I was prompted to film another live sketch, after my sketching a coffee cup two weeks ago.

The aim is to show you how I sketch with watercolour pencils, rather than explaining in words on the page.

This time, my second filming attempt was a bit more organised, but I have a steep learning curve to go. I figured out how to rotate the video this time. The phone sits in the bracket at the top, face up. I pressed Camera and then Time-lapse, and then started sketching.

I had chosen my subject – one I have sketched many times before – vegemite on toast. Yes, I lather it on! I waited for the toast to cool, so that the butter would not melt. I chose the watercolour pencil colours that I knew I would use and sharpened them all. These are all Faber Castell Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils:

• Black
• Burnt Umber
• Walnut
• Payne’s Grey
• Brown Ochre
• Burnt ochre
• Light Cadmium Yellow
• Ivory

it is a Staedler sharpener

The brushes are my tiny brush and my medium brush. I have no idea of the sizes. I have a larger brush and a bigger brush (a 6 ??? ) that I use at home. Out and about I would use my Medium tip Kuretake Waterbrush.

Filming this time, I felt very self-conscious as to my hand movements: of how many times I changed pencil colour, my hand movements across the page. I was questioning myself whether this is what I would do if I was not filming? The answer, maybe not quite, but close to. I filmed the first video and realised that my hand dominated most of the page, and added the second piece of toast.

I hope that this gives you an insight as to my approach and method of using watercolour pencils

Things you may note

• Mixing the colours –

– for the Vegemite I sketched on the page with Black and Walnut on the page before adding the water. Knowing your colours and what they will do when water is added and how they mix is great.

– mixing off the tip of the pencils – Black and Walnut – a method to add colour to the when the page was already wet. If I had drawn on the page it would not have gone on smoothly, clumping and not spreading

• adding from the tip of the brush

• using the brush on the page

-dragging on the page to pull the colour across and spread it. It will get lighter as it spreads and you run out of pigment to

-stippling on the page – not dragging, but just adding a little water can intensify a colour and you can move it around a little.

I hope this gives you some ideas. This is just how I use watercolour pencils. Let me know if you have any questions. I would love to know any new things that you learnt from this.

One day I will film and use this out and about Urban Sketching so that you can look over my should there too.