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.
My name is Mila and I currently live in Israel.
Loved Liz’s Sketchbook Skool class, so I decided to enroll.
I’ve always done some kind of art and I’m looking forward to learning to sketch with more spontaneity.
Hi to you all. I am Heather, and I live in Encinitas California, which is a few miles north of San Diego. I am new to art and sketching, but am very excited to start this class. I am originally from New Zealand, and spend a lot of time in Melbourne Australia where my son lives. Gardening and quilting are my other therapies!
Hi. Is this where I introduce myself? Am a retired English teacher with no art training, but have benn dabbling with watercolour and textile art for several years – but it’ s since I discovered Urban Sketching that I feel I may have found my ‘thing’. Belong to both Manchester Urban Sketchers and Yorkshire Urban sketchers. Have followed Liz’s blog and love her work. Hoping to get faster and loosed as I go through the course. My only worry is the technology…..
Hello Anne,
I’m Elaine from Carlisle, which in terms of participants on this course makes us near neighbours. If the techie stuff look daunting, the best I can suggest is – find a teenager, they just make light of it all and at their age they don’t worry about breaking anything. Good luck in the coming weeks.
Elaine,
To have left your IT day job for needlecrafts sounds like a dream come true. I work for an data center consulting firm and I also knit and crochet, so your story resonates with me.
Best of luck in this class and your business.
Marj
Hello everyone, my word this list of greetings is getting very long!
My name is Elaine and I live in Carlisle, Cumbria, close to the English/Scottish border. I’m delighted to see that I’m not the only sketcher from the far North planning to go out in winter. I started drawing just a year ago, but my local art class has lost its tutor, and If I found Liz’s wonderful work while searching for support and ideas on line. I quit my day job as a IT business consultant 2 years ago to teach needlecrafts on a freelance basis and have never been happier. Just planning to make some fingerless mitts to keep my hands warm.
Can we put in orders? It is getting pretty nippy for outdoor sketching in the far west of Wales too – though I did manage a 5-minute sketch today wearing those silly gloves with special finger ends for using with a mobile phone.
Hello Maggie
I see from your intro that you’re way out west in Pembrokeshire – such a beautiful place, lucky you. I’m going to make the mitts from the sleeves of a treasured old sweater, which will be quicker than knitting.
Yes, Pembrokeshire is lovely when it’s not raining….yesterday we had a picnic on the beach in warm sunshine. No need for gloves – and yes I did do a sketch too. I tried making wrist warmers from an old jersey last year, but they were a bit light-weight, so I may have to pinch one of my husbands old sweaters for another go this winter.