Sketch. Explore. Create!
Thoughts, ideas and a peek into my creative practice, with the aim to inspire and encourage you in your own creative journey. Let’s enjoy creativity together.
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New art materials and the learning curves that comes with it (opens the original)
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Finding inspiration from other art forms: Music (opens the original)
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When did you last put on a CD, LP or cassette, lied down on the carpet and allowed yourself to be pulled into the music? Gave your imagination the permission to roam wherever the music lead. Doing this is something I distinctly remember from my teen years. It happens to also co-inside with a time of my life when I wrote the most songs and poems. A time when music wasn’t just something to play in the background while doing something else, but something that inspired and pushed my art forward.<em
The joy of colour pallet collecting (opens the original)
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Those who have been following along for a while now will have read about our family’s trip to South Africa and Namibia earlier this year. And today I want to share with you one of the practises that I really enjoyed doing while on the trip. Something that I also got immense joy out of:<source type="imag
Painting my sketchbook cover with Poscas (opens the original)
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I recently filled this sketchbook and now it is time to paint the cover. This time around I am only using poscas (acrylic markers) and I like the graphic feel that I manage to get with the design and materials choice.Hope you enjoy it and that it gives you some ideas on how to decorate your own sketchbook covers.Enjoy!NinoSketch. Explore. Create! is an AI free publication, with art made with physical art supplies and no AI text generation. Become a free or paid sub
A tour of one of my favourite sketchbooks (opens the original)
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After 3 years and many sketching adventures I can finally bring you a tour of what is probably one of my favourite sketchbooks up to date. I used this sketchbook exclusively for observational drawing, most of it with one or other group of Urban Sketchers. And given that it is slightly bigger than the sketchbook I would normally carry around in my bag, it very quickly became my go to sketchbook for Urban Sketchers meetups. At these meetups I knew that I had more time for each individual sketch th
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