“Guilty pleasures”, one of a series of sketches in Amsterdam. I often finish them in my studio, but try to keep the random overall impression as much as possible. The methods to stimulate your creativity and personal style are actually childishly simple. One of them is, in the words of Frank Webb: “look intently at your subject, then close your eyes. What you see with your mind’s eye, you then paint, without looking at the subject”. ( a still more simple method that I have been using all my life, is BLIND CONTOUR DRAWING. That’s for next time, if you’re interested).