Museum of Inuit Art

I had fun over the weekend doing some Urban Sketching with the Toronto sketchers at the Museum of Inuit Art. They don't allow watercolours, understandably, so I used a Tombow pen. It has a brush on one end and a nib on the other. It is water-soluble so, I added a bit of finger smudge for shading.

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Toronto Watercolour Society Workshop

I spent last Saturday at a Toronto Watercolour Society Workshop given by the talented and inspiring Mark Thurman. He's a famous Canadian Children's Book illustrator who now teaches Anatomy at Sheridan College. He encouraged us to work with ink and chopsticks (!), pen nibs and watercolour, from a live model. After many gesture poses, I did these 10 minute clothed poses. As often happens in workshops, we were all completely out of our element, but I certainly learned new things to apply to my way of working.

You can see a page of Mark's talent HERE.