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…
I live in Balgowlah Heights, on the Northern Beaches of Sydney with my husband, our labradoodle and 2 ‘boomerang’ adult children. I was a primary school teacher for 30 years and loved creating art with children but I never had much time to do my own art. Now that I’ve retired, I have the time to follow my interests – sketching, painting, travel and coffee with friends.
The removal of a benign brainstem tumour in 2008 resulted in the restricted use of the right side of my body. I have taught herself to paint and sketch with my left hand. As Liz says…I’ve decided to embrace this wobbly, loose style and develop it. I find that I get ‘lost’ in sketching and this helps me escape from dealing with nerve pain. So more art = less pain! The best medicine!
I’m Carol and I live in Brisbane. I was born in South Africa and lived there until I immigrated to Australia 4 years ago. I went to art school and trained to be a teacher, taught for some time and then did a number of other things including book illustration, mosaic designs, running my garden landscaping company and finally I opened a retail shop with my son and daughter in law.
When I moved here, I convinced them to buy my share in the family business and now earn my living from art. I teach and run workshops from my home studio; paint and undertake commissions.
Sketching was always something I only did while on holiday, now I am making it part of my daily life.
I am glad to see you here Dale and looking forward to a great class.
Hi My name is Dale. I have always been interested in art, drawing and watercolor. No time for art through most of my life, with career and family. Now I have been in SBS Beginning, Seeing and Storytelling and now in Liz’s class. I have met some lovely people in SBS and we have formed a group East Bay Sketchers. We just got together again today. I live in Concord, CA.
Hi, I’m Andrea. I also live in Louisiana and found out about this class through the Facebook Sketchbook Skool group. I started sketching a year ago last October after retiring and visiting an art museum while on vacation. I’ve taken all 3 SBS semesters & have really enjoyed them. Keeping a travel journal while on vacation a few months ago really opened up my eyes as to a new way to more deeply experience my world, both familiar and foreign.