Sketching outdoors with speed
ver the years I have filled countless sketchbooks with all manner of sketches, both at home and abroad, using a range of media and techniques – from water-soluble pencils to line and wash. On a painting holiday in Spain a few years ago, one of my students showed me a new pen he had just purchased with a bent nib. At first glance it looked as though it had been dropped and damaged, but he assured me it was meant to be bent! I couldn’t wait to try it out. I did some quick doodles on a sketch pad and I was
