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, I am Trish. I live in a coastal town on the west coast of Australia. I have always been a stay-at-home-mum to four now grown up and left home children. I have a passion for making books and journals and would love to fill them with watercolour sketches…hopefully!
http://trishsweeneyttime.blogspot.com.au
Hi Trish. I’m also on the coast of Western Australia – in Geraldton. That makes two of us so far! I also love bookbinding and am hoping to learn to work in my journals with more spontaneity and less procrastination!
Fran.
Hi, I’m Cornelia and I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am 36 years old and work as a reference librarian at a small college.
Although I loved to draw as a child, I gave it up at around age 10-12. I got interested in drawing again after discovering Paul Soupiset’s Lentenblog several years ago, and then finding out about urban sketching, but I did not get around to actually following up on this interest until this June, when I moved to a four day work week to allow for better life-work balance. I have been slowly working through the exercises in the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (I’m only about halfway through) as well as taking a 10 week evening class called Drawing and Creative Expression (two more weeks left).
Hi I am Gerry and from Cape Cod in Massachusetts. I became a big fan of Liz Steele in Sketchbook Skool. I am looking forward to learning more about watercolor and pen and ink.
Hi, I’m Linda and I live in a small town west of Boston, Massachusetts. I’m fairly new to sketching, although I have done a bit of mixed media pieces. I taught for thirty- five years and now have more time to get involved in both drawing and photography. Ever since I signed up for this course I’ve been waiting for it to begin.
Welcome, Linda. We are in Acton, MA all the time for Speech and Debate classes. Perhaps we’ll have a chance to sketch together.
I grew up in Waltham, MA. In 1976 I drove my volks wagon to the west coast and have lived in Portland, OR ever since.
Hi, all. I’m Ellen. I live in Austin, Texas. I have been a frustrated artist my whole life. My favorite mediums are watercolor and pen and ink. Urban Sketching and sketchbooks are my new found passion. I started 2 years ago with a concerted effort to keep a sketchbook, learn new techniques and share my art. This class is one more step improve my skills, and stay motivated to paint and draw.