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’m Laurie, I’ve lived in San Francisco for the last 30 years. Before that I lived in Australia for about 15 years, and a bunch of other places before that. Since 1985 I’ve been a graphic designer and illustrator. I’ve been working on the computer ever since the first Mac Plus came out. About 6 years ago I did a field sketching class in the Sierra Nevada with John Muir Laws and realized that I needed to get back to working without an undo button, getting my fingers dirty and looking at the world with my own eyes, without electronic mediation. I decided to develop a regular sketching practice, but could never get my friends to come out with me. So two years ago I set up a weekly Meetup group, http://www.meetup.com/SF-Sketchers/ and discovered that lots of other people also wanted to ditch their electronic devices and sketch on paper, in company with other people.
I’ve admired Liz’s work on flickr and in her blog for a long time, and am excited to learn more about her approach to sketching.
You can find me on flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lauriewigham/
Hi Laurie,
I just joined this course, a little late. I live in Oakland and go to your meetups.
Sandee Shultz
You’re the Sandy who came to the mountains with me last month, no? Have I been spelling your name wrong all this time? Apologies!
Hi, I am Tyanne (rhymes with Diane). i have been drawing for about 6 years now after being a long time quilter. i have always loved and felt confident with color but felt I could not draw. Slowly that has been changing. I have admired Liz’ work for years so could not resist taking this class. It looks like it will be fun.
Dearest Liz,
I am so excited to start your class, I love your style of art and that’s why I am so excited to learn from you.
I am new to art, but right now we are moving from our home in Palmdale CA to Oxnard, CA. So I have been quite busy packing, but as soon as we get settled I look forward to starting my assignments. Liz I love it that you give us assingments to work on. Thank you for this class I really look forward to learning from you.
Kalena here, I live in Anacortes Washington, I’m a member of Anacortes Sketchers ASk.
I enjoy learning about drawing and water color. Grew having had someone tell me that I could not even draw stick people right…so spent many years not bothering to try! As a ‘grown up’ I realized that was a personal lie and decided to give it a try! I’ve done just about every other craft imaginable over the years so why not this!
It’s fun and challenging and I have found it is possible to learn with practice and instruction and lots of patience!….and I’ve met so many wonderful people in the process! Now I can include all of you too! K
Hello! I’m Melissa Wiley, a children’s book author and mom of six in San Diego, California. I have had a lifelong yearning to draw and paint, but my efforts to learn how have been few and fleeting. In a costume design class in college we read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and spent a few class periods doing negative space exercises, and I was entranced–but I was busy doing other things and didn’t persevere with sketching after the class moved on. After I had children I began doing some nature journaling with them, but again I’ve been quite sporadic about my own work, much more a facilitator of theirs. My kids can draw circles around me! 😉
This past year, I’ve been watching a lot of art tutorials on Youtube with my kids, and for the past couple of months, my youngest daughter and I have been enjoying working in our art journals together while listening to audiobooks. This past fall I took a short Line Drawing class with Lisa Congdon and an Art Journaling class with Dawn Devries Sokol, both via Creativebug, and those have inspired me be consistent about doing art on a daily basis. I am just about to finish my first course with Sketchbook Skool and heard about this workshop on the SBS Facebook page. I couldn’t resist! So here I am.
I have been fortunate to have my books illustrated by some truly wonderful artists, including Erwin Madrid, Sebastien Braun, Ag Jatkowska, and Melissa Iwai. I admire and envy their talents! 🙂
In addition to writing books, I have been blogging about my family’s reading life and other adventures for nearly 10 years at Here in the Bonny Glen (http://melissawiley.com/blog ).
Twitter: @melissawiley
Instagram: @bonnyglen
Melissa,
I enjoyed a peruse of your blog. I see you’ve read most of Helene Hanff’s books! I love all of those and reread them frequently. Took my teen daughter to London in the Spring (also homeschooling, originally 6, two now graduated) and we hunted down the much changed premises of 84 Charing Cross Rd. Many lovely old bookstores still nearby. It was good sketching territory. (I wrote to Hanff as a teen and got a postcard back with her famous address across the top … now a permanent bookmark in my beat up copy of “84”.)