This weekend I sketched with some students that have been on some of my recent travel sketching classes. We met at the local Kere Kere Green cafe in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens and spent a  few hours talking art. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The blackboard sign in the cafe seemed to have been written just for us.

“The best way to relax is to do what you love”

I brought along a lot of watercolour pencils that I own, but do not use as part of my daily sketch kit in my customised pencil wrap and the 26 colours I use.

It was a good opportunity for them to see the range of colours that are produced (in this case by Faber Castell) and play to see what colours that they would and wouldn’t use. I don’t have the full range of colours  but it was  a good insight into the sort of colours available – and there are some strange ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stayed inside and sketched our food and surroundings, As this was not a class, I did not impose a 15 minute limit on sketches. This session, we ate cold food and drank cold coffee, as we were too busy sketching it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was such fun just to sketch and chat and to be able to share my knowledge of watercolour pencils with people who have been introduced to a fun new medium. For some it has also been their introduction to sketching . I think that we will be having more of these play days.