Twenty-five years ago, this coming January, I boarded a plane at SEATAC airport headed to Racine Wisconsin. Prior to that I had been to Mexico twice, and flights for business in the Western States – a business traveler yet not the road warrior I would become. My life as a seminar speaker was just beginning,…
Author: Terry Christopherson
I sketch, I paint, I travel and eat, that is what my sites are all about.
Travel sketches vs urban sketches, and what about plein air?
The teapot in Bath, and a street in Kyoto are both travel sketches yet they do not qualify as urban sketches. The teapot was done on location yet it does not qualify for an urban sketch due to the content. Travel sketching strives to capture the moment, the content reflects a time and place that…
Fall colors and bare branches
Looking out the window on a blustery fall morning. An abstract collage of color with bare branches crisscrossing the scene.
Inktober 1-3
Every October pen and ink folks do a sketch a day from a list of prompts. This is my first year, hear are the first three days sketches.
Testing a new tripod
Most of the time my lap has supported my sketchpad and paints. I like to travel light so that works well. Yet after seeing so many urban and travel sketchers use a tripod for sketching I had to give it a go. So I built one from an old easel – thiswas the trial run….
