Last Saturday, I was getting close to finishing my revision but decided the brain needed an airing so I went along to the Melbourne Urban Sketchers.
Urban sketchers are basically people who like to sketch on location. You can find out more about them on their website or FB group. They have groups/chapters in lots of places around the world. One day I’d like to go to their annual Symposium. Though it seems to be usually held around the same time as Romance Writers of America’s conference. I have been to the Melbourne USK group a couple of times now. I am trying to go more often this year now that the writing schedule isn’t as crazy.
On Saturday Liz Steel and Paul Wang were visting from Sydney and Singapore respectively and gave a bit of a talk and demo before we all went and sketched around North Melbourne. (The group goes to different locations each time). I know Liz a bit (hers was one of the first blogs I found when I started getting into watercolors and was looking for info in Australia) and I’ve done a class with her and her online course and am generally a fan of her work. She’s also involved in Sketchbook Skool which I’ve blogged about before (new semester just starting up this week if anyone has a yen to try some sketching. All levels are welcome.)
Paul’s work is beautiful, I love the way he uses color, so it was great to see him work in person Because I am a dill, I somehow managed to take my watercolors out of the bag of sketching stuff I keep on hand which was a bit frustrating as I was dying to paint having not really touched a brush most of March while I finished Playing Hard. But I had my watercolor pencils at least, so did some experimenting with using those in different ways. Not sure the results are brilliant but it was interesting and hey, it’s all about trying stuff out.
So that was my latest art adventure. Hopefully the new semester of Sketchbook Skool (I’m doing the Stretching class) will bring about some more! And hopefully I’ll remember the paints!
