pages in my Zeta sketchbook
      • Reminder of my Giveaway - and something else coming soon!
      • Having a cuppa with our friends and grandmas - Reflections on teaching at Sketchbook Skool
      • And the winner is.....
      • How to draw a teacup download
      • A few recent pages - a little trip Prep
      • All packed?
      • Rewind! When Urban Sketchers became real: Seattle July 2010
      • Rewind! Portland Symposium July 2010
    • September 2014
      • Rewind! Lisbon Symposium July 2011
      • Rewind! Santo Domingo Symposium July 2012
      • Rewind! Barcelona Symposium July 2013
      • Brazil sketchbooks
      • Brazil Trip 01: The Journey
      • Brazil Trip: Initial Reflections and two big concepts to develop!
      • Sketchbook Skoolers in Brazil
      • Brazil Trip: Sao Paulo Day 1
      • Brazil Trip: Sao Paulo Day 2
      • Brazil Trip: First 36 hours in Paraty
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Wednesday
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Thursday early morning sketching group
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Workshop A - The Joy of Movement
      • Brazil Trip: Unfolding a Sketch Story with Richard Alomar
      • Brazil Trip: Symposium Happenings
      • Brazil Trip: Early morning sketching gang Friday and Saturday
      • Brazil Trip: My workshop: Feeling the Edges of Santa Rita
      • Brazil Trip: From Paraty to Rio
      • Brazil Trip: Pao de Acucar(Sugarloaf) and Copocabana Beach, Rio
      • Brazil Trip: Workshop for Architecture students from RIo University
      • Brazil Trip: Quiet Days in Rio
      • Brazil Trip: Last (relaxing) day in Rio
      • SketchingNow Foundations coming soon....
    • October 2014
      • Brazil Trip: Back to Sao Paulo
      • Brazil Trip: Last day in Sao Paulo - Lina Bo Bardi Day!
      • Sketching in The Rocks again
      • A day in Manly...
      • First sketches(es) back home post:Brazil
      • Summary of my Brazil Trip
      • Sketching Foundations Course - registration NOW open!
      • The Rocks - 2 Day Workshop October
      • Friday night and Saturday - random and unexpected sketching
      • Sketching inside a Gehry Construction Site
      • Pink Blue and Brown
      • Lambton Adventures with my Sketchbook (of course!)
      • Lambton Rotunda Musings: Do you need perspective to draw buildings?
      • Sketchcrawl 45: Bourke St Bakery
      • Sketching everyday life and making it memorable
      • SketchingNow Foundations Questions
      • Exploring THE Mix: Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine alternatives
      • My recommended minimal watercolour palette
      • Using Watercolour Pencils
      • Brown Ink
      • Sketchbook update
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop in Lambton
      • Sketching Adventure: Lambton
      • How to cure my gourd?
    • November 2014
      • Sketchbooks for Ink and (light) wash
      • Lean Week
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Kurnell Sydney
      • Messy Mixer
      • Creating and editing videos
      • Brown Lines and a relaxing Friday night
      • SketchingNow Foundations:Two days away...
      • A new teacup to commemorate a big day (and some trees)
      • Sketching at the Beach
      • Pocket Brushes and Expressive pens
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Palm Beach
      • Running off the page? Two approaches using Michelangelo and my niece's kitchen
      • Day in the Blue Mountains
      • Crazy crazy crazy
      • Mega book and shapes
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Blue Mountains
      • Eastern Suburbs on a Glorious Day
      • #putyourbatout
    • December 2014
      • Sketching for myself?
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Eastern Suburbs and South Head
      • De Atramentis Document Inks
      • SketchingNow Foundations Course Update
      • Foundations Registration Closing This Friday!
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Sydney Harbour and CBD
      • Coloured Ink - mixing a Raw Sienna with De Atramentis Yellow and Brown
      • The story of my red lines: pencils, setup lines and early work
      • Regents St Mortuary Station
      • Red ink lines
      • SketchingNow Adventure: Parramatta and Harris Park
      • The Flower Tribute
      • Sketching with International Visitors
      • Recent Sketchbook Pages
      • Ink and Pen Pairing
      • Holidays!!
      • Merry Christmas!
      • Christmas Eve Urban Sketching with coloured inks
      • A few quiet days - Christmas 2014 and a few references to cricket
      • Seeing the old year out quietly…
  • 2013
    • January 2013
      • More cafe sketching .....
      • My sketch of the fire station
      • For me this is the image if Singapore
      • Food food food - Singapore is all about food
      • Now this was a lot of fun ...
      • What a place to visit last in Singapore
      • Caught mid sketch in a passing shower
      • Last afternoon - redoing an earlier sketch
      • Final SG dinner (at airport) which was sketch free
      • Back at T2 working large and wet
      • I am in experimentation mode!
      • Singapore Trip: Getting there
      • this timber house is safe(relatively) from bushfire
      • Singapore Trip first day- Sketchwalk in Tiong Bahru
      • Singapore Trip - Chrstmas Eve
      • Singapore Trip - Chrstmas Eve
      • Can I have salt with my tea please?
      • Tiong Bahru Sketchwalk
      • Singapore Trip - Xmas Day
      • Singapore Trip - Teacrawl day
      • USK Sydney at Pyrmont
      • Singapore Trip - Shophouse Day
      • Singapore Trip - My big day
      • Singapore Trip - Bedok Sketchwalk etc
      • Singapore Trip - New Years Eve
      • Singapore Trip - New Years Day
      • Singapore Trip - The last day
      • Singapore Sketchbook in Full!
      • 38th Chatcrawl today....
      • At the beach
      • Overcast morning at the beach
      • Rocks are the architecture of the beach
      • Happy Australia Day to everyone!!!
      • Australia Day afternoon
      • Evening painting experiments
      • A liitle wild for my swim today
      • After the storm
      • Rocks and remnant seafoam
    • February 2013
      • I am not sure I want to go home.....
      • Back Home from Port Macquarie!
      • All my Port Macquarie Seascapes
      • Tea and Treasures
      • Good to get back into morning sketch and walk routine
      • USK SYD in Pyrmont
      • A break!!! From Inklines and much more!
      • Out and About sketching classes
      • My new Stillman and Birn Alpha Sketchbook
      • Chatting with Danny
      • Out and About Class Week 3 Thursday
      • Out and About sketching again with Erin Hills class
      • Using my lamy pen again....
      • Tea on a Floral Tray
      • Tea and Rivendell
      • Revisiting Rivendell.....
      • New style...
      • Two nights worth of sketching....
      • Friday night Baroque
      • Saturday evening Landscape
      • A quiet day at home
      • Sketch your Cake Class
      • More fun with watercolour and watercolour pencils
      • Bungalow
    • March 2013
      • Friday NIght Baroque with dissolving lines
      • USK SYD March event on Cockatoo Island in the rain
      • T2 with a brand new brush
      • From Alpha to Beta
      • First journal pages in my Beta book
      • Newtown masterpiece
      • The wait is over
      • Beta vs Alpha and a cute teapot
      • Watercolour vs Marker
      • Sketching interiors
      • Featured on a great drawing blog!
      • Just add water and sparkle
      • More versions of the same interior
      • More interior versions....
      • In Manly Casing the Joint - WHY?
      • A small world.....
      • BCN trip prep has begun
      • Bungalow In Water Soluble ink
      • So who has one of these?
      • Bits and Pieces
      • Monday morning
      • Wet in wet and no lines
      • My upcoming sketching class in Manly
      • Morning in Crows Nest
      • Collecting books
      • Wet Paint
      • Urban Sketchers Event in Sydney - April 6
      • USK BCN Rego
      • Wednesday night crisis?
      • On my studio table morning and evening
      • Good Friday 2013
      • Pretty In Pink
    • April 2013
      • BCN Planning Meeting....
      • Stuck in the Suburbs
      • Semi Detached with notes on the side
      • Looking through my books
      • Reminder of my upcoming workshop....
      • Sketching in Newtown in the Rain with USK SYD gang
      • Going mad at fed square Melbourne
      • Sketch free day in the Dandenongs
      • Coffee at Pellegrini's with Jodi Wiley
      • Afternoon at Port Melbourne with Evelyn
      • 39th Sketchcrawl in Melbourne
      • Arts Centre Melbourne
      • I am addicted to Flinders St Station
      • Lassiandra Season - In the rain
      • My Melbourne sketchbook
      • Slowing down am, crazy boys pm
      • My Flinders St Station sketches
      • A week in Melbourne in a single image
      • Watersoluble tools I used in Melbourne
      • My version of a basic Palette - UPDATED!
      • Freehand Drawing and Discovery by James Richards
      • Manly Catch up.. and pigment talk
      • "Why do you sketch so fast?"
      • Why do I sketch so fast?
      • Manly architecture
      • Sketching and losing weight!
      • Food Diary - Day 2
      • A day in town on a glorious April day
      • The last two days
    • May 2013
      • Part of a great article on Urban Sketchers!
      • A beautiful day at Cockatoo with USK SYD
      • BCN warmup
      • My actual palette (currently as of right now)
      • Catching up from last week
      • Manly Sketching Class - Week 1: Learning to See
      • In print again!
      • More BCN warmup and trying out a dagger!
      • A night of colour mixing
      • Looking at a gaudi creation
      • Preparing for Barcelona
      • Thinking about dresses and pigments
      • More BCN sketches...
      • How my lines have changed???
      • Manly Sketching Week 2
      • Updated basic palette
      • Why Blogging is an important part of my creative journey
      • Catching up pn my EdiM
      • Manly Sketching Class- Week 3: Value
      • Friday night baroque????
      • BCN planning meeting
      • Mixing colours
      • Mixing paints with Jane
      • My new palette - after colour mixing with Jane Blundell
      • Manly Sketch class Week 4 - Colour!!!
      • Juicy vs wimpy
    • June 2013
      • USK SYD at Sydney Uni
      • Manly Sketching class- Week 5 Buildings
      • Talk and Demo at Ku Ring Gai Art Society
      • Sad News - T2 Teahouse Macquaire Centre is closing down!
      • Revisiting my Singapore sketchbooks
      • Actually using my new paints!
      • Will you miss T2 teahouse too
      • Manly Sketch Class - Week 6
      • New chair at T2????
      • Chilli kiss and Lemon Drizzle (going wild at T2)
      • Working from Home
      • How to draw teacups (and other ellipses)
      • Symposium Preparations
      • Manly Sketch Class - Week 7 Composition
      • Last Scones from T2 teahouse Macquarie Centre!!!!!
      • Time to make BCN palette decisions!!!!
      • The end of an era
      • Random Stuff
      • T2 teahouse no more
      • London sketches and BCN colours
      • New Pen Holder Version 3
      • Sketching Class Week 8 Play!
      • Getting my travelling social media strategy in place???
      • Trip Prep- Sketchbook thinking
      • T2 adventures at Hornsby
    • July 2013
      • Three Visitors from Scotland
      • Getting Travelling Art Supplies Ready
      • Away for a few weeks!
    • August 2013
      • Back Home!
      • USK SYD event....
      • BCN.UK.2013: Getting to BCN
      • BCN.UK.2013: Unfinished Pages
      • BCN.UK.2013: It is impossible to travel light these days
      • BCN.UK.2013: Day 3 Time for some Gaudi...and more!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Tuesday 09 - not non stop sketching!
      • New Sketching Class In Mosman!
      • Two Day workshop in Melbourne
      • Two Day workshop in Melbourne in September
      • BCN.UK.2013: Wednesday 10 - The Day Before
      • BCN.UK.2013: Symposium Day 1!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Symposium Day 2
      • Sketching Architecture workshop
      • Sketches from a BCN Reunion evening
      • Friday night experimentation (with a teacup of course!!!)
      • A visit to Balmoral
      • BCN.UK.2013: Symposium Day 3
      • Sub_urban Sketching: Draw the roof first
      • Sub_urban Sketching... a new project
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop in Melbourne
      • Sketching Mosman (Balmoral) Week 1
      • BCN.UK.2013 : Monday 15 'Belem Day' in Barcelona
      • Making the most of limited time and resources
      • Boring Buildings... Fun Colours
      • BCN.UK.2013: Tuesday 16. Day trip to Girona
      • BCN.UK.2013: Wed 17- Part 1 Casa Mila
      • Sketching Mosman (Balmoral) Week 2 - Lines
      • Melbourne Workshops
      • Sub_urban Sketching: More on Roofs
      • BCN.UK.2013: Wed 17- Part 2 A teacrawl!
      • BCN.UK.2013: Thurs 18 My solo day
    • September 2013
      • BCN.UK.2013: Friday 19 - My Last day in BCN
      • My BCN Sketchbook in full
      • Barcelona Sketches
      • Sketching Mosman (Balmoral) Week 3
      • 12 reflections on my 2 weeks in Barcelona
      • People Practice: Bic vs Sailor
      • A chance to share our BCN experiences!
      • Melbourne Workshops
      • Demo of corner cafe at Balmoral
      • Last week of 'Sketching Mosman'- but more classes soon!
      • Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
      • I am in Melbourne!
      • Today at Melbourne University
      • Sketching Architecture Workshop at Melbourne University
      • The Forum in Melbourne
      • A wet day in Melbourne
      • Capturing the Moment Workshop Melbourne - Day 1
      • Capturing the Moment Workshop - Day 2
      • With the Melbourne Sketchers
      • Vanilla Slice
      • Testing a new ultramarine
      • Cardiff sketchbook: notes and watersoluble pens
      • A notebook/sketchbook from Cardiff Wales
      • Loose lines but tight hand
    • October 2013
      • Sketching Architecture Classes: The Rocks Sydney
      • Sketching Architecture: The Rocks
      • Sub_urban sketching: Infill Porch
      • A few challenges for myself. Colour Diet and Sketchercise
      • The day before the big Naval Review in Sydney
      • A special cubbyhouse
      • London Day 1 - Starting on a high note!
      • London Day 2 - A bit of architecture and more sketching friends!
      • London Day 3 - A Wrencrawl and Meeting Adebanji
      • Colour diet (of 3 colours) starts
      • Liberty Store
      • Back at Balmoral - Sketching Class October Week 1
      • Final Day of my July Trip - Crazy morning in London and Seoul adventure!
      • 41st Worldwide sketchcrawl details
      • Catching up on last week's sketches
      • Extra Sketching Architecture class and workshop!
      • Saturday Workshop in November in the Rocks
      • Morning at Cockatoo Island
      • Thick and Thin
      • Old bottles
      • Balmoral Sketching Week 2 Line
      • Friday night's change of pace
      • 41st Sketchcrawl in Hyde Park, Sydney
      • Off Site backup
      • My Architecture Sketchbook article
      • Exciting parcels today!
      • Down the drive (and more)
      • My lamy pen collection (plus a ring-in!)
      • On waterbrushes and Triads
      • Balmoral Sketching Class - Watercolour
      • My current sketchbook collection and an exciting find!
      • Starting a zeta book!
      • "Cute"
      • Taking photos of my work
      • Simplifying forms of complicated buildings
      • A little cafe sketching!
    • November 2013
      • Final week Sketching Class at Balmoral
      • USK SYD at Milsons Point
      • Complex buildings are fun - The Louvre
      • Sketching Architecture in the Rocks:Week 1
      • Sketching architecture in the Rocks - the first week
      • A break... (sort of!)
      • My travel sketchbook collection
      • Doing homework....
      • My Sketching Architecture class doing some home-work!
      • Sketching Architecture in The Rocks: Week 2
      • Travel Sketching Workshop for Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society
      • A little late night perspective!
      • Tuesday night sketching
      • Architecture relaxation sketching to Brahms
      • Sketching Architecture Week 3: Perspective
      • Perspective without vanishing points
      • A day of sketching for myself
      • A new precious possession
      • From Zeta to Beta
      • Today...
      • Sketching Architecture Wk 4 - Tone Colour and Texture
      • Trip Dresses
    • December 2013
      • Sketching Workshop in the Gardens
      • 1 Day workshop in the Rocks
      • HIghlights from my trip to Melbourne in September - Part 1
      • End of Year Morning Tea
      • HIghlights from my trip to Melbourne in September - Part 2
      • At Cockatoo Island again
      • Rego Cofee
      • A little trip prep
      • Summary of my Sketching Class in Manly in May 2013
      • Two recent sketches
      • Packing Art Supplies again....
      • My Art Tools
      • All packed (a day early) and a family Xmas (11 days early)
      • Away for a few weeks
  • 2012
    • January 2012
      • Summer 1112 Day 10 & 11 - The start of a new year
      • Summer 1112 Day 12- At home..sorting sewing and cricket on the radio!
      • Summer! 30FR_05 Some of the Thunders
      • Summer 1112 Day 13 - Day in town with Jennifer
      • Promising urban sketcher - he even draws food like me!!!!
      • Finishing my staycation with an amazing park in paddington that I have wanted to visit for years
      • Looking back on 2011 and thinking about 2012
      • Summer 1112 Day 14 - Auburn adventure with Chris
      • Summer 1112 Day 15 - Day with Nick..budding Urban Sketcher at age 6!
      • Summer 1112 - Day 16 Paddington Reservoir Gardens
      • Summer 1112 Volume 1 in full
      • Summer 1112 Volume 2 in full
      • A (shocking) confession
      • A holiday from sketching architecture
      • 120110_02 A special gift!
      • 120119 Diversional Therapy
      • Getting ready for tomorrow's sketchcrawl
      • Sketchcrawl 34 - Plan A and Plan B!
      • 120125 Quick sketch Avenue Rd Cafe Mosman
      • 120126 Australia Day- Our hills hoist
      • 120126 Five years of sketching
    • February 2012
      • 120202 African Tea
      • 120203 Friday night architecture sketching
      • 120204 T2 mezzanine and a 'castle'
      • A million views later....
      • I got a copy of THE BOOK today! So excited!
      • How not to bake my cakes (of watercolor)
      • Finishing off my week with architecture sketching late at night!
      • Sketching with Freddie from Georgia,USA
      • 120215 Lunchtime Kerb Sketching
      • ABC of Home_A
      • 120218 Crazy Roof Extension
      • Sketching complicated roof forms
      • Its all Greek to me...
      • ABC of Home_A2 Antenna Ando Adams
      • Getting excited about my B reading list
      • 120223 Sushi Train
      • 120224 Sketch of The Art of Urban Sketching
      • Waterfall Cottage
      • 120229 Plane sketches
    • March 2012
      • Between Mona Lisa and banksy - constant reader bookshop crows nest Australia
      • Well it now is official.....
      • My "Adventures with my sketchbooks" talk - part 1
      • Guess who has finally got out on the streets for some sketching this morning!!!
      • ABC of Home_B1 Beads and Borromini
      • How loose can I go?
      • Historic Ink pen collection
      • Current ink pen collection
      • 120316 No lines!
      • Friday Night at Bathers, Balmoral
      • A t2 visit with a difference
      • An unplanned weekend
      • 120320 Radcliffe Camera-12 years later and still wrong
      • 120327 Testing orange and red mixes
      • 120324 Radcliffe Camera Take 2
      • 120330 A quiet Friday night
      • The 5 orders of Architecture
      • 120331 Alishan Oolong instead of the Kokoda Trail to Rivendell
      • 120331 Grand Scottish Landscape with a big flat brush
    • April 2012
      • 120326 Full Pan Palette
      • Architectural Elements: Windows
      • 120405 Easter Bilbies
      • 120405 Start of holiday visit to T2
      • 120405 Mixing Homework
      • Easter sketching....
      • 120410 Trying again and other stuff
      • Architectural Note Taking Sketching
      • 120411 Wednesday collage
      • 120412 Another hot cross bun and some architectural experimenting
      • A big day at Cockatoo Island
      • 120417 A keen tea drinker?
      • 120420 Me sketching vs Work Sketching
      • Sketchcrawl 35 - Cockatoo Island and a 'certain' tearoom
      • 120423 Some colour mixes
    • May 2012
      • 120503 In less than two weeks
      • Every Day in May 2012 1-3
      • EDiM 04 A present
      • EDiM 05 Something sweet
      • ANZAC Day sketches
      • 120501 Artists magazine June
      • Current reading pile
      • 120508 Quick inkless sketches
      • Lunchtime sketching - loose and splashy
      • 120511 NYC Researching
      • Loose linework
      • Loose Lines
      • 2 days in Melbourne
      • What is the focus of the sketch?
      • 120515 Randomness
      • 120522 Sydney Suburban Scene
      • Checking my perspective
      • 120522 Tea cup experiments and thoughts
      • 120525 An afternoon in the Veneto
      • 120526 Too much of a good thing... sketchbook vs loose pages
      • 120528 Monday.....Brutalist Beauty
      • Coming soon....
      • More Loose Lines
      • Loose lines BW & coloured
      • 120530 Food Diary
      • 120531 Diet roast dinner
    • June 2012
      • A new blurb book coming soon
      • 120602 A wet Saturday in town
      • 120604 More MOO cards
      • 120605 Trip Prep- The palette plan
      • 120604 This week (so far!)
      • Done a little sketching this afternoon
      • Sketching the Opera House....
      • Trip prep - new pen/pencil holder
      • Catching Up on Friday's solo sketchcrawl - sketchbook pages
      • More catching up - Fridays A4 sketches....
      • Bits from the Long Weekend
      • Trip Prep- How Many sketchbooks
      • First cut... the page some of you have been waiting for!
      • 120621 Unexpected sketching opportunity
      • 120622 Trip Prep - Carry on stuff
      • Clean palette all ready for the trip
      • Travelling in style!!!!
      • T2 (half hearted)
      • 120627 Trip Prep SDQ Zona Colonial Map
      • Tonight's activity is NYC research
      • More copies of my new book soon to be released
      • 101_01 Art Supplies 1
      • 101_02 The Full Kit
      • 101_03 Pre trip visit to T2
    • July 2012
      • Another item or 2 to add to my art kit
      • 101_04 The night before the night before
      • Thoughts on posting via my iphone while travelling
      • 101_05 All Packed
      • My first sketch in SD was an adventure
      • My second sketch of the cathedral
      • From this afternoon's sketching
      • D2 highlights
      • D2 the courtyard of my hotel
      • D4 highlights (as at 5.30)
      • D4 guess who did another sketch before dinner ?
      • First USk dinner
      • Excitement rising as sketches start arriving
      • Morning with sketchers...
      • Out sketching this morning
      • The day before sketches
      • Amazing time at our first workshop
      • Pages from our workshop this morning
      • BB with Lynne and luis
      • Another awesome group of sketchers for our second workshop
      • The third and final workshop. Another great group!!!
      • Great workshop this morning with my great friends swasky and freeKhand
      • Layers of the onion workshop - lots of fun !!!
      • The highlight of the sketchcrawl for me
      • A few highlights of the sketchcrawl
      • Thank you Orling- you are amazing!!!!!
      • Morning at the mercado - mixing with locals
      • This mornings sketching at mercado!!!!
      • Liz Steel being still (steel as in stainless steel spoon)
      • Silliness with stainless steel spoons and lapin
      • Sketches from this morning visit to the markets
      • Morning in NYC with Nina - pearl paint and quick sketch
      • First sketch in NYC
      • Very quick sketch of stock exchange (colored at lunch)
      • 9/11 memorial
      • Evening with Richard - trying to sketch the angelika building
      • France's work in real life blew me away
      • A few sketches from a huge day
      • Sketching with Guess who?
      • Amazing tearoom - Boise tea parlor in the village
      • Amazing to meet Danny Gregory
      • Wonderful day with France
      • Sketching (iPad!) in the middle of the pavement
      • Skyline sketch ... Doing a few of these this visit
      • Sketching with Danny Gregory
      • Sketching with France on the highline and making friends
      • Wet morning so trying to find interior spaces
      • Raining .. But I just had to do another sketch of st Bart's
      • Another tearoom you must go to in NYC. Radiance tea house
      • Someone just had a LOT of fun (from the comfort of a cafe as well)
      • My Aladdin tea infuser in NYC (thanks V!!!)
      • Friday night 7pm- times sq - solo sketching amongst crowds and in light rain
      • Endless inspiration ... The view from the window of my hotel room
      • Dinner with Anne Watkins
      • What a priviledge to be sketched by Anne Watkins
      • New York Urban Sketchers on the high line
      • Sketches from this morning.
      • Final morning non stop
      • Last morning in NYC and officially out of control!!!
      • Stuck on the plane after being diverted to Brisbane ... Hitting 30 he joinery mark now!!!
      • Finished sketches (on the plane) of last morning in NYC
      • Another sketch from final morning (upload didn't go through at the time)
      • 2012 Trip Sketchbooks
      • Trip 12 - Day 0 - my long journey
      • Trip 12 - Day 1 - out sketching on little sleep!
      • Trip 12 - Day 2 - still exploring Santo Domingo on my own
      • Trip 12 - Day 4 - fellow Urban Sketchers start to arrive....
      • Trip 12 - Day 5 - Getting to the beach (among other things!)
    • August 2012
      • Trip 12 - Sketchbook 1 in full
      • Trip 12 - Sketchbook 1 in full
      • Trip 12 - Volume 1 in one image!
      • 120802 Symposium Goodies
      • Trip 12 - Day6- the day before the symposium
      • Trip 12 - Day 7- Symposium Day 1
      • Trip 12 - Day 8 - Symposium Day 2
      • Trip 12 - Day 9 - Symposium Day 3
      • Trip 12 - Day 11 - Final Day in Santo Domingo
      • Santo Domingo Photos
      • Trip 12 - Day 12- First Day in New York
      • Finally get a chance for a quick lunchtime sketch
      • I will be back soon....
      • Day 13 - NYC Downtown
      • Trip 12 - Day 13 NYC Downtown
      • Trip 12 - Day 14: Tea, France and Danny!
      • NYD4 At Radiance Tea House
      • Trip 12 - Day 15: A wet but totally out of control solo sketching day in NY
      • Trip 12 - Day 16: My last full day sketching in New York
      • Trip 12- Day 18 Final OUT OF CONTROL morning in NYC
      • Needing to chill
      • Back Home sketching
      • My symposium sketchbook in full
      • Buying in bulk (tea of course!!!)
      • 120818 Gifts Gifts Gifts
      • Crates in perfect location at Newtown
      • Newtown Post Office - On location and back home
      • 120820 Travel Clothes Review
      • My NYC sketchbook in full
      • My NYC sketchbook in full
      • Ho Hum, I am so predictable!!!
      • The end of an era and trying something new
      • 120823 fun with markers at work
      • Being painted by Anne Watkins
      • Sketching the ships across at garden Island
      • Thinking about my Jefferson Market Library Sketches
      • Thinking about my Jefferson Market Library Sketches
      • 120830 Garden Island Another attempt
      • Friday night sketching - just for fun (are you kidding?)
    • September 2012
      • Markering at T2
      • Markers out on location (and a new friend for Borromini)
      • St Thomas Rest Park with markers (5 mins there, 2 mins later)
      • Wednesday morning architecture
      • 120905 St Leonards Naremburn
      • 120906 FULL colour markering
      • Watercolour vs Markers
      • This Week: 7 Sept 2012: Mad about markers
      • Friday marker sketches - morning and afternoon and printing time doodle
      • Monday morning sketching at St Leonard's
      • 120910 MeganNielson Patterns and St Leonards from the gutter again
      • Someone has his hands on the new amazing stillman and birn sketchbooks
      • Context vs Object Explorations
      • Analysis of what I did this morning
      • 120913 Three things from today
      • 120914 Semi detached
      • Interviewed by Art by Wiley
      • 120921 This week
      • Sometimes you just have to lie on your back and look up!!!
      • Nannas 1942 copy of Streams in the Desert
      • Trying to mix Australian greens
      • White house on the corner
      • 120922 Sketchbook 55 Title
      • 120928 This week
      • Tea tasting at Dragonwell Teahouse Pyrmont
    • October 2012
      • Back again sketching St Leonard's church
      • 121003 Watercolour vs Marker
      • 121005 THIS WEEK
      • Not quite a normal monday
      • 121011 A new sketchbook
      • 121012 This week
      • 37th international sketchcrawl (a quiet solo day)
      • Sketchbook vs Journal
      • Having fun with A4 sketchbook
      • 121020 A few hours at the zoo
      • 121020 Watercolour is back
      • 122022 Morning and Evening
      • 121023 Playground and paint playing?
      • 121024 French Baroque
      • 121024 Grey mixing
      • I have got it!
      • Urban Sketchers event in Sydney
      • 121026 Obsessed with mixing greys
      • Waiting for the ferry and splashing paint around
      • Getting used to my moleskine watercolour sketchbook
      • 121030 Lane Cove VIllage
      • 121031 My new palette revealed!
      • Thursday morning - no lines and thick flat brush
    • November 2012
      • Starting a new sketchbook
      • First spread of a new (huge!?) sketchbook
      • First spread in a huge sketchbook
      • First spread in my new sketchbook
      • First spread in a huge sketchbook
      • First spread in a huge sketchbook
      • Large sketchbook fun
      • Pages this week...
      • 121110 Castle Hill Morning etc
      • Missing in action
      • 121112 Sunday Monday_Berry Is Boatshed
      • Not 100% sure what I am doing ... But sure am having fun!!
      • Experimental mark making
      • 121114 Cockatoo Island
      • 121117 Blenheim Revisited (Saturday night armchair sketching)
      • Cockatoo from Greenwich on a sunny evening
      • Reminder of 1st Urban Sketching Sydney event Dec 1
      • Friday morning watercolour splashing
      • 121124 A sketchless visit to the zoo (almost!)
      • White Joy!!!
      • Back to markers ....
      • Markered Cockatoo Island
    • December 2012
      • Amazing time today at first USk SYD event
      • Wrap up of the first gathering of USKers in Sydney
      • St Thomas church North Sydney
      • Getting ready for my summer holiday
      • Testing S&B Zeta paper
      • Testing out new paper with a Baroque sketch
      • USKSYD Jan 12 2013
      • 121214 Getting Ready
      • 121215 WIP...All I could manage today
      • A day in the life of Liz Steel - continued
      • Last sketch & walk for 2012
      • All Packed!
      • On way to Brisbane (and beyond)
      • In Singapore!!!!
      • Sketches from this mornings sketch walk
      • Sketch walk at tiong bahru
      • Being sketched by Don Low
      • Total inspiration to be watching Paul paint today.
      • More from Saturdays sketchwalk
      • Trying to get myself in the groove
      • Sultan mosque sketching with Parka Marvin and Paul
      • Sultan mosque sketching from a cafe with Parka Marvin and Paul
      • Peranken food at True Blue
      • My first shophouse sketch!!- more to come
      • Happy holidays to everyone!!!!
      • Nighttime homework
      • My token Christmas Day sketch - orchard rd Singapore
      • Little India solo sketch - can you feel my nervous tension
      • Xmas dinner(Chinese high tea )
      • Xmas high tea with the staff at Tian Fu tearoom
      • Sketchbook 1 is full!!!!!
      • First sketch in new sketchbook
      • Sketching the sultan mosque again
      • Visiting studio of local artist and teacher Loy Chye Chuan
      • Chinatown in the rain
      • Cafe experimentation studio with Paul Wang
      • My cafe sketches (Paul Wang) influence)
      • Putting afternoon tips from Paul into action,,,
      • Bedok sketchwalk - my 1st sketch of the day
      • Finally doing the tourist thing (usksg style!!!)
      • Sketching and eating chicken rice
      • Very wet afternoon so more cafe sketching
      • Making friends in tea loft cafe
      • Sketching a very special historic house with friends
  • 2011
    • January 2011
      • 110101 A week of summer holiday- part 1
      • A shelley high tea!
      • A week of summer holiday - Part 2
      • 110103 Off again....
      • Part of Kate Johnson's new book....
      • 110107 Back from camp
      • 110107 A quiet day
      • 110107 A Non Sketchbook Sketch
      • 110108 FInal Sketching Day of my summer holidays
      • 1101011 Just a Tuesday night
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 08-Fabrik
      • From the Archives: My first travel sketchbook!
      • 110114 Daily journal 35 has begun
      • 110117 Composition Liz Style
      • 110115 A few hours in the Gardens
      • I hope my sister sees this
      • 110120 Bits from this week.....
      • San Carlo Sketches
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 9-Montagu
      • 110121 Big Tidy Up
      • 110122 World Wide Sketchcrawl 30 at Manly
      • 110124 Botanic Gardens - Victoria Lodge
      • Mirazozo
      • 110125 A rare Liz Sketch of BB
      • 110126 My Australia Day
      • Can a Cuppa save 160 lives (or even 400)?????
      • 110127 I know I know....
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 10 - E61
      • 110128 Rome vs Bologna
      • 110129 A big sketching day
    • February 2011
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 11- St Malo Bakery - plus a perfect supper
      • 110204 Understanding Architecture through Drawing - how about the Sydney Opera House?
      • 110205 A non sketching day
      • 110207 More on the Opera House
      • Trying to catch up on a few things...
      • 110208 Blue and Broad
      • My First Postcard - From Tuscany
      • 110209 Bag Crisis
      • 110210 Exciting Thursday and colour colour COLOUR!!!
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 12 - Cafe Ticini
      • 110212 Another Huge Sketching Saturday- teaser
      • 110212 The rest of my sketches from Saturday
      • 110216 Photo Shoot Sketches
      • 110217 This week....
      • 110218 What is the connection between teacups and Baroque facades
      • 110219 Another non-sketching Saturday
      • 110221 Distracted by the moment
      • 110225 This week
      • 110226 Tea and Trees
    • March 2011
      • 110302 An exciting Parcel...
      • Postcard For My Walk Exchange- No.1 To Robyn
      • 110305 Three GREAT tearooms(cafes) in 24hours
      • In today's Sydney Morning Herald...
      • 110311 Friday night and this week
      • Garden Sketchabout 1
      • 110315 Tuesday sketches and bits
      • Postcard For My Walk Exchange- No.2 from Katherine
      • 110317 A strange mix and some painting questions
      • 110318 This weeks sketchercise
      • 110319 Out with the old and in with the new
      • Sketchabout 2- Photos
      • Garden sketchabout 2 - Sketches
      • Calling all travel sketchers
      • 110323 Venice Warmup
      • Lightbulb moment - process not product
      • 110325 What a week!!
      • Sketchabout 3
      • 110326 Tara Again!
      • 110328 Tea Cosies and Gothic Revival Revisited
      • 110331 Thursday sketches
    • April 2011
      • 110401 THis weeks sketches
      • 110402 Sketchabout Week 4 and extras!
      • 110407 Thursday architectural sketch and an exhibition opening
      • 110408 Friday sketches
      • Sketchabout 5...plus more!
      • 110409 Starting a WC Moleskine again
      • Calling all Sydney Sketchers
      • 110414 A few more moleskine pages
      • Sketchcrawl 31 AND Sketchabout 6 (final)
      • 110416 Photos from Saturday's Sketchcrawl
      • 110418 Monday's sketches
      • 110421 New friends at T2
      • 110422 Easter at Home!!
      • 110423 Tea Cosies coming out my ears!
      • A new collective blog about sketchbooks
      • My Sketchabout Sketchbook in full
      • 110426 Easter Tuesday
      • The Paginated Garden Exhibition
      • 110429 Hawksmoor's Towers...
      • Everyday in May
    • May 2011
      • EDiM 02 Draw a power plug
      • 110502 Work Day Trip to Melbourne
      • EDiM 03 Exercise?
      • EDiM 04 Salt and Pepper shakers
      • 110505 T2 high tea with Eza
      • EDIM 06 and 05
      • EDiM07 & 08 News and Bulb
      • 110507 Sydney's Best Portuguese Tart? Sweet Belem
      • 110511 Catching up on EDiM 09-12
      • EDiM 13 and then EDiM Crisis!
      • 110514 A crazy plan for the day and reality....
      • Catching Up....
      • A surprise postcard!
      • Memories of Rome- Borromini's San Carlino
      • 110525 Thinking about paint (and other things)
      • 110528 A new colour- Cobalt Blue Deep W&N
      • 110528 A busy busy day....
    • June 2011
      • 110601 Food Diary 2011 - Start Again
      • A Preview of my NEW blurb book
      • 110603 Getting Ready for a new book
      • Trip Prep 04_Lisbon Red Roof Red
      • My sketching diet - A weeks worth of food!
      • books!!!
      • Trip Prep 06 & 07_Palette Planning Update
      • Trip Prep 08 - Trying something for the 2nd time (a third is needed!)
      • 110610 Food and Murano Take 3
      • 110610 Vivid Sydney 2011
      • 110611 Queens Birthday Weekend Saturday
      • 110613 Queens Birthday Weekend Monday
      • 110614 More MOO cards! (trip prep #9)
      • Trip Prep 05 Clothes Planning
      • Trip Prep 10 - In search of the perfect bag
      • Trip Prep 11 - How many sketchbooks
      • My sketchbooks ready for action
      • 110622 Ash Cloud and a work trip to Melbourne
      • 110622 Celebration Food Sketch
      • Trip Prep 13 - The {almost} perfect bag!!
      • Trip Prep 12 - That all important mix part
      • Trip Prep 14 - The all important tearoom research
      • 110624 10 min lunchtime sketch
      • Trip Prep 16 & 17 Music and Exhaustion
      • Trip Prep 18 Compositional Fun
      • Trip Prep 15- Talking to myself about cameras
      • 100625 A busy Saturday
      • Trip Prep 19 Getting my Art Supplies together
      • My sketching gear in my new bag
      • Trip Prep 20-22 (churning them out now)
      • 110630 Yet another thai meal
      • In response to questions- the bear has his own pocket in the new bag
      • Trip Prep 23 - A dose of John Summerson
    • July 2011
      • Trip Prep 24 Trial Run (for bag etc)
      • 110702 Pre Trip Sketching Day
      • My new BLURB book is available
      • Trip Prep 11 revisited - the restrained striped covers were SOOOwrong....
      • The bear's proudest moment - IN PRINT!!!
      • Trip Prep 25 - Itinerary Based Action List
      • Trip Prep 28 - Map research from 2000 trip
      • Trip Prep 26 Refining Page layout
      • 110707 So exhausted but I have to sketch
      • Time to get really excited! A brand new paint tin
      • Final colours in my paint tin
      • Day "-4" of Trip 2011
      • D-4_00 FInal daily sketching kit
      • D-2_02 Collection Night
      • A special card
      • D-1 All packed but not yet on holidays
      • Two books
      • Leaving Sydney!
      • First Uk tea at heathrow!!!
      • Finally arrived after 30hours of travel and 9 spreads of my sketchbook
      • A big first day- lovely sunny day and sketching mad
      • Cafe royal Newcastle morning tea
      • Blackgate castle Newcastle
      • A green Sydney harbor bridge
      • Grey street Newcastle
      • The Earl grey monument and a crazy building
      • Pen crisis and unexpected bargain
      • Garett James chocolatier with friends
      • Wee Scottish urban sketchers gathering!!!!
      • Bb and stuart kerr and Wil freeborns exhibition in edinburgh
      • Wonderful day with stu and Wil in Edinburgh
      • Great Indian dinner in Edinburgh with Sydney friends
      • Borromini with staff from khushi's diner Edinburgh
      • Eteaket tearoom Edinburgh
      • Amazing breakfast at fraoch house Edinburgh
      • One last quick sketch in Edinburgh
      • Grassmarket
      • Lisbon- with jose Louro
      • Lisbon - Ea drawing me and then bb
      • Lisbon- Nina and isobel
      • First night in Lisbon
      • Edinburgh bank of Scotland
      • Our sketches ...
      • Omar and Borromini
      • Glad to get a serious sketch in Lisbon done this morning
      • Sketching with Omar
      • Bbs first Portuguese tart - it was great
      • Borromini supervises Paul!
      • Late afternoon sketching with Paul and orling
      • With the boys from brazil
      • Lisbon view
      • Cityscapes session 1
      • Cityscapes session 2
      • Unfinished business with Nina and Jose
      • More friends ... BB is very popular
      • Day 2 - breakfast part 2 with Omar and Alvaro
      • Movement with Eduardo and Monica
      • With Eduardo x2
      • With Jason
      • With Mario
      • With Rolf from Berlin
      • Dinner with Omar and Pete
      • Sketch from environments session
      • Movement session - warm up
      • BB with his Flickr friend play in progress
      • Lunch sketch with joao
      • Many photos today but bb likes this one best - with florian- flaf
      • Special friends - Ea and Reza(Ea's other half)
      • Saturday night dinner - Peter Paul and Marina!!
      • Richard Canada and a great street of lisboa
      • With Jim Richards - he gave a great talk. Sadly missed opportunity to sketch side by side
      • Marina and BB
      • Luis Anca bear and sketch
      • Luis anca's great sketch of the amazing sketchcrawl - sketchers EVERYWHERE
      • With Tia .....
      • So many people were looking over out shoulders....
      • Omar and the bear again....
      • There must be a for hydrant around here somewhere!!!!!
      • With my very special friend Cathy Gatland!!!!
      • BB and Norberto
      • So many photos - with Tia. Marina. Nina.
      • With freeKhand (Miguel herranz)
      • Breakfast counter sketching - off to Belem to taste real Portuguese tart today!!!
      • Last cheesy photo with marc Holmes
      • Finally THE best Portuguese tarts in the world
      • Still a few sketchers around!
      • Belem sketch
      • Last Lisbon sketch,,,,,
      • Flying from Lisbon to Bristol
      • In Cardiff at a church conferece - still sketching food
      • Shock horror!!! A quiet afternoon
      • Lunch at herb and ellies Cardiff bay
      • Cardiff bay - quick sketch and 2 lovely conversations with folk passing by
      • Freekhands sketch of BB (I still have lots of Lisbon photos to post)
      • With Ea and Marina
      • Cardiff city hall
      • Quick sketch of entrance to Cardiff castle
      • Saturday lunch - with Josu and his great placemat sketch
      • Saturday lunch - with Luis
      • Saturday lunch - inma checking out the sketching on our table
      • Saturday lunch - supervising Joao
      • Inma's sketch of bb and me (notice the blah blah blah!!!)
      • Saturday lunch - with Agnes and Miguel
      • Saturday lunch - my sketch (heading by Joao)
      • Home away from home
      • Relaxing visit to deli rouge (opposite the church)
      • Sketching the brecon beacons
      • Wonderful welsh tearoom - the old barn tearoom
      • Quick sketch of the brecon beacons
      • Amazing tearoom - the old barn
    • August 2011
      • More lisbon - Luis sketching (us?)
      • More Lisbon - sketching with Eduardo
      • More Lisbon - sketch and head measurements in Ea's sketchbook (wonder why?)
      • Final sketch of the day - trafalgar square - seriously distracted by too friendly local characters x 2!!!
      • London first stop - at Stephen walbrook
      • London second stop - st Mary woolnoth (also sketched inside)
      • My posh London afternoon tea
      • My London purchases (hope you cam read the details)
      • Borromini says hi from London
      • Great breakfast thanks to Kanley
      • St pauls 1
      • St Pauls side view
      • St Pauls details
      • Sketching with Issy
      • Morning with Olha at the childhood museum
      • BB makes even more friends at childhood museum
      • Thanks to the girls at Teasmith for an exquisite tea experience
      • Christ church spitalfields (a hawksmoor church) combo
      • AMAZING oolong tea experience at Teasmith spitalfields
      • Relaxing (yes truly relaxing) afternoon in a cafe in Richmond with Alison from sketchercise
      • Final breakfast ... Final post from the Uk (rest of my sketches still need paint!)
      • Back Home - with lots of homework!!
      • 110806 A few chores this morning meant a visit you know where
      • 110808 Borromini's 4th birthday
      • 110808 A lovely surprise- another postcard from Marni
      • 110806 Back Home- another sketch I did on Saturday the day I got off the plane
      • 110809 Heading out to the streets of Crows Nest
      • Photo of my sketch of Rossio Station for the silent auction
      • 06_Tues19 Arriving in Lisbon- dinner
      • My new blurb book
      • Trip11 Day 07- The Day Before (the Symposium)
      • Lisbon 'regrets'
      • 110813 Getting back into sketching...
      • USK Lisbon Symposium Day 1
      • USK Lisbon Symposium Day 2
      • 110817 Late night Baroque sketch-mid week!
      • A very special sketchbook from the symposium
      • 110818 My art purchases from Trip 2011
      • USK Lisbon Symposium Day 3
      • 110820 Needing a remedy for Post Lisbon Symposium Syndrome?
      • 110822 Sweet Belem Round 3,A NinaBrush and a Szaza handwritten letter
      • Video from Day 1 Lisbon
      • 110823 Sketching in the city
      • Just another T2 visit
      • Borromini Bear - The most stylish bear around (thanks to Ea!!!)
      • Some Early Colonial Architecture of Sydney and more....
      • 110826 A morning at Cockatoo Island
      • A new sketchbook and yet another paint tin!
      • Monday - my extra day sketching in Lisbon. Belem Day
      • Lets Start at the very beginning....
      • To sketch or CAD?
      • My Lisbon Sketchbook!!
      • Welcome to my new blog!!!
    • September 2011
      • Trip 2011: The 30 hour Journey Sydney to Newcastle
      • Trip 2011 Day 2 - First Full day in Newcastle
      • Trip 2011 Day 3 - Socialising with friends in Newcastle
      • A few pages from my 'book' I made from my first trip to Rome
      • 110906 Schmincke Set review
      • Trip 2011 Day 5- Edinburgh (part 1)
      • Trip 2001 Day 5: A Wee Scottish Urban Sketchers Symposium
      • Trip 2011 Day 6 - Morning in Edinburgh (and then heading for Lisbon!!!)
      • Why I love Baroque architecture so much??
      • 110909 Another Nanna Cup
      • Trip 2011: Days 13 & 14 Cardiff- Church Conference
      • A great resource
      • Trip 2011: Day 15 Cardiff
      • Trip 2011: Day 16 & 17 Cardiff
      • Trip 2011: day 19 Off to London... out of control 1st afternoon!
      • Trip 2011: Day 20 A Social day in London
      • Trip 2011: Day 21 Another social day in London!
      • Trip 2011: Day 22 Last day!!!
      • Middle Head and Burnt Orange
      • Do you need perfect perspective to draw architecture?
      • A new colour - W&N Potters Pink
      • Urban Sketchers Australia!!
      • My London Sketches in Full
      • BB is devastated
      • Trip 2011 Volume One
      • Thinking about maps in Travel journals
      • Travel 'journal-style' pages
      • Architects Sketchbooks
      • Final (I think?) post from Trip 2011 - Week in Cardiff
      • 110922 A computer Free Weekend coming up!!!
      • Sketching is really the best way to understand architecture
      • This week I am reading and NOT sketching - well tonight anyway!!
      • Visual Note Taking - An amazing insight into FLW's work
      • 110928 A packet of Rice Crackers
      • Hardwick Hall Revisited
      • 110929 Nannas China- Noritake Coffee Set
      • Sketch 1 for the long weekend completed!!!
      • 110930 A great start to a long weekend
    • October 2011
      • A big food sketching day!
      • Interviewed on The Artling
      • What is inside my bag?
      • 111008 Please humour me a little
      • 111008 Spring Sketchabout and sketching about....
      • A special package!
      • A discussion about perspective
      • Town Hall Sketching
      • 111014 Back to black!
      • Sketchcrawl 33 - A solo effort at home
      • 111017 People Palette
      • Familiar Shoes!!!!
      • Quick trip to Melbourne
      • Sketches from Saturday
      • 111024 Summer Frocks
      • 111027 My usual Barouqe sketching therapy
      • 111027 Basket Case Baroque
      • 2nd video from USK Symposium in Lisbon
      • Friday night craziness
      • Kedleston Hall Sketches
      • Yet another Rome sketch
    • November 2011
      • 111104 Prep for a challenging but self imposed sketching assignment
      • I am ALWAYS sketching architecture
      • Venice Breakfast
      • 111108 I got my USK Singapore Book!!!!!
      • No lines!!!!
      • Relaxation vs Experimentation
      • A vitrual model of Ancient Rome
      • 111112 Rome to Tasmania
      • A new sketchbook started
      • Back to Cockatoo Island
      • The passage of time
      • More sketches from the archive
      • A few old sketches
      • 111121 Quiet weekend but busy Monday morning
      • 111125 This weeks sketches
      • 111125 No escaping my 'liz-ness'
      • Catching up again
      • 111130 Sydney Red Brick House 1
      • San Lorenzo Chapels
    • December 2011
      • 111201 Trip Prep Planning
      • "Ordinary Life"
      • 111210 Martin Place Sketching
      • 111213 Trip Prep- Holiday Clothes
      • 111213 Random Stuff
      • 111215 Birko sewing shopping
      • Alpha vs Gamma (sketchbook paper)
      • 111220 Earl Grey of Crows Nest 13 FIX
      • 111220 WIP- another one of THOSE pages
      • 111221 Pudding!
      • 111221 Summer art supplies
      • Summer! TH22_01 Traditional Way to Start a holiday
      • Tourist!!!!!
      • Summer 1112 Day 1 - A tourist day!
      • Seasons Greetings
      • Summer 1112 Day 2 - A museum day
      • At echo point waiting for paint to dry
      • Are we going down? Pulpit rock
      • Painting on the edge. Pulpit rock
      • Down there? No way!!! (great arvo at pulpit rock)
      • Summer 1112 Day 3 & 4 ...'Christmas'
      • Summer 1112 Day 5 - Heading to the Blue Mountains
      • Summer 1112 Day 6 - A day in the Blue Mountains
      • Summer 1112 Day 7,8 & 9 - A big Bash match and other bits
      • My 2011 in sketches
  • 2010
    • January 2010
      • Xmas and Boxing Day
      • Trip to Port Macquarie
      • A few days at Avoca Beach
      • 100109 The rest of my holidays
      • Suburban masterpieces 01
      • A question for architects: To sketch or CAD when desiging?
      • 100115 First Week Back at Work
      • 100116 Just a cup of tea
      • 100120 This week so far
      • My Remains of the Day Journal
      • 100123 Moleskine Sketches
      • 100123 Weekly T2 cuppa
      • 100126 Happy Australia Day
      • 100127 A Classical Distraction...
      • 100126 Australia Day Part 2
      • Exploring Corsica - thanks to google
      • 100128 A Big Teddy Bear
      • 100129 A nice gum tree and a plastic plant
      • 100130 Zoo and Balmoral
    • February 2010
      • A summary of my trip to Europe Sept/Oct 2009
      • 100203
      • Check this out
      • Inside my wardrobe
      • 010206 A rainy Saturday
      • 100208 Sketching to Start my day at work
      • Europe 09 Sketchbooks
      • 100210 Starting Journal 26
      • 100211 EDM 259 Pets Point of View
      • How did I make my issuu books?
      • 100213 Another wet Saturday
      • 100216 Palazzo Corner Spinelli
      • 100217 Rest Park at Lunch
      • 100219 This week - mornings and lunchtimes
      • 100219 Friday night randomness
      • 100220 Zoo visit 2 and things
      • 100220 Text Page
      • How many sketchbooks?
      • 100224 QVB
      • 100225 Yet another book
      • 100226 Friday night
      • Sketchcrawl 26 - Macquarie St
    • March 2010
      • 100301 A new idea, a gym bag and being thankful
      • 100302 A big Lunch and resolution?
      • 100203 A Special Occasion
      • 100304 A blast from the past
      • 100304 Borromini and Banister plus a new bag
      • 100304 Another idea of mine
      • 100305 Mini Trip Prep and Banister
      • 100306 Random Bits
      • 100306 Family Gathering
      • 100308 A new book and another title page
      • 100308 Mini Trip Prep 2
      • 100309 The full kit?
      • 100310 EDM 260 Draw your filled suitcase
      • Canberra Trip- Day 1
      • Canberra - Day 2
      • Canberra - Day 3
      • Masterpieces of Paris Tips and Thoughts
      • 100319 Lunchtime Sketches
      • 100320 A Big Saturday
      • 100322 Back lighting
      • 100326 This Week Bits
      • 100327 Bits...
      • 100327 Drinking Mountains and a Really Wild Tea Cosy
      • 100330 On the same old theme....
    • April 2010
      • International Fake Journal Month
      • Travel Sketchbooks from last year
      • Happy Easter!
      • IFJM 02 Threatened!
      • 100402 Zoo Visit 3
      • 100402 A non Baroque Late Night Sketch
      • 100403 T2 with a friend!
      • IFJM 03 T2
      • IFJM 05 Repeat Performance
      • 100405 T2 and Tree
      • 100405 Darcy Wisdom
      • Book Launch: Really Wild Tea Cosies
      • 100409 BB at Artiscon's Exhibition
      • 100410 Cockatoo Island - Visit 3
      • BB at Cockatoo Island today
      • 100413 Yesterday and two years ago
      • Borromini and IFJM
      • IFJM 13 Ynyr to the rescue
      • 100413 What I ate today
      • 100414 Baroque Therapy
      • 100416 More Really wild tea cosies
      • 100416 Old tool - new toy!!
      • 100417 T2 Blue Mountains Tea
      • 100417 Saturday afternoon
      • 100417 Saturday evening - Banister Fletcher
      • Published!!!
      • EDM 164 Revisited
      • Back to my Fake Journal - IFJM 13
      • 100421 Lots of Cosies
      • 100421 IFJM Up to Date
      • IFJM 22 unbelievably hardworking
      • 100423 Darling Harbour
      • 100423 Architecture Conference
      • 100424 Conference Day 2
      • 100426 Cockatoo Island on Anzac Day
      • 100427 HELP! Where have the lines gone!
      • 100429 Socialising and sketching
      • 100430 Getting Ready for May
    • May 2010
      • 100501 EDM in EDiM 01 Draw a Shoe
      • Parcel from Brazil
      • 100501 The Rest of my Day
      • 100501 EDM in EDiM 02 Draw a Lamp
      • 100503 EDM in EDiM 03
      • 100504 EDM 04 in EDiM A mug
      • 100504 EDM in EDiM 04b Draw a cup
      • 100505 EDM in EDiM 05 Draw your bed
      • 100506 EDM in EDIM 06 (Post) Childhood Toy
      • 100506 EDM in EDiM 06_Take 2
      • 100507 EDM in EDiM 07 Draw a tin from your kitchen
      • 100508 T2 Grid
      • 100508 EDM in EDiM 08 Draw your watch
      • EDM 09-11 Catch up
      • From Saturday night
      • 100512 EDM in EDiM 12 Draw your dinner
      • 100513 EDM in EDiM 13 Draw A Phone
      • EDM272 A Line from your favourite (Scottish) song
      • 100514 EDM in EDiM 14 What you see BEFORE you get up
      • 100515 Sketchcrawl 27
      • Borromini has a girlfriend
      • 100517 EDM 15-17
      • 100518 EDM in EDiM 18 View out of a window
      • 100519 EDM in EDiM 19,20,22 Collection
      • EDM in EDiM 20 and 23- Something Dad
      • 100524 EDM in EDiM 24 A piece of fruit
      • 100525 EDM in EDiM 25 Draw a Glass
      • 100526 EDM in EDiM 26 Draw a vegetable
      • 100527 EDm in EDiM A Gene Stratton Porter Book
      • From my Dad's Portfolio
      • 100528 EDm in EDiM 28 An Appliance
      • 100528 ASQ Concert
      • EDM in EDiM 29-31 Rushing the last three!
    • June 2010
      • 100604 A few days off... Journal #30 started
      • 100604 Friday night tangent - Rome trip 2004
      • 100608 Baroque to break the drought?
      • 100610 Experimental Page
      • 100611 Two books and a tin of tea
      • 100612 T2(for a change?)
      • 100612 A new blurb book
      • 100614 Ciy Sketching
      • its Official, Its on, its started
      • Trip Prep 2010_3 Art Supplies 1
      • 100618 Vivid Evening
      • 100625 Blog Neglect
      • 100626 Blue Mountains Tea again
      • 100626 trip Prep 4 and 5 - Paint and Sketchbook Setout
      • 100629 Some more Trip Prep
    • July 2010
      • Trip Prep 2010_09 Random Sketch Random Thoughts
      • Trip Prep 2010_10_Out of Scale?
      • Test from iPhone.
      • 100703 Not THAT place again!!!
      • Trip Prep 11-12 Sketchbooks
      • Trip Prep 2010_13 Sketchbook Test
      • Here they are!!!
      • 100708 Palladian Therapy
      • 100709 Wedding Sketch
      • Getting the important stuff ready first
      • 100710 T2 all day!!!
      • 100715 Tearoom Suggestions?
      • My full art kit
      • 100717 Time for a break from T2?
      • All Packed!!!!
      • The journey
      • A great tearoom
      • At Mount St Helens
      • BB at Mt St Helens
      • My Mt St Helens sketch
      • Me and the bear sketching at Mt St helens
      • Being drawn by lapin
      • Lapins sketch of me and Borromini
      • My dinner sketch
      • In Portland
      • Dinner with Suzanne
      • Symposium day 1
      • Our symposium goodies
      • Non stop Sketchers
      • Sketching with frank ching 02
      • Sketching with frank ching 01
      • Some more architecture
    • August 2010
      • Final day
      • Sketching with Matt brehm and Jason das
      • My sketch from this morning
      • Closing show
      • Highlight of the lecture series
      • Breakfast with Gerard
      • Sketching with Gerard
      • Jackson tower
      • Lunch
      • The dekin building
      • 10mibutr sketch
      • Afternoon tea with Cynthia in her garden
      • Dinner with Gerard
      • Guess where Borromini is?
      • With vicky
      • The bear with a cute pair!!!
      • Amazing breakfast
      • 2 hours at architectural salvage
      • Another Flickr friend
      • Morning with mistress of longears
      • In NYC with shirley
      • Empire state building
      • Soho
      • With Veronica and Margaret
      • St barts
      • At a mies building
      • Central park
      • BB in NYC
      • A big day in NYC
      • Great tearoom 1
      • Great tearoom 2
      • The flatiron building
      • Sketching at grand central
      • Morning at the met
      • With shirley at the met
      • Sketching on the Brooklyn bridge
      • Lower manhatten
      • My grand central sketch
      • My last morning in NYC and USA
      • Volume 3 is started
      • Edinburgh first stop
      • Edinburgh castle
      • First Scottish breakfast
      • Edinburgh
      • Another Edinburgh castle
      • Cowgate - Edinburgh
      • Eteaket again!!
      • Flickr work
      • Easy day!!!
      • Aberdour castle 1
      • Aberdour castle 2
      • Aberdour castle 3
      • Aberdour castle 4
      • Edinburgh Friday lunch
      • Being sketched by stuart kerr
      • Great morning sketching with stu
      • On the isle of lewis
      • Final Edinburgh sketch
      • Final final Edinburgh sketches
      • An evening walk
      • Callanish standing stones
      • Callanish stones on lewis
      • Scottish landscapes
      • On isle of Harris
      • Leverburgh fish and chips
      • Scalpay
      • North Harris hills
      • Stornoway cuppa and building
      • Breakie and hand made toys
      • Friday Lewis castle in the rain
      • BB and a Lewis chessman
      • A quiet day
      • Catching up
      • At a broch dun carloway
      • A walk along the beach
      • Sunbaking and sketching
      • BB and Black pudding
      • Last Lewis sketch
      • Dun carolway sketches
      • Sketching coincidence
      • Dun carolway with image this time
      • Fwd: Dun carolway sketches
      • First Inverness breakfast
      • BB at Foyers falls
      • BB at Dunrobin castle
      • A worried bear
      • Dunrobin castle 01
      • Dunrobin castle 02
      • Inverness castle
      • Inverness riverside churches
      • Another dunrobin sketch
      • A quiet day in Inverness
      • Palette update
      • Room with a castle view
      • Dinner at river cafe
      • Sketching at culloden moor
      • Urqihart castle on loch ness
      • Borromini in the heather
      • Culloden moor
      • The bear and the famous castle
      • Crazy girl holding a wee bear
      • I made it to elgol
    • September 2010
      • Sketching on raasay
      • Sketching with Wil freeborn and Stuart kerr
      • Sketching with the lads in Glasgow
      • 3 urban sketchers
      • Kelvingrove
      • Glasgow George square
      • Raasay sketch from Tuesday
      • Fort William view
      • Scottish tearoom with a view
      • Abbey cottage tearoom sketch
      • Seaton Delaval
      • Seaton Delaval 2
      • Seaton Delaval 3
      • Sketching in Corbridge 1
      • Sketching in Corbridge 2
      • Sketching in Corbridge 3
      • The grand tour continues
      • Sketching with Lynne
      • BB painting with Lynne
      • BB inside Kedleston hall
      • Kedleston hall south front
      • Extra bear on the stairs
      • Royal crown derby tearoom
      • Kedleston hall front
      • Kedleston hall south facade - back
      • Kedleston hall - saloon
      • Hadron hall courtyard
      • HADDON hall entry
      • Hardwick Hall
      • More hardwick hall
      • Blenheim palace 1
      • Blenheim detail 1
      • Blenheim 2
      • Blenheim detail 2
      • In Cardiff
      • Sketching in Cardiff
      • In the pump room
      • Castell coch
      • View out the window
      • Great Cardiff church
      • Great Cardiff deli
      • Sometimes getting from a to b is a challenge
      • Final cooked breakfast for trip
      • Kew gardens
      • Final Earl grey tea in the Uk
      • In Venice!!!!!
      • First Venice breakfast
      • San Giacomo dell'orio
      • S Maria del miracoli
      • Campo SS Giovanni e Paolo
      • Exetreme sketching-The grand canal
      • Extreme sketching - on the grand canal
      • When in Rome ... Or Venice
      • Borromini and scarpa
      • While waiting to get inside San Marco
      • San Marco interior
      • Rialto bridge
      • Murano
      • Grand canal sketching
      • The bear on the grand canal
      • At the pigment shop
      • Crazy girl with bear extemely excited to be at a Palladio building
      • Borromini and Palladio
      • Salute
      • Grand canal collage
      • Breakfast view
      • The bear at the biennale
      • The bear and le corbusier
      • The bear in the Hungary pavilion
      • An Australian architect
      • Final Venice sketch
      • Volume 7 here we come
      • Bologna
      • The joys of trying to sketch at famous sites in Rome
      • Bologna street view
      • Bologna detail and towers
      • St peters
      • Trevino fountain
      • Borromini and Borromini
      • Bramantes tempietto
      • Borromini s ivo
      • I found a nice tea shop in Rome
      • Food sketching
    • October 2010
      • Borromini and George
      • Great baroque facade terrible location
      • San carlo by Borromini
      • Last afternoon with eza
      • Borromini and Bernini
      • One of NUMEROUS baroque facades I have sketched
      • Lunch sketches
      • Bernini fountain
      • Arch of Constantine
      • Early dinner
      • Sketching at the colosseum
      • Final destination
      • Arezzo
      • Back home and back to T2
      • 101009 Big Trip - Sydney Day 2
      • Here they all are
      • Stocking up on my secret weapon
      • The Mayor of Portland
      • 101014 A Sketch!!
      • 101015 Balmoral on a Friday Evening
      • Borromini's Friends- Part 1
      • 101016 29th International Sketchcrawl
      • My big trip - A few favourites!
      • A few more favourites- from the UK
      • Even more favourites- Venice and Bologna
      • A Rome Sketch - S Celso e Giuliano
      • More Rome sketches - and there are still HEAPS more to post
      • More New York Sketches
      • Normal Life Sketching
      • Just a FEW(?) more Rome sketches and stuff
      • More Venice Sketches
      • My art souvenirs
      • My art souvenirs
    • November 2010
      • More Bologna Sketches
      • Even more Rome sketches (have I said that before?)
      • Starting at the beginning
      • Urban Sketches in Seattle Dinner
      • 101102 Mahler instead of Melbourne Cup
      • Queen Marys Tearoom Seattle
      • Volume 1 is uploaded!!!!
      • 101105 Friday Night restlessness - yellow theme
      • Another Portland Sketch
      • Time in Kansas City
      • Volume 2 is here!!!
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 01-Bean Drinking
      • 101110 Post Trip Restlessness
      • 101111 Venice Sketch Therapy
      • 101112 Getting back into the Groove
      • 101115 Sketching to the rescue?
      • 101116 Sketching Diet Day 2
      • Aberdour Castle out of Edinburgh
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 02-Crow Zone
      • Volume 3!
      • 101120 A GREAT tearoom
      • The most hip roof form???
      • My favourite tree at my favourite time of the year
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 03-Coffee Culture
      • 101126 My Grandma's funeral
      • Current Sketching Tools
      • A quiet day in Inverness
    • December 2010
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 04-Cafe 107
      • More Scottish sketches
      • Volume 4!
      • 101204 Woolwich Dock
      • Volume 5!
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 05- Wrapido
      • Volume 6 - Venice!!!!
      • Volume 7- Bologna and Rome(part 1)
      • Volume 8- Rome(part 2) Tuscany...Home!
      • Earl Greys of Crows Nest 06-Sparrow
      • 101217 One that I missed?
      • 101218 A morning Sketching
      • Happy Holidays!-Have a Cool Summer
      • 101223 Holidays!!(again!)
      • Merry Xmas from BB on a stunning Sydney morning
      • 101224 Sketchy Xmas Eve
      • 101225 Sketchy Xmas Day
      • Guess who is going away again
      • A shed
      • I actually had a swim at the beach today!!
  • 2009
    • January 2009
      • 090103 Berry Holiday - Part 1
      • 090105 Berry Trip - Part 2
      • 090105 Random stuff
      • 090109 Holiday to Port Macquarie
      • 090110 Solo Sketchcrawl
      • 090117 101_8 S Francesco Rimini
      • 090124 Food ABC
      • 090124 Iced VoVo
      • 090124 Too Hot to Sketch Outside
      • 090126 Australia Day
      • 101_9 Brussels Town Hall
    • February 2009
      • Rain in Sydney desperately needed in Victoria!
      • 090213 My New Tea Set
      • 090214 High Tea
      • 090219 Weekly Spread
      • 090228 The Other Half of the Royal Albert Tea Set
      • 090228 New cups
      • 090228 FInal two cups for the month
      • 090228 A busy journal day
    • March 2009
      • 090313 Armchair Travelling
      • 090313 A new hobby
      • 090313 T2 tearoom visit 3
      • 090321 This week
      • 090320 SS Redentore
      • 090323 Ca' Rezzonico
    • April 2009
      • 090404 This Week
      • 090404 A busy Saturday...
      • 090411 Sketchcrawl in The Blue Mountains
      • 090425 Anzac Day
      • 090424 A New Journal
      • 090428 Trying to keep my blog more up to date...
      • 090428 A commitment
      • 090429 EDiM Title Page
      • 090430 Doctors Waitng Corridor
    • May 2009
      • Everyday in May 01
      • 090501 Friday Night Traffic
      • 090502 Saturday...
      • EDiM 02,03,04
      • EDiM Day 5
      • EDiM Day6
      • EDiM 07 Boring Dark suits
      • EdiM 07 MORE pages!!!
      • EDiM Day 8
      • 090507 Visit to T2 tearoom again
      • 090509 More EDiM...
      • 090515 Friday night cuppa
      • Catching up of EDiM
    • June 2009
      • Tokyo String Quartet in Action
      • 090620 Museum Sketching
    • October 2009
      • Back Home and Back to T2
      • 091019 Back Home
      • More of 'Back Home'
      • A Sketchers Bag
      • Day 00 - The Journey Begins
      • Day 01 - The Adventure begins! Heathrow to Cardiff
      • Day 02 - Cardiff
      • Day 03 - Sunday in Cardiff
      • Day 04 - Cardiff to Hay on Wye
      • Day 5 - Hay on Wye to Bala
    • November 2009
      • Day 06 - Bala to Caernarfon
      • Day 07 - Caernarfon to Llandudno
      • Last weekend
      • Sketchbook Catch Up
      • The Bear in Wales
      • 091107 A Nice Saturday
      • Day 08 - Wales to Newcastle- Big Day!
      • Archive Sketches of Castle Howard
      • Day 09 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
      • Architectural Research Tangent
      • Architectural Comparison
      • 091113 Another Handbag
      • 091116 Catching up on the weekend
      • Day 11 - To Scotland
      • 091118 Reading and Sketching
      • Day 12 Glasgow
      • Day 13 - Glasgow
      • Day 14 - To Edinburgh
      • Sydney Sketchcrawl
      • Day 15 - Edinburgh
      • Day 16- Last Day in Edinburgh
      • Happy Thanksgiving
      • Happy Thanksgiving
      • Day 17 Heading for the Highlands
      • Day 18 - Isle of Skye
    • December 2009
      • Day 19-20 Scottish West Coast
      • Day 21-27 Inverness and Around
      • 091205 Pyrmont Markets
      • 091207 Some of my saturday purchases
      • Europe 09 Paris...
      • Paris Day 01
      • Paris Day 02 - Part 1
      • 091211 Friday After work
      • 091212 Morning Tea
      • Paris Day 2 - Part 2
      • Paris Day 03
      • Paris Day 5
      • Paris Day 06 _ Trip to Versailles
      • Paris Day 07 - Last Day in Paris!
      • The End of my wonderful trip
      • 091217 Finished with Paris?
      • 091214 Monday night scribbling
      • 091219 Weekend sketches
      • 091222 Let the summer holidays begin!
      • 091223 A day in Town
      • 091224 Another day in Town
  • 2008
    • June 2008
      • 080604 Tempietto
      • 080605 PeopleonBus
      • 080605 HugeTreat
      • 080605 Flight Doodles
      • 080605 AirportDinner
      • 080607 BlackwoodCafe
      • 080606 Friday
      • 080607 CarSketch
      • 080609 Monday
      • 080613 CoverPage
      • 080613 Friday
      • 080614 EDM175 A basket
      • 080614 Sat Food
      • 080614 Cromarty
      • 080616 Monday Food
      • 080617 Tuesday Food
      • EDM 174 Draw a bridge
      • 080621 Sketchcrawl No.19
      • 080621 More Food
      • 080625 More food....
      • 080627 Even more food
      • 080628 Afternoon at Putney
      • 080628 Saturday
      • 080630 Monday
    • July 2008
      • 080703 Food Food Food
      • 080708 So Far this week....
      • 080709 Amazing Italian Architects
      • 080716 Finishing my Food Diary
      • 080721 Afternoon Tea in May
      • 080725 Non Food Posts
    • August 2008
      • 080802 Two days out
      • 080822 Catching up
    • September 2008
      • 080902 Getting back into sketching
      • Tasmania Trip - First Night
      • Day 1 - Hobart and Richmond
      • Day 2 - Sunday Notes
      • Day 3 - Up the Heritage Hwy
      • Day 4 - A mountain driving day
      • Day 5 - North Coast
      • Day 7 - Huon River and Hartz Mountains
      • Day 6 - Back down the Heritage Hwy
      • Day 8 - Last day around Battery Point
      • 080925 EDM 190 - My Palette
      • Revisiting Middle Head
    • October 2008
      • Teapot Doodles
      • 081008 Bit and pieces
      • A new project: 101 Buildings
      • 081016 A new sketchbook
      • 081015 A feather
      • 081017 101 Buildings - No. 4
      • 081017 EDM 193 Extreme Closeup
      • 081017 Roast Dinner
      • 081017 a Gum Nut
      • 081018 Sketching at Nutcote
      • 081023 October Virtual Sketch date
      • 081025 20th World Wide Sketchcrawl
      • 081031 101_6 Pisa
    • November 2008
      • 081101 Drawing Mack
      • 081101 Le Corbusier Masterpiece
      • 081103 Unite Roofscape_2
      • 081105 Unite 3
      • 081107 A great way to end a busy week
      • 081108 Birthday Party
      • 081111 Catching up of a few EDM Challenges
      • 081115 Big Sketching day
      • 081118 EDM198 Noodles
      • 081119 November Virtual Sketch Date
      • The Real Me!
      • 081124 A visit to the Zoo
      • 081129 This Week
    • December 2008
      • 081201 Tea Cosy
      • 081205 Urban Sketching
      • 081212 More Tea cosies
      • 081212 Traffic Sketches
      • 081211 New Equipment
      • 081213 Mini Sketchcrawl
      • 081220 A friend's brief visit to Sydney
      • 081223 Last Day at Work for the year
      • 081224 Start of Holiday
      • 081224 An Obelisk
      • 081225 MY tea cosy
      • 081225 Sydney Harbour on Christmas Day
      • 081226 Watching the start of the Sydney to Hobart Race
      • 081226 Photos of Me Sketching
      • 081227 Family Christmas Day
      • 081230 Just hanging around Sydney

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