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 everyone – It is so great to hear from you all!
(I am testing how the unsubscribe feature – to check that it works)
Ros!! Good to see you here too. This looks like it’s going to be lots of fun.
Hi everyone. I’m Jim Blodget. I’ve been drawing and painting for pleasure since I retired in 2008. I love to tinker with all kinds of media. Along the way I’ve been a photographer, film maker, TV producer, director, editor, instructor, media specialist, computer programmer, web designer, and blogger. I’m 66 and live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest (Oregon, USA). Link to my blog: http://jimblodget.com/blog and to my Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimblodget/ .
Hi Jim, I have subscribed to your very interesting blog. Thankyou. But I cannot find a ‘comment’ link or any other way of getting in touch with you. Sandi
Hi everyone, I’m Julia from Milton-near-Boston, I’ve been learning watercolors since 1998 and somewhere along the line started sketching, which is now my passion. I retired 5-6 years ago from a marketing-publishing-corporate management career and have been busier than I ever was when I was working full time. I collect published sketchbooks (Danny Gregory, et al.) as well as facsimiles of sketchbooks by “famous artists” (Prendergast, Sargent, etc.) and I also buy WAAAYYY too many art materials. Now it’s time to use some of them. I follow Cathy Johnson’s blog and also Liz, whom I discovered through Gregory’s and others books. Really excited about this course and hope to loosen up and speed up my sketching. I travel to sketch, and especially enjoy architectural subjects (though my buildings frequently lean like that building in Pisa …)
Shirley Jenkins
Duxbury, MA is my home. I trained as a landscape designer @ Radcliffe College and worked for many years for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Finally I had time to take a watercolor course in 1992 and I have enjoyed painting greatly. I am looking forward to developing better fast sketching skills. Travel has been a big part of my life; the sketchbooks I have are a huge store of happy memories! Here’s to many more!