The key to expansive landscapes is to connect them with something in the foreground. Here is a sketch of Mount Hood in Oregon. Notice the difference when you had a focal point in the foreground. Give this a try this week and let me know how it works out.
Category: Tips for the Travel Sketcher
theTravelsketcher’s Tuesday tip
For 30 years I have traveled the world with a sketchpad, along the way I figured out, learned, and borrowed some tips and tricks. So on Tuesdays I will pass them along, most are quite simple, I hope they help. Do let me know if they do. Tip – use a darker line for the…
From Van Gogh to Munch
It is Thursday morning in Bergen, Norway, 1,250 miles from Saint Remy in Provence. I learned a lot from Van Gough in Saint Remy. During our time in Oslo, on the way to Bergen, I was exposed to Edward Munch, the prolific Norwegian painter famous for The Scream. Here is one more of the Van…
Lessons From Van Gogh
While we were in Saint Remy we walked the Van Gogh Trail up to the hospital where he lived in 1888 and 1889. I spent a lot of time thinking about his paintings and made a few observations that are helping me, so I thought I would pass them along. These are in no particular…
An Easy Way To Sketch Flowers
Sketching a bunch of flowers and plants can be a bit daunting. The main reason is that we forget the adage, “sketch what you see, not what you think you see”- we over think it. So here is a quick way to sketch these flowers that were on the terrace at our BnB last night….
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