Category Archives: Tips for the Travel Sketcher

Before Instagram there were postcards – “Don’t forget to send me a postcard.” We still send postcards, shopping for them, in my case sketching them, and then mailing them, is a way to interact with the culture, usually a pleasurable … Continue reading →

I love it when folks send a challenging subject to sketch. This one comes from my friend Lori. It is a small lizard in a tree, a lot of gray makes it hard to get the lizard to stand out. … Continue reading →

In any discipline we have strengths and weaknesses. We also have comfort zones and challenges. Much of life is dealing with both. The best advice I ever received about strengths and weakness came from a psychologist friend of mine. He … Continue reading →

When I look back at my sketches from the past a few evoke more vivid memories than others. The sketch triggers a sense of the moment almost as if I was right there. Here is an excerpt from my new … Continue reading →

Thanks to editing help from Tricia, Travels Through My Lens, my book is done. Twenty-five years of traveling for business with a sketchbook in my bag taught me a few things about travel and sketching, I am passing some of … Continue reading →

Getting ready for next week’s workshops while trying out a new watercolor set-up. Usually I use acrylic paint for plien air painting, but I wanted to see how my pochade box worked for watercolor. Here is the result, with a … Continue reading →