I was really honoured a couple of weeks ago to be contacted by Taria Dawson, who runs a couple of websites and a great Youtube channel dedicated to urban sketching: she’d been asked a question by one of her subscribers, and turned to me to help.

The question was about leaving white space in a drawing/painting- the artist had noticed this method in a few artists’ work and quite naturally, wanted to find out the processes involved. It’s a question I am often asked at demos and workshops, so it was great to be asked to focus on the technique.

Taria’s emails resulted in a Zoom interview, which has been turned into an hour long Youtube feature, which you can see here: apologies for the rambling nature of my answers and my untrained speaking style…you would never mistake me for a glib, fluent presenter!!!!! Please take the time to explore all of the video-Taria’s done a great job assembling a really interesting film and her editing skills are very obviously far more developed than my own. Have a look at the links in her comprehensive description below the video…plenty of inspiration to be gleaned form her own sites and films.

Eagle eyed visitors may well notice that there’s a new page added to this site: I’ve been lucky enough to have been commissioned to create video demonstrations for a few venues and organisations over the past, strange year, and it occurred to me that not everyone might have seen them, or even know where they are. So, I added a whole new page with these videos collected in one place: you can find it on the tab cunningly titled ‘Online Demos and Tutorials’…oh, and apologies for the lockdown hair!!!!

I’ll add to this as time goes on, so keep coming back to check.

Thank you all for your ongoing support- it means a great deal to me, and have a great weekend wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing.

Morning….

Today should have seen me in sunny Bridlington, limbering up ready for my appearance on the main stage for a live demo, with a workshop this afternoon, but COVID put paid to that.
Instead, you can watch my demo here- it’s in three instalments, so look for the links to parts two and three on the Artwaves page or Youtube channel…..apologies for the mumbling old chap in the introduction bit.

Get me…all digital!