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Sketching a bus stop in the rain
One page in four stages, from a wet pavement to a yellow bus, drawn in twenty minutes under a shelter.
- 24
Why I always start with the line
Pencil first, always, and what happens to a page when you try colour before it.
- 23
A travel watercolour tin, tested
Twelve small pans, one brush and a month of drawing outside in every weather.
- 22
Ten minutes at a café table
What you can draw while the coffee cools, and why I stop at ten.
- 21
Balconies at dusk
A row of old apartment balconies, the first lights and how I drew the rhythm of the railings.
- 20
Drawing in the wind on the river wall
How to hold a page that wants to fly away, and why windy drawings are my favourite.
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Sketchbook Notes
A short letter every Monday: one page from my sketchbook and the story of how it got made.
“The one email I open the day it lands.”