Hi dear blog followers, With the new book, I'm starting a new blog!!! Please find blog posts, info on workshops, travel sketches, and even my architectural illustration work at: www.drawingperspectives.com I hope you will sign up to receive future posts! I'll be experimenting a bit with format, etc. so if you have any helpful suggestions, please send them my way. I could use the help... :) Thanks so much for your interest! Happy Sketching!!! Stephanie ..read more

GOOD BONES SAN ANTONIO Texas | Perspective + Watercolor Sketching Workshop April 5-6-7, 2019 | Good sketches start with Good Bones! In this workshop, you’ll learn the simple steps to set up the foundations of a great architectural sketch in Perspective and Watercolor. How do you start a location sketch? Where is the darn Vanishing Point? Watercolor is too overwhelming! Held in the amazing historic PEARL DISTRICT along the Riverwalk, this workshop offers 2 full days of instruction. The first day is devoted to learning the fundamentals of on-location persp ..read more

I'm thinking ahead to this summer's Urban Sketching Symposium in Amsterdam! Registration starts bright and early February 2, info is here. There are so many amazing workshops planned, I am truly honored to be a part of the incredible line up of instructors. I'll be teaching a workshop called "Towers are Like Wedding Cakes, and other "Ah-Ha" Moments", featuring some tips and tricks that have inspired a new book I'm working on! I love to teach perspective because it's something so many people fear, ignore, or fake, but there is no need if you understand a few simple principals. In honor of t ..read more

Happy New Year!!! And what a great year it will be!  Just announced, this year will be the 10th Annual global Urban Sketchers Symposium. It's an amazing event to attend, as there is sketching going on 24/7, talented people from around the world to meet and sketch with, and of course the opportunity to sketch in beautiful Amsterdam. I am truly honored and so thrilled to be teaching at this year's event, a workshop called "Towers are like Wedding Cakes and other "ah-ha" moments"! I'll be sharing some of my favorite sketching tips...  "did you know that towers are like wed ..read more

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for this free demo! SIMPLE TIPS THAT EVERY ARTIST NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT PERSPECTIVE Sunday, December 2, 2018 11:00 am - 12:30 pm at Daniel Smith Artist Supplies, Seattle store I'll be giving an interactive lecture on my favorite sketching tips and tricks for understanding perspective. Bring a pencil and sketchbook, as you'll be drawing too!!! Hope to see you there ..read more

Sketching at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX. Urban Sketchers are such creative people! We figure out all kinds of workarounds and tools to make location sketching easier and better!      Those of you who have seen me work in person know that I like to use a tripod/easel and a hand-held palette (for lack of a better word) for painting on location. I've found the easel is essential when I teach, so that people can better see what I'm doing (thanks to the workshop participant years ago who suggested this!) This invention came about after seeing variations on ..read more

Exactly three weeks from now, I will be arriving in HONG KONG! Yes, a good pinching is needed. For this trip, I'll spend 3 days or so in HK (and will get to sketch with the incredible Rob Sketcherman), then fly to Taiwan to teach at an Asian Urban Sketchers symposium called AsiaLink. It's held this in year in Taichung. I am thrilled beyond words, and have to thank the amazing KK for this opportunity. Will be GREAT to see the Aussie contingent! After a week in Taiwan, I'll meet my husband in Japan and hopefully see Kumi and other Japan Urban Sketchers as well. Yes, there will be LOTS of ..read more

Browsing through television offerings two nights ago, I was shocked to stumble upon this...oh my gosh!!!! I suppose it makes sense, as Craftsy was sold to NBC/Universal (parent company Comcast), so of course there would start to be integration with TV somehow. But still, what an amazing surprise! Going forward, the Craftsy Unlimited (subscription) service is becoming Bluprint, with an expanded content of 3,000-plus hours of instructional videos (including courses by Shari Blaukopf, Marc Taro Holmes, Suhita Shirodkar, and Paul Heaston, and more. Craftsy.com will still exist for a la carte ..read more

I love sketching interiors, as they are such personal spaces. I love how rooms connect, one space leading to the next or outside, and I love how they are filled with personal objects loaded with meaning that makes a place feel like home. And I don't even mind sketching the furniture! (which literally may be THE hardest thing to draw!) Every summer, I teach a workshop in the tiny speck of a town, Civita di Bagnoregio in Italy. This year it was unusually cold and rainy, so one morning I just sat down to sketch the interior of the tiny apartment where I stay. Tile floors, tile ceiling, huge ..read more

And here is the final post in this series of 10 TIPS! Sketching Tip #10: Domes are ROUND! This may seem rather obvious, but I see so many sketchers draw domes as sort of flattened out the shapes in which the "edges" are drawn as if they were sharp corners instead of rounded. Domes are essentially a stack of ellipses, each ellipse sharing a common centerline. Take a look at this diagram of the round Radcliffe Camera done in my workshop in Oxford, England last year: You'll notice that this building, similar to a dome, is a stack of ellipses in perspective. All the ellipses are cente ..read more