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The toy guy who has totally cornered the "Black Line-3D thatlookslike 2D" style is releasing his collection of sketches in a book format so we get more of an insight into his world.Available for Pre-Order HERE.[VIA]

As I moved forward in my moleskine I continued playing with color a bit, first going back to the elongated circles, which a friend thought looked like peacock feathers in the black and white version, and then trying a looser, sketchier style with the Art Stix, instead of the markers which I'd previously attempted.  Neither enthused me.So I took a little different path.  I had been thinki

monoprint and coloured pencil. in Casey's book for the FPP exchange, by Vivien - link to the exchange websiteThese are my additions to Casey's book - theme: Local Colour. It's safely arrived in France so I can post them here now :>)The monoprints were done by painting onto acetate with turpsy oil paints and then using that to print onto paper. I then worked on them when dry with coloured penc

In 1956, Bob Crane was the number one morning disc jockey on Los Angeles’ KNX-AM radio. He filled the broadcast with sly wit, drumming, and guests such as Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Bob Hope. Crane known as “The King of the Los Angeles Airwaves.” With high ambitions, Crane pursued acting opportunities. He subbed for [...]

The first page was an attempt to take a looser approach with the pen.  I was not pleased.  It just looks sloppy to me.  With the second page I returned to familiar ground in a different variation, some areas of circle spaced further apart and some with them closer together.  The trick this time was the river boundary lines and then all of the dense circles had their center poin

well this should have been a slide show - but photobucket is just taking FOREVER to load it and that's on broadband - so I give up!I'm not going to waste any more time on photobucket slide shows :>(

"Not a lot of room for weeds" The Long Border at Great Dixter 12" x 16", coloured pencils in sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell I hope you like this plein air sketch of The Long Border at Great Dixter. Click the link to go to my Travels with a Sketchbook blog where you can find out more about this absolutely terrific herbaceous border and also see some photos of this incredibly long border

Vivien's Time and Tide series in the FPP sketchbook exchange - Nina's book, theme: Local ColourNina's book is now with Ronell so I can show the pages I did - Nina's pages were bathed in golden sunlight and Glen had continued with large red poppies.My first thought was to do some extreme close ups of poppies but I decided to cool things down instead and do the English coast in changing weathers an

a small fragment preview of my addition to Casey's book in the FPP sketchbook exchangeThis is a fragment of my addition to Casey's sketchbook - theme: Local Colour. It is just about to be sent winging its way to Ronell in France. It already contains work by Casey, Nina, Glen and now me and it's getting fat :>) I had to extend the cover to fit the pages :>)

At 17, Judy Tyler played Princess SummerFallWinterSpring on the Howdy Doody Show. She played the role for two years and moved to Broadway to star in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Pipe Dream. Judy appeared on the cover of Life Magazine and was nominated for a Tony award. Although she lost to Lotte Lenya’s performance in “A [...]

The differences between genres of music has intrigued me for some time. And as different as they seem, these for performers from different eras have something in common. Tommy Dorsey was a giant in the big band era. His orchestra included, at one time or another, trumpeters Doc Severinsen, and Charlie Shavers, drummers Buddy Rich, Louis [...]

Canson watercolour sketchbook - first pageA few weeks ago I went to an artists talk where he showed his sketchbooks - I love sketchbooks as you may have noticed :>)He often used Canson watercolour sketchbooks 12ins wide x 9in high and I really liked them and the proportion/size of the book (his work was interesting too!) . I ordered one from Great Art and it came yesterday, it's lovely, a smart r

I decided to try another page where the ripple pattern was contained within a shape. The butterfly worked really well, especially since I carefully chose where to put the origination points.  Then I wondered what would happen if one ripple set off the other ripples as it expanded to touch the origination points.  This page was my first try and I wasn't pleased with the effect.For the sec

Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb was born in 1886 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. As a teenager, he apprenticed as a machinist. He married and had two children, but with the outbreak of World War I, he entered the military. In 1916, after his discharge from military service, he headed to America alone, hoping to send for [...]

Poppies dancing in the wind. collage, watercolour, coloured pencil, Vivien Blackburn, moleskine exchange July '08I can post the images now as the book has arrived with Stephanie. These pages were done for the moleskine exchange .This is in David's book, theme: Dance. You can see his wonderful intense tango dancers below, followed by Gesa's great abstract thoughts - timing and steps, cooling thing

So no offense to all of you hardcore Seinfeld fans out there, but I had a rather offensive dream about Cosmo Kramer last night.Seriously!!It was really frigging bizarre, too, and NO, it wasn't a sex dream!!Well, actually it was a sex dream, but I wasn't having sex, I was just watching. Er, I mean I was watching Kramer explain his sexual escapade from the night before to Elaine and Jerry.Yep, and a

An update on the FPP sketchbook exchange - I now have Casey's book :>) as Glen finished her section in record time! ..... no pressure then :>0 Casey started her book - theme Local Colour - with some lovely colourful sketches of people and market fruits, a real flavour of France :>) There is a beautiful fresh fluidity and freedom in the way she catches these and it's great to have them here to see

Color again - but this time colored pencil instead of markers.  I love how this medium lays down on the paper of the moleskine sketchbook.  It gives me a lot more room for shading if I want to make the pieces appear more three dimensional than the overlapping does on its own.  The design element of having one circle be squiggly lines instead of smooth also seemed to work well.I coul

The Garden Tower, Penhurst Place 8" x 11.5", coloured pencils in Daler Rowney Sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell These are the images - if you want to read the text and the explanation for where I went yesterday afternoon you need to visit A hot summer's afternoon in a Kentish garden over on my other blog Travels with a Sketchbook in..... Plus you get to see some photos too. The Mistletoe

Poppies by Glen Heath - detailI have the next book in the FPP sketchbook exchange and help!!!!! what a challenge. The book is Nina's and her theme: Polychrome. -exchange-ninas-work.html You can see how Nina started the book here, with a beautiful watercolour of the view from her home.Now Glen has lived up to it with this lovely study of poppies - the full image is below with some of Nina's work s

This is our friendly garden hedgehog enjoying a pasty (OK - I know the edge is scorched!) - he/she really enjoyed the cheese and potato pasty and remains of the cat's dinner :>) Flearidden I know, but awfully sweet. He/she was limping so we'll keep an eye on the situation and make sure food is out. (the limp isn't due to the cats as they have a live and let live attitude to the hedgehogs)He/she

By the time she was six, Anissa (pronounced “ah-NEESE-ah”) Jones was hawking cereal in her first television commercial. A couple of years later, in 1966, Anissa’s acting talents caught the attention of two television producers who were preparing a new television sitcom called Family Affair. They felt Anissa would be perfect in the role of [...]

I did go back to patterns for some of these drawings.  I wondered what would happen if I expanded one ring and added designs to it and also what would happen if I divided the field of the drawing, so I tried two of each.My mind drifted and I tried something intended to be a landscape.  It was okay, but not impressive, so I abstracted and rounded the idea further for the next page. 

Sketchbook exchange updateNina's painting in her book - which is currently with Glen (but I got a sneak preview!) and will come to me next.Isn't it gorgeous? Her theme is polychrome and there are the most gorgeous subtle colour changes in there with a wonderful sense of light - the golden light of late afternoon/early eveningI love her sense of balance with the other elements as well - the writi

watercolour, fragment of watercolour sketch - Vivien BlackburnI picked up Glen's book on Friday and have had fun (though it was intimidating after seeing the gorgeous images she'd created) adding to it. These are fragments of what will soon be flying on to Ronell in France :>) I've done 2 pages and just have to do the half page, where the next person - Ronell - can interact with my image.My bo

I began adding color by extending the largest expanding circle with the greens, deliberately not letting it intersect the centers of the other circles for more interest.  That wasn't quite enough, so I made the center green as well.  I was really pleased with this one.  The next page I tried to have red and blue intersecting circles make purple.I added colored lines inbetween black

This is the bit where Gesa's pages end and she overlaps slightly onto my page - just a fragment of the image - I've treated it like the paper game of consequences and continued the marks into my work - but to see the whole pages you'll have to wait until Stephanie gets the book and then I can show you :>)And now I have to go and sort out some room to fit my new plan chest into - I got it from Fre

Fields of Gold. oil in moleskine sketchbook. Vivien BlackburnMy little moleskine before setting off for the moleskine exchange - it's the little concertina one, which I found really tiny to work in.Stephanie has now received it and so I can post the picture here. I've been working in Gesa's book which arrived on Wednesday - her challenge was great fun to work to but I can't show it until it's fini

I'm taking part in 2 sketchbook exchanges and it's fun!1 Moleskine exchange:Gesa Gesa sends her book to me - and it arrived this morning. :>) She's used a really interesting mix of media and integrated them beautifully - something that looks easier to do than it is - relating to the theme for her book ' Lines, Lineages, Linings' with a lovely quote from Nicholas de Stael' a series of discontinous

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I continued with rings of asymmetric growth from the origination points, altering which direction the objects grew in.  I really like the movement in these and will probably return to this variation of the motif.But the next day I felt like combining circles with ovals, or origination dots with origination lines.  The ovals made me think of eye, so I played that up a bit on the next dood

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Jerzy Kosinski walked a fine, sometimes blurred, line between bullshitter and storyteller. Kosinski was born Josek Lewinkopf in Poland in 1933. As a child during World War II, he avoided the Nazis by using a false identity. He lived with a Roman Catholic Polish family in eastern Poland under the name, Jerzy Kosinski, an assumed name given to [...]

Nintendo might be the best videogame company on earth, but occasionally they waste some serious opportunities. Like Mario Paint on the DS. It's pleading for it. But Wired's How-To Wiki shows us how to turn it into a sweet digital sketchbook in the meantime with the Colors app. All you need to install it is a <a href=" -Multimedia-Video-Picture-MicroSD/dp/B00161IBOO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&

Autodesk Sketchbook Pro 2009 | 32 Mb | EngAutodesk Sketchbook Pro 2009; designed for use with tablet PCs or digitized pen tablets, Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro software is your digital sketchpad. Use it in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used, including.. Product concept and ideation Illustrations Character studies Set and level designs Storyboarding Annotation

Mary Bickford Dunn was born in 1898 in Ontario, Canada. After her father died, she moved to Los Angeles with her mother and sister. While working as a secretary, the attactive Marie applied for and landed an acting job at the Hollywood studio owned by Mack Sennett. Sennett dubbed her “the exotic French girl,” and [...]

A sketch of the Leicestershire landscape, fields of rapeseed glowing with their bright yellow flowers against the hazy blue distant hedgerows and woods in the evening light and clouds of cow parsley in the fields edge. Pastel sketch in my new hand made concertina sketchbook. Vivien BlackburnI managed this sketch of the local landscape between classes yesterday. It was early evening and the distant

The expanding circles doodle that I used in Taking a Line for a Walk stuck in my brain so much that I decided to commit an entire moleskine to elaborating and varying the idea.  I've never tried to stick with a series that long and this is going to be a bit of a challenge for me.  The idea is mutating already and I have no idea what the last page in the sketchbook will look like.I began

Autodesk has released SketchBook Pro 2009, its painting and illustration program, designed for users of tablets and tablet PCs.Autodesk SketchBook Pro software is your digital sketchpad. Use it in any creative process where pen and paper would traditionally be used, including* Product concept and ideation* Illustrations* Character studies* Set and level designs* Storyboarding* Annotation and reviewSketch NaturallyFree up the sketching process with ultra-responsive digital pencils, pens, markers, and airbrushes that look and feel just like the real thing.Annotate InstantlyQuickly take snapshots of your current application, and load and view images or digital photographs. Use SketchBook Pro’s brushes to mark up and add comments. Annotations can be emailed directly to colleagues and clients

In the summer of 1961, eighteen-year-old Richard Manuel joined Ronnie Hawkins’ backing group, The Hawks, along with Levon Helm on drums, Robbie Robertson on guitar and Rick Danko on bass. Garth Hudson joined the band around Christmas time. After two years, Manuel along with Helm, Robertson, Danko, Hudson and saxophonist Jerry Penfound left Hawkins and [...]

In March 1916, eight-year-old Peg Entwistle came to America with her father and her uncle, both stage actors. In 1922, her father was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Peg and her two half-brothers were taken in by their uncle. 1925 brought Peg her first acting role, a walk-on part in Hamlet. This led to the [...]

The story of the YFZ (Yearn for Zion) isolated compound in Texas has been front and center in the news for the past few weeks. One of the most intriguing parts of this story is the women of the community. Since the first pictures of the women surfaced, I know I have been fascinated by their [...]

Slice of life at its finest. As Lucky Star was ending, a friend and I went looking through the Fall 2007 lineup to see what series would be best to replace it in terms of random, simple “it’s funny because it’s true” humor. Based on the blurbs we read about sketchbook we felt confident it [...]

Born Albert Van Ecke in Brooklyn, New York, Albert Dekker made his professional acting debut with a Cincinnati stock company in 1927. Within a few months, Dekker was featured on Broadway. Dekker moved to Hollywood in 1937, and made his first film, The Great Garrick. He returned to the stage and replaced Lee J. Cobb as [...]

“She left her home one morning/For her school not far away./And no one dreamed that danger/Was lurking near that day” On December 15, 1927, Marion Parker, the 12-year-old daughter of Perry Parker, a prominent banker in Los Angeles, was abducted from her school. Nineteen-year-old Edward Hickman showed up at the school Marian attended with her twin [...]

Born Harriet Shapiro on July 9, 1927 in Boston, Susan Cabot grew up shuffled between 8 foster homes. She developed an interest in acting and singing – performing evenings at Manhattan’s Village Barn. A film career seemed destined when the nightclub singer appeared in the 1947 film Kiss of Death with Colleen Gray and Victor [...]

This award winning short film was written, directed and animated by Tony White who is known for his versatility and range of styles, way back in 1978. His career includes twenty years at Animus Productions/Entertainments as president and founder, seven years at Richard Williams Animation Limited as personal assistant to Richard Williams on A Christmas Carol (Academy Award), five years at Halas and Batchelor as Head of Design, Director, Designer, Animator of numerous projects such as the animated tv series Jackson Five and Tomfoolery, various commercials and short films.The film brings to life the worlds of Japanese ukiyo master, Katsushika Hokusai (best known for his iconic The Great Wave). Hokusai's work is so pervasive in Japanese culture that you can still see it influencing today's ar

Two views from Circular Quay - Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Ferries (pencil, 8" x 11") - Sydney Opera House from Wolfie's (coloured pencils, 8" x 11") copyright Katherine Tyrrell My new series on Travels with a Sketchbook in Australia has started over on my other blog, Travels with a Sketchbook in...... My sister Helen lives in Australia and in 1997 I visited her and her husband Phil

Two views from Circular Quay - Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Ferries (pencil, 8" x 11") - Sydney Opera House from Wolfie's (coloured pencils, 8" x 11") copyright Katherine Tyrrell My sister Helen lives in Australia and in 1997 I visited her and her husband Phil and my 'soon to be three' niece Kate in Sydney, the largest city in Australia and the capital of New South Wales. Making a

Two more of my book reviews for The Big Drawing Book Review. These two are about books which provide advice on developing an artist's sketchbook. They adopt a different approach to looking at how an artist approaches choosing and using a sketchbook. Both will be of particular interest to those who use watercolour. Describing how you produced a sketch shouldn't be difficult for most artists

Lots of my sketches on my travels end up being done in restaurants, cafes and tea rooms. One day I may do a book......... In the meantime, this summary post lists all the sketches by title, with their locations. I've organised it geographically in case anybody else fancies having a go at sketching the same view. I'm also planning to post more of my sketches in various restaurants and other

Click for clearer image and to enlarge: The vase and carnations on the left is gouache, and the other sketches are watercolor. These sketches from the past few days have been done in a Hand Book Journal, sold by Dick Blick and other art stores. The paper is very thick and holds up to water media quite well.

Click image to enlarge: From time to time, I really enjoy doing more sketchbook work while I shift gears. These are both watercolor sketches. Now that plein air season is coming to a close, I’m exploring other possibilities for winter subject matter. I’m excited about diving back into portraiture and figure drawing. I’m also getting ready for my North Salem show. Today I pulled out a lot of my paintings from the area and started sifting through to decide what will go into the show and what I won’t have room for. I’ve got to start varnishing soon and selecting frames…like tomorrow!

Hace unos días la gente de Frozen-Layer Fansub estreno nueva serie, Sketchbook, no la eh visto todavía pero párese esta buena.La serie se basa en la vida diaria de Sora, la protagonista que se la pasa dibujando en todas partes, es una obra de Totan Kobato, cuanta con 13 capítulos de los cuales ya están para descargar 3 por torrent ingresando Aca!

Street Sketchbook: Inside the Journals of International Street and Graffiti Artists I can honestly tell you I was never a fan of graffiti, like any art-form there is good art and there is bad art. Now graffiti falls into that category also. I would not be a happy camper to be the recipient of scribbled lettering on my building. However, walking and driving upon my fair city I came across some interesting pieces of art on buildings that were given free reign by the owner of edifice. Then as I travel through the hi-way, there are many fly by night spray painters who scrawl etchings of distorted lettering that make no sense. As you comb through the cities in most North American cosmopolitans you will find some interesting pieces of art as collected by the latest book from Chronicle Books about the art and the culprits, I mean artists. You will find something of interest for all, just make sure your local city counsellors or authorities don’t get a copy, maybe they’ll bo

digital images and photograph copyright Vivien Blackburn I should be getting on with the paintings of C0rnwall in progress and maybe be working on the waterways project - but I'm always juggling lots at once and I wanted to carry on with these digital images I've been working on.They've been in and out of Corel Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop and I couldn't tell you exactly what I've done to them! They started life as photos, close ups of flowers - the rest is layers, filters, cropping, adjusting colour and contrast and levels and .................. ......... etc etc etc!I'll upload some of these to my Imagekind account I think and will also give some thought to developing paintings from them. Some would work fantastically well in watercolour - if I'm good enough, not sure if I am though. They would involve careful layering and patience and that isn't something I'm strong on. I'll also try some in mixed media on canvas. I think they'd work really well in those

Not surprisingly journal keepers have specific material requirements about their supplies....avid journalers are on the brink of being book fetishists, collecting jounals on trips and receiving them as gifts. They can recite names of companies that produce blank books the way people know wines or shoe labels (care for a Daler Rowney?) and are on more than nodding terms with a wide array of pens

Fish! Supper 11.5" x 17", pen and ink in Daler Rowney sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell Last Friday I started a new 'big' sketchbook and this was the very first sketch - a double page spread drawn in pen and ink. I have 'a thing' about the first sketch in a new sketchbook. I have to try and set the tone by making sure it is a good one and if possible I like it to be a challenge as well.

Sketchbook’s homepage has a preview video up, though it’s quite hard to find (it’s a white rectangular icon with black text near the top of the page) It wouldn’t play at the correct speed on my computer (>_<) but I still managed to enjoy it and realize some things:

"Leaves from a Sketchbook" - a view of part of the exhibition at the Bankside Gallery Yesterday I visited the current exhibition at The Bankside Gallery. "Leaves from a sketchbook" shows how work progresses from the sketch to completed artwork - as print or watercolour painting and as exemplified by the working processes of members of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers or the Royal

This post is going to link to all the posts I've previously written about assembling a tool kit for sketching plein air. First off, everybody's idea of what they need is different - there is no one right answer. You need to experiment to find out what works for you. Different circumstances also require different kits - you need to think about where and how long you will have to carry yout kit

Early Morning Garden. Watercolour, sketchbook.Out and about early this morning I snatched a moment to doodle the morning garden just as it emerged from the shadows with the first rays of the day catching the tops of the lavenders. Tall verbena flowers nod on delicate stalks like wandering sprits in the gloom. The air is already warm and scented with the heady notes of sweet peas and honeysuckle. Have a good weekend.

Watercolour and pencil. Moleskin Sketchbook. Click it to see a bigger version.Todays offering is from my sketch book. Due to a great deal of illustration work that has winged its way to my door I am only going to be able to snatch time for sketch book work. This was during a very pleasant tea break in my garden. Noel our farmer neighbour is about to cut the field for hay so, as finally summer seems to have arrived, I doodled this as I drank my tea and also drank in the beautiful summers day. What is it about sun, warm air and birdsong that sooths the soul so very much. I sit in the shade of the tree, in the inky shadows and feel so peaceful despite the mountains of work waiting inside.Anyway, wherever you are, I hope you enjoy this little bit of summer sketchbook.

Valeria's Palm, Baga Beach (1993) 8.5" x 11.5", coloured pencil in Daler Rowney Sketch Book copyright Katherine TyrrellI get asked a lot whether or not I sketch on the reverse of sketches already completed. The following is the latest example. I see lots of sketchbooks in art books and websites (including yours) where they sketch across the binding of the sketchbook to fill two pages. But since I have not actually seen the sketchbook, I always wondered if they sketch back to back throughout the whole book or do you leave two pages blank and then do another set of two? Because if you draw or paint on the back of a painted on page, then it could bleed and ruin the artwork behind it.The answer is "Yes" - I sketch on the back of sketches. Let me explain why - but do remember that I tend to sketch with pencils, coloured pencils and pen and ink and very rarely use watercolour these days. Another caveat is that those who have watched me work say I apparently have an incredibly light touch

$100 via PayPal, $5 shipping within US (email me for international rates) 6 x 6″, Oils on sealed, primed hardboard, unframed Tilly Foster Farm is an old horse farm that was purchased a few years ago by Putnam County to retain as open space. It has beautiful rolling fields, old buildings and barns, and a fantastic overview of miles and miles from the top of the pastures. This painting was done from a photo I took there in the fall. Making a Multi-Media Sketchbook I’ve made a number of sketchbooks over the years and have recently been asked to share some of them. This is perhaps the easiest, most useful, and most versatile of them all. The biggest advantages to this design are that many different kinds of paper can be used for various media and effects, plus the paper can be removed easily for framing. Use any kind of cardboard, foamcore, illustration board, or matboard for your covers. I used scrap pieces of matboard that I had around the house and cut two pieces to the sam

The refectory windows at Fountains Abbeypen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in daler Rowney A4 sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellI've started to post on my blog "Travels with a Sketchbook in....... " a series of plein air sketches that I did recently on my trip to the north of England. Over the next week or so I'll be posting sketches of:The Rill Garden at Wollerton Old Hall Garden, near Market Drayton in ShropshireThe view from Sutton Bank - the finest view in Yorkshire according to 'James Herriot'Fountains Abbey - part of a world heritage site in North YorkshireViews from Rievaulx Terrace, North YorkshireThe ruins of the cistercian Abbey of Rievaulx, North YorkshireThe centre of Helmsley in Ryedale, North YorkshireThe sketches plus short versions of the text will also be posted on 'Making a Mark' - together with a link to the longer blog post on 'Travels with my Sketchbook' for those who'd like to know more about the locationI'll also update the summary post on both

The refectory windows at Fountains Abbeypen and sepia ink and coloured pencils in daler Rowney A4 sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellI'm interrupting the posts about Kent for a new section of sketches recently done on my trip to the north of England. Over the next week or so I'll be posting sketches of:Fountains Abbey - part of a world heritage site in North YorkshireThe Rill Garden at Wollerton Old Hall Garden, near Market Drayton in ShropshireThe view from Sutton Bank - the finest view in Yorkshire according to 'James Herriot'Views from Rievaulx Terrace, North YorkshireThe centre of Helmsley in Ryedale, North YorkshireThe ruins of the cistercian Abbey of Rievaulx, North YorkshireI'll also update this summary post with links to sketches as I post them this week.In future, I'll be transferring sketches done in the past in the north of England and adding new ones as they happen and I'll then update this summary post as I post.Sketches to be transferred from Making A Mark inclu

Bluebell Beginnings8" x 12", coloured pencil on Arches Hot Press paperAntique White mat, American Oak Frame £195copyright Katherine TyrrellThe next section of this blog will feature sketchbook blog posts (from Making a Mark) which are about places in Kent. These all include sketches which are drawn in pencil or pen and ink and then completed using coloured pencils.The summary list of posts relating to Kent - in the order they were published is as follows:The kitchen garden at Chartwell, Churchill's former homeSketching bluebells at Emmett's GardenThrough the fence (Emmett's Garden)The White Garden, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, KentIghtham MoatAutumn at SissinghurstKnole House in KentThese posts will be posted after this summary and the hyperlink to each post will be added to this summary as each is published.I'll also include a date at the end of each post of when it was first published on 'Making A Mark' but otherwise won't comment further.In future, this summary will be:inclu

The Palm House, Kew Gardenspencil and coloured pencils in Daler Rowney sketchbookcopyright Katherine TyrrellI've created a summary of my all my sketches of places in London which are now posted on my Travels with a Sketchbook blog. I'm adding blogposts and sketches slowly to my sketchbook blog and they're by no means all included as yet however there are now a goodly number - hence this summary. I intend to update the summary on a regular basis - probably at the end of every month if I've posted sketches relating to London in that month. A link to this summary is also now included in the 'trip summary' bit of the links to my websites section in the right hand column of both blogs.Sketches are grouped according to which area of London they belong to and then ordered according to the date they were done rather than the date they were posted as transfers to my other blog are still being done.A link to the latest sketches last Friday - of the Palm House at Kew Gardens and another v

This is a summary of all the sketches on this blog which relate to London. I'll update it at the end of every month if I've posted sketches relating to London in that month. Recent sketches in London can see seen either in the list of posts relating to the current month in the archive or by clicking on the category 'London'. A link to this summary is included in the 'trip summary section' in the right hand column.The sketches are ordered according to the date they were done rather than the date they were posted as I'm still transferring sketches to this blog. Sketches are also grouped according to the area of London.Central LondonSt Paul's Cathedral from Tate Modern - this includes a view of the Millenium foot Bridge over the River Thames10th International Sketchcrawl - the results a fish stall in Borough Market, London Bridge looking east towards the Tower of London and and Tower Bridge, outside Southwark Cathedral, Wright Brothers, an Oyster and Ale House, Southwark Bri

Hardcover with colour, pencil and pen and ink illustrations.96 pages. 10" × 11¼"(25 cm × 29 cm).ISBN 981406811X; ISBN-13 978-9814068116. Last year I bought London Sketchbook: A City Observed (Sketchbook) with watercolour paintings by artist Graham Byfield and text by architecural writer and conservationist Marcus Binney.I'd previously acquired the Venice Sketchbook, in the same series, and had found it tremendously helpful when I was trying to locate different places worth drawing or painting prior to visiting Venice in 2005. I was naturally intrigued to see what sort of places had been selected for sketching on my home turf - London."When a man is tired of London he is tired of life......""Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which

The "Travels with my Sketchbook" page from my websitehttp://www.pastelsandpencils.com/travels_with_a_sketchbook.htmlIn future, in order to keep all the sketches I do on on my travels in one place, I intend to use my Travels with a Sketchbook blog for all the sketches from various activities associated with my trips to places in London and the UK - as I currently do on my website - see the Travels with a Sketchbook web-page (above) on www.pastelsandpencils.com.It will also continue to be used, as it has been in the past, for blogging about:the sketches I do on international trips,art kits/supplies for sketch trips andthe sketchbooks of other travelling sketchers (focused on people who sketch about places or use categories to collect all their sketches done on travels in one place)To get this started I'm going to post the images and narrative from past posts from this blog (which a number of people will not have seen) on the Travels with a Sketchook blog. I also want to try and organi

The "Travels with my Sketchbook" page from my website http://www.pastelsandpencils.com/travels_with_a_sketchbook.html In future, in order to keep all my sketches done on my travels in one place, this blog will be used for sketches from various activities associated with domestic travels. It will also continue to be used, as it has been in the past, for blogging about: sketching on international

A quick sketch of the crowd at the Renoir exhibition - done at the time in biro and coloured later with those Lyra 'skin tones' set of coloured pencils - I really like them :>) - these are on loan from the college I work at but I must buy a set. They have a lovely range of colours from honey, through siennas, cool browns, dark browns, honey and an almost caput mortem - that dead purple (literally dead head in Latin from the colour of corpses!) that's ideal for some shadows.The tiny lady with the bun at the front I just had to draw! She had so much character, She had a hunched back and this suit with incredibly wide shoulders and that lovely cottage loaf bun hairstyle. I was exhausted by then, sitting listening to the headphones on the benches and trying work up the energy to move on :>) Incidentally, this is my first sketch in a moleskine sketchbook - as people kept raving about them I thought I'd try one. On the first page I simply tried out scribbles of the different media I

Pencil sketch. Bringing Shadowbinders back from the bottom of the art bin as Amerimanga. This is the "Spritle" of the series, Andrew.Pencil sketch. Bringing Shadowbinders back from the bottom of the art bin as Amerimanga. This is the "Spritle" of the series, Andrew.