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 – you have a table in front of you. So the only real decisions are which…
Category: Tips for the Travel Sketcher
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 you a part of the action. Sketching on location is the superior experience. Yet there…
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. Since home is where we are traveling these days, lets explore it as a traveler…
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 the comments of others are not the best. However through it all, learning what others…
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. You may not use them all in every sketch but knowing they are there gives…
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