Hello to new subscribers to my weekly art blog. I thought I would let you know what to expect to see on my blog each week.

I am a watercolour pencil artist, urban sketcher, nature journaller. I enjoy quick sketches and studied drawings.

Some weeks I feature a project I am working on or an event I have been to. I usually provide a bit of background and context and work-in-progress photographs.

I also try to regularly write about my watercolour pencils and how I use them, giving practical examples. I have been drawing daily with watercolour pencils for over ten years and am still learning and getting excited by what am able to accomplish with them. I hope to inspire people to use these and just have fun putting pencil to paper.

And then there are weeks like this, where I show what I have been sketching and drawing during the week. This can be an eclectic mix depending on what I have been doing. I am still working from home full time so my daily sketches do not feature as many ‘out and about’ sketching as they would have a few years ago.

This week I attended an outdoor event: a tour of the gardens at Bishopscourt, the residence of the Melbourne Anglican Archbishop. The house is the oldest in East Melbourne (1853) and the gardens have their history too.

I am very rusty at drawing groups of people as I have not been in this situation for so long now.

I sketched at the hairdressers. The top half is me in the mirror The feet are the person on the other side of the mirror. Iti s like one of those books from childhood.

I had the opportunity to draw some food.

I attended a Zoom life drawing session one night. The theme was the cult movie Blade Runner, with the models dressed and posing as main characters.

I have also been working on my “You Can’t Draw in Books” project for a potential event. This involves drawing in books that are about to be discarded, illustrating the words on the page. I give it a new life. More news on this project later.

I hope you enjoy the blog.