I sketched my art supplies for the urban sketcher’s symposium in Toulouse. I like ink lines and watercolour, but I’ve had to pack a few extra supplies because of the workshops I’m attending.

I’ve been prepping these three books for my trip to Toulouse to attend the Urban Sketcher’s Symposium next week. Three are Hahnemühle watercolour books, and one is a hand-made matchbook swatch book that I made to consolidate some of my colour swatching ideas for painting the Pink City. I also made a spiral bound sketchbook for notes during my workshops and making thumbnail sketches.

My go-to watercolour sketchbook is the Hahnemühle 200gsm cold pressed paper with a fine texture, which is the ideal weight of paper for ink and wash. It comes with a grey cover, so added a bit of personality to my May 2026 books with some handprinted abstract paper I created with my Gelli Arts plate.

Day 95 of sketching people. Today I sketched groups at the monthly Sol de Inverno event in Tavira. I used a different easel today, made out of an A5 watercolour book cover, and it worked really well.

Day 89 of sketching people in ink and watercolour. A day sketching a group of Beach Bums, and experimenting with the type of expressive effects I’m able to create by adding salt to damp watercolour.

Kicking off a new run through of Liz Steel’s watercolour course by doing the first exercise, to create a swatch grid of every colour in my urban sketching palette in a watery wash, a juicy wash, and a pasty wash.

A roundup of the Draw This In Your Style challenges I attempted this week including a couple of floral adorned buildings.

A review of the Hahnemühle Watercolour Book, which is ideal for urban sketching.