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. 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: jimblodget.com/blog and to my Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimblodget/ .
Hi Everyone! I’m Barbara from Vancouver, Canada and I am a Sketchbook Skool Skolar and novice sketchbook artist. I have just started sketching and journaling a few months ago and haven really enjoying the journey so far. I am a curriculum designer in higher education and work with health scientists and interactive arts academics including engineers and architects. I have always loved structure and patterns and I am really looking forward to this course with Liz. I have enjoyed other creative pursuits over the years from music to tailoring to knitting. I have a Flickr site and will soon launch my blog. Stay tuned….
Hi, I’m Beth, and I live in Austin, Texas. I accidentally became a technical writer a long time ago, but I’ve always dabbled in art. My degree is in art history, minor in interior design. I’m here because I somehow stumbled onto your blog, Liz, and suddenly had found someone who paints and draws the way I want to paint and draw. Loose and expressive and communicating in real time. I was also toying with the sketchbook and journal ideas, so that’s a plus.
Although I’ve certainly taken fine watercolor and drawing classes over the years, I finally realized that I’m not interested in doing full-blown watercolor paintings or especially realistic drawings. I really just want the suggestion of an experience, a prompt of the memory of where it was and what I was doing. I don’t want to spend gobs of time on it, and I want to move on. But I want to look back at it later and check in to that place. It’s so true that your memory of a place and time is much more vivid if you draw it, even quickly.
And I’ll add that I’ve never felt the least confident with watercolor or with sketching in public places. I’ve done it, but not with brilliant results. 🙂
Beth, that was so well expressed. Thanks for taking the time to voice your thoughts on what you want from sketching.
Hi Beth. I’m Ellen, and also an Austinite. let me know if you’re ever in the mood to meet up and sketch for a few hours..
Beth, I like your career description process as “accidentally.” I also became a technical writer in a less-than-planned way. My experience is that many of us in this field have strong creative interests. I’m looking forward to enjoying this class with you. Barbara, Technical Writer/Instructional Designer from Atlanta, GA, USA.
G’day, My name is Tony. I live at Wentworth Point in Sydney near the Olympic precinct. I have come to art late in life having spent the last 15 years making fine furniture after retiring from business and was looking for something to do. My main aim is botanic art but I am also interested in drawing/painting what is around me and appeals to my eye. I am particularly keen to draw any travelling that I do.
Hi everyone, I’m Amanda and we live in a small village near Windsor in the UK and several months of the year in an even smaller village near Cognac in South West France (lifetime dream realised when I retired four or five years’ ago). So, more of a rural sketcher than an urban one, accompanied by an uncomplaining elderly Border Collie, though he’d probably be delighted if I speeded up a bit! Along with several other people here, I’ve just finished Semester 3 of Sketchbook Skool which was really pushing me a lot. Have admired and followed Liz for a long while, so hope some of her magic will rub off!