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How to measure our own progress
How we measure our own progress as opposed to how we should be measuring it. One building two sketches few years apart! Sharing my thoughts and learnings.
Read MoreYour Sketching Kit while out and about in your hometown
When out and about we all have our preferred Sketching Kit that we go to. That kit usually changes depending on the place and style of sketching. Packing a kit for sketching in one’s own town is different than packing when traveling abroad. So here is a list of the bear minimum to pack when…
Read MoreUnfolding Stories: Sketching Memories
Earlier this year, March to be exact. I was fortunate to get the opportunity to join the Sanad programme. Unfolding stories, sketching memories. Sanad is a long running programme at the Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre “ASCC”. In Collaboration with Yadawi Crafts who create various crafting sessions dedicated to senior women in the society. Teaching…
Read MoreSketching Kuwait – Souq Mubarakiyah
Just before it gets too hot I wanted to go on a sketching trip to Souq Mubarakiyah. Something I have had on my mind for a while. Then earlier in March this little place called Bait Ahmed popped on my Instagram feed and I was taken by its charm and old time vibes. Decided then…
Read MoreSketching Kuwait – Winter 2021
This winter I was adamant to get as many urban sketching trips into my routine as possible. My last week of sketching in winter 2021 found me at The Avenues, Al Shaheed Park and Boulevard. 06th. of December – The Avenues There is this place at the Avenues whenever I walk through it, I feel…
Read MoreSketching Kuwait Winter 2021
First Week of Sketching Kuwait in the winter of 2021 Now that the weather is finally getting cooler in Kuwait I have decided to go out more and sketch. This has been something that I wanted to do for ages. Come winter, days would go by and I wouldn’t have anything to account for. This…
Read MoreUrban Sketching in Picturesque York
First sketch in York This trip was not about urban sketching or being a tourist first time in York, rather a more personal one. One that included lots of errands and many, many shopping trips with tedious amounts of heavy carrying. Nevertheless, I made sure I had my minimal kit on me every time I…
Read MoreShow Your Work ! By Austin Kleon
Show Your Work is a book I needed to read many years ago. Truth be told in todays world and at the time of me writing this review. Most of you are already doing it anyway. If not only sharing but maybe even oversharing. If like me you have been reading many blog posts, researching…
Read MoreBlack Pens in Sketching and how to choose the best fit
Finding the perfect black pen In my work I like to use black pens or liners over my initial pencil work before or after adding the watercolours to give it that sketchy look. When working in special watercolour sketchbooks I use fountain pens but that’s for another post. For my daily sketching in pocket moleskine…
Read MoreUrban Sketching in Lisbon and the memories I Want to Capture Forever
Urban Sketching and the memories it holds I’ve said it before, urban sketching is the best way to engrave moments and memories in ones brain. They tend to stay and linger there forever, very welcomed I may add. Exploring Lisbon one day going to the Monastery Moisterio Dos Jeronimos I took shelter under the shade…
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