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Category Archives: Tips for the Travel Sketcher
Workshop in July! Landscapes
With summer here and things opening up a bit, a workshop in the great outdoors seems like what we all need. If you were at the Barn Workshop then you know the venue, and the wonderful vistas. Over the last … Continue reading
Posted in Tips for the Travel Sketcher, Workshops
Tagged landscapes, travelsketching, Watercolor, Workshop
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My sketching setup
Travelsketching often means sketching while sitting or standing in odd places and positions, thus making it a challenge to juggle a sketchpad, pallet, water, etc. When sketching at a cafe or a pub your setup it is pretty easy – … Continue reading
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Tagged how to, pallet, setup, tips, travelsketching
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How to Travelsketch from Photos, and some recent sketches
One of the delights of being a Travelsketcher is being immersed in a place, soaking up the sights and sounds of the people going by, the breeze blowing, while your sketchpad and paints connect you to the environment, actually making … Continue reading
Posted in ink, Tips for the Travel Sketcher, Travel journal
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Take a journey near to home, join me
Join me on a journey close to home, sketching along the way Le Confinement has changed our travel habits, Tolkien wrote Roads go ever ever onUnder cloud and under star,Yet feet that wandering have goneTurn at last to home afar. … Continue reading
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Pallet reset, rethinking my colors
If you want tons of comments on a FB post just ask, “What is the best…” color, paint, pen, brush, pallet, paper, sketchpad, ink…? A myriad of sketchers will eagerly give you the right advice, while of course clarifying why … Continue reading
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5 Tips for Creating Depth in a Sketch
We may get the shapes right, the colors right, and yet the sketch looks flat, why? Objects need context for them to make sense to our brain. Here are few tools to help add depth and dimension to your sketches. … Continue reading
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How to sketch a tricky scene
Some of the scenes before us are more challenging to capture than others; we sketch then we are frustrated. Usually it is because we fail to follow the tried and true steps that have brought us success in the past. … Continue reading
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Adapt your sketching style to the situation
What is your Travelsketching style? Trick question! You need more than one to make it work. Here are some examples of the different styles I have used on this trip to Tokyo and Seoul, with explanations as to why I … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Tips for the Travel Sketcher, tokyo
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3 Times not to travel-sketch
Yes! I always have something with me so I can sketch, always. Yes! Sketching always beats taking selfies. Yes! Sketching makes travel exponentially more rewarding and memorable. Travel-sketching is all about capturing the moment, slowing down enough to actually look and … Continue reading
Three reasons to dig out your viewfinder.
Someone may have given you one as a gift or you picked one up out of curiosity – a viewfinder. Or you were shown the neat trick of using your hands as a viewfinder, reminiscent of movie directors in comedies … Continue reading
Posted in ink, sketch, Tips for the Travel Sketcher
Tagged perspective, sketch, tips, viewfinder
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