TRICIA JOHNSON

I’ve been writing a series of blogs this year about using your sketchbook en plein air. The first post I talked about fostering a...

More about sketching on holiday and the equipment I use. My last post I gave you a little overview of sketching and developing a sketching routine. This post I’d like to tell you about our recent 5 day break to the Isle of Wight (https://www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/), which is very close to us and great for a short break and a bit of sketching. I decided to use a concertina sketchbook I’d bought from Seawhites ’ (I like to pop into their factory shop, but you can buy online f

I thought I’d write this post, as I know a lot of my students always intend to sketch while they are on holiday. But as most of us know our sketchbook, pencils and ‘travel’ paints just stay in our case! Over the past few years I have made a point of sketching every day (almost) of my holidays. Over the summer (during my break from teaching) I challenge myself to sketch every day, no matter what. The first few days (sometimes weeks) are terrible, but once I get into it I star

Well my New year’s resolution – write a blog post each month - hasn’t gone well……this is my first post of the year…..sorry

The weekend started with a demo and explanation of how to make our collagraph plates. Then came sketching, designing and plate making....

Reduction lino printing weekend workshop

I had been planning on trying this for several months, but hadn’t got around to it until today. This is going to be just a quick post of...

As some of you know I took up printing about 2 years ago and have been finding my way through the vast array of printing processes ever...