Below are my sketches and drawings from the past week. It will give you an idea of the opportunities I take/make to sketch.

Waiting time is sketching time. I did not have time to colour my stockings black.

I received a new bottle of ink in the mail, I decided to line up some old ink bottles and sketch them.

Arriving early at State Library Victoria for a breakfast function. I spent the time sketching.

Friday night. It is a tradition to open a bottle of wine on a Friday night and sketch it. It is also practice at ellipses’, reflections and colours.

Saturday morning class of “Sketching the Library FGarden with Watercolour Pencils” . Six lovely creatives attended and had a wonderful time. I like to inspire and motivate people, so that they walk away ready to continue their journey.

Lots of playing with colours and then going out into the garden to cut some leaves and flowers to take back into the room to sketch.

And then planning for the next Watercolour pencil class.

I am also working all the time in the evenings on “drawing in books” for my upcoming stall at Clunes Booktown Festival.

Sketching, sketching, sketching all the time. I love it .

Happy sketching everyone.

A short video showing how I use a waterbrush and watercolour pencils colour on a page. The video plays in a loop and I finish with nine colours on the page.

I am experimenting with swatches of different colours on the page.

I am using a waterbrush (basically a tube of water). I could be using a paintbrush and water container.

• touch the waterbrush to the page and move some of the pigment around. You can see that sometimes the colour becomes a lot more intense when the water is added.

• I then pull the brush across or down the page, spreading the pigment. You can see that it gets lighter as it bceomes diluted. This means that you can get a large range of colour from one pencil.

• I clean the brush between colours on a serviette.

• You don’t need to keep pumping the waterbrush. It is very easy to flood the page with water.

Colours used are from my daily sketch kit:

I hope that this post inspires and motivates you to put pencil to paper.

Any questions – just ask !

A very last minute blog post this week. I had great plans for an instructive video this week, but got to the end of the weekend with nothing accomplished. I spent a lot of time working in and on my drawn in books for my stall at Clunes Booktoen Festival. It is only seven weeks away.

These books were under $5 or in little libraries as giveaways.

I have checked and they are not rare books! Many are ex-library and have stamps and tape and writing in them.

and another opportunity to draw a field mouse.

see you next week. I hope to have a video of sketching with watercolour pencils.