Great Gesture Drawing Tips
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LoveLifeDrawing – 11 Steps to Great Gesture Drawing

This gesture drawing tutorial had some good tips for developing urban sketching people skills

Ink and Tombow sketches of people of One Week 100 People art challenge
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One Week 100 People 2024

This year’s One Week 100 People challenge was great for honing my style and getting me using my Tombow pens for shading instead of watercolour.

House and Garden in Cabanas with Calla Lily 'Captain Ventura'
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Day 6-10 of The 100 Day Project

10 days into my 100 day Project and I’m learning how to improve my 15-minute building sketches.

Lavante Cabanas 15 minute ink and watercolour sketch
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Day 1-5 of The 100 Day Project

5 days into my 100 day Project and I’m learning how to improve my 15-minute building sketches.

Logo for the 100 day project
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The 100 Day Project 2024

The 100 Day Project is starting on February 18th 2024. I’m taking part. Are you?

Nuno Caricature ink and watercolour
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2023 Caricatures

Being commissioned to create a birthday sketch inspired me to explore the art of caricature.

Blind Contour to get you out of a creative block
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Get out of your Creative Block with Blind Contour

Find out how I overcame by creative block by using Blind Contour sketches to get inspired and motivated to sketch again.

Sketch from Photo
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One Week 100 People 2023 – Sketches 1 to 32

The first 32 people sketches for this year’s One Week 100 People.

Urban Sketcher's in Action
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Algarve Art Classes, Resources and Groups

Read about art classes, events, and other Algarve resources.

Marc Taro Holmes One Week 100 People
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One Week 100 People 2023 Sketch Challenge

Need motivation to sketch people? Join the 2023 One Week 100 People sketching challenge in March.

How to mix olive green from my standard watercolours.
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How to Reduce the Greens in my Palette

Here’s how I experimented to reduce the greens in my travel palette from 3 to 1.

Faro Architecture and street scenes
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First Train Trip to Faro

First train trip to explore Faro and photograph buildings and scenes that inspire me to sketch.

One week 100 People Sketch Challenge
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One Week 100 People 2022 Sketch Challenge

March 8-12, 2021 – Pandemic Relief Edition! I love sketching people in ink, and this annual sketching event #OneWeek100People was made…

Suhita Shirodkar Craftsy Class
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Sketcher Spotlight: Suhita Shirodkar

My Sketcher Spotlight on urban sketcher Suhita Shirodkar, and a review of her figure sketching class.

The California Feetwarmers
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Swing in the Park

Sketching at a Sunday concert series in Santa Monica with The California Feetwarmers.

Trees and Foliage can be overwhelming to Paint
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Forget Technical and Get Creative with your Watercolours

How not to get overwhelmed with TMI about the technical side of watercolour.

Culver City Urban Sketching
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People Sketches: May

A collection of people I’ve encountered and sketched during my walks around Culver City in May.

April Urban Sketches of People in Los Angeles
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People Sketches: April

A collection of people I’ve encountered and sketched during my walks around Culver City in April.

Culver City Stairs for Exercise and Inspiration
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Culver City Stairs for Exercise and Inspiration

I thought this local hiking trail would be good exercise. Turns out it’s good for creativity too.

Flower Pen and Wash Study
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Are you searching for your artistic style?

Join me as I begin a new journey to discover my artistic style, and get inspired to find your own.

Sem Horas restaurant in Setubal Portugal ink and watercolour
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Day 31-40 of The 100 Day Project

40 days into my 100 day Project and I’m putting what I’ve learnt so far, into my 15-minute building sketches.

Ink and watercolour sketch of my favourite Conceição walk street
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My favourite pedestrian street in Conceicão

I keep capturing this little street with different sketching styles. Probably more to come…!

Ink and watercolour sketch of local Spar shop in Cabanas
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Day 16-20 of The 100 Day Project

20 days into my 100 day Project and I’m learning how to improve my 15-minute building sketches.

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Travel Painting Kit for Turkey

My very paired-down art kit for a 4 week trip to Turkey. Traveling Light!