Friday, 26 April 2019

Using Your Sketches In A Simple Calendar

So, you've all of these wonderful sketches you've made. What do you do with them now once you've scanned or photographed them and posted them online? Well, one thing you might like to do is to make your own calendar. It's really quite simple to make a basic calendar using Word. If you don't think your computer skills are up to it, don't worry, it's simple, and I've put together a little tutorial video to show you how it's done. Because I can't post videos of much more than a minute, this is actually in 3 parts.







State Capitol Building - Nebraska USA

Today's prompt on Sketching Every Day was Capitol buildings. Well, there are a lot of American members of the group - nothing wrong with that either. So I spent half an hour or so this morning looking at photos of the various capitol buildings o each state. The vast majority of them are very reminiscent of THE Capitol Building in Washington DC. I decided to go for something a bit different. This is the capitol building of the state of Nebraska. I like it, even though, judging by some of the lists that it features on it certainly isn't everybody else's cup of tea. This particular 1920s/30s idiom is one I'm quite familiar with. Swansea's Gwyn Hall and Magistrate's Court are quite reminiscent, and the Great West Road and Western Avenue of my home town of suburban West London had several buildings in this particular 'Metroland' style.

Catching Up . . .

Been a while, hasn't it?  Don't worry, I haven't given up sketching. No, I just haven't got round to posting anything. Now, ...