Happy New Year, everyone! Brand New Year, brand new sketchbook. We’re starting the year with an Acryla Gouache painting and a Youtube video!

I haven’t completed my sketchbook nor posted anything in months. Was it laziness? Maybe. Was it tiredness? Sure. There’s also the worry of not completing the sketchbook the way I intended.

When it comes to sketchbooks, starting a new one has never much been an issue. The problem comes with finishing one. For the past month and a half, I have been less than a dozen pages away from finishing the sketchbook I had hoped to complete by the end of summer. Summer has ended, we are a full month into fall, and I am still a couple of pages away from being done.

I just posted a video of my completed Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook which ends with a tour of my Inktober 2017 sketches. Here are six why I am not participating in Inktober this year.

I joined Urban Sketchers Montreal for a day. This is how it went.

It’s a muggy September in Montreal and I am having an affair with Gouache. Sorry Watercolour! I would say it’s a torrid affair, but it’s too humid for that! Here’s how it all started.

I got really excited, then underwhelmed. This is me being a little frantic… Yeah, right “just a little”.

How I found inspiration in the richness of colour of wilting flowers.

Digitizing and Editing My Watercolour Background. This is what I’ve learned from the experience.