Introduce Yourself
Where do you live and what do you?
Have you done much sketching before or are you just starting?
What are your other creative pursuits?
Please include a link to your Flickr account, blog, Facebook page, Instagram, Tumblr etc.
So I’ll go first…
I’m Liz (I think you all know that!)
I live in Sydney, Australia. I’m an architect by profession and worked 20 years on a range of residential and commercial developments, specialising in media projects. I’ve always drawn as part of my work but in 2007 discovered watercolour and started my first daily sketchbook. I haven’t stopped sketching since!
I’m very interested in architectural history and theory and drinking tea out of fancy china teacups… but I’m guessing you all know that too!
You can find me on: Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram and Twitter using the buttons under ‘Connect on Social Media’ in the footer of this website.
Now it’s your turn…
Hi,
My name is Benita and I’m an architecture student who owns a secondhand bookshop and is mother to a three year old. I’m 35, live in Melbourne, Australia and have decided to take this course as one way to keep myself working over the Christmas break. I’m keen to develop my visual communication skills in anyway I can, as well as the confidence to experiment with different media.
I’m very excited and can’t wait to start!
Hi Benita, I live just outside Melbourne – 18 km from Lilydale. Nice to meet you. I’m a bookaholic; where is your bookshop? bfn Sandi
Hi I am Marilyn from Melbourne Australia and counting down to retirement at the end of this year. Have recently started watercolour classes and have also discovered sketching groups on facebook. Have become very excited at the prospect of participating in this course and learning lots more about pen and watercolour sketching.
Hi Marilyn, I’m from just outside the Melbourne metro area – 18 km from Lilydale. Nice to meet you. I am counting down to retirement too. bfn Sandi
Hi Sandi, know Lilydale well. Have a friend at Coldstream and my husband’s family were at Yarra Junction. Have been through Lilydale a few times in the last few months. Hope you enjoy the course. Marilyn
Hi Marilyn, Thankyou. And wishing you happy times with the course too. I am actually in Wandin East; a little off the beaten track. But I know Lilydale very well from the train station; travel those tracks incessantly. I like Yarra Junction; it’s mix of old and new buildings give it character. And of course I visit Warburton whenever I can. The art group I belong to meet in Coldstream. Cheers. Sandi
Hi there … I’m Roger from Manly Beach, NSW Australia! A former educationalist, I share in the running of a B&B, enjoy volunteering and experiencing live drama performances. Sketching became part of my life last year after joining a local studio. I travel overseas every year and hope to use my developing skills in sketching to record my experiences. I’ve just joined Flickr.
Hello everyone, my name is Juergen and I live in Munich, Germany. I was born in Berlin, Germany but I spent my formative years (3-23) in Queens, New York City. I then returned to Berlin, worked, got a degree in computer science, married and eventually moved to Munich because of the mountains. I’m 64 now and my last 30 work years were spent at BMW in the IT departments. Hiking in the mountains with their vistas got me into pencil sketching some years ago. Kelly Medford’s Sketching Rome Tour this past October got me into watercolors but I’m a total novice with that technology. I’d like to learn to sketch quicker because my wife and hiking companions don’t really want to wait all to long for me to finish (amongst other reasons).
I can definitely relate, Juergen. My family would *love* it if I could speed up my sketching. I marvel at how much Liz accomplishes so quickly. Am definitely excited to find out more.
I’m Jen. Worked in field of architecture and interiors for … ages! At one point I used to do architectural illustration for a living – setting up perspectives manually in the days before computers! Then I sort of forgot about drawing until earlier this year.
So I’m a seasoned sketcher but love courses like this to give me motivation and a drawing community. I think being experienced sometimes makes it harder to try new things and experiment, so I love to see how uninhibited the novices are – I envy you! I live in very rural France with a husband and six jack russell dogs. Regularly travel to London for work, and to get a hit of urban city gritty life.
Blog: http://www.jensdraws.com – Facebook page: Jen Grove sketchbook
Hi Jen, I am also in France. Where do you live?
Hi Cassandra and Jen,
I’m also (part-time) in France (very rural Cognac) with an elderly border collie …. where are you all?
Hi Amanda, I’m about 30minutes north of Angouleme, so not a million miles away from you…
Hi Cassandra – I’m in the Charente, near Angouleme, where are you?