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  1. 25

    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.

  2. 24

    Why I always start with the line

    Pencil first, always, and what happens to a page when you try colour before it.

  3. 23

    A travel watercolour tin, tested

    Twelve small pans, one brush and a month of drawing outside in every weather.

  4. 22

    Ten minutes at a café table

    What you can draw while the coffee cools, and why I stop at ten.

  5. 21

    Balconies at dusk

    A row of old apartment balconies, the first lights and how I drew the rhythm of the railings.

    Oct 12, 20267 min readRead: Balconies at dusk
  6. 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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