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…
Category: Travel journal
The neighborhood journey and working with gouache continues
These sketching projects are proving to be entertaining and challenging, a good thing for art. After doing the sketch of Nic’s Barbershop with gouache I have decided to finish the “neighborhood journey” project all in gouache. As Marie of Expeditionary art says, “practice not perfection.” But with practice you do get better, so onward. One…
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…
Le Containment connecting and coaching
The French word is le containment, or stay-in, shelter-in-place. This all means that any workshops I intended to do in April or May are in limbo. So let’s use this time to connect and improve. On Instagram I started a tag #travelpicsketching – a place to post sketches that we do from our past…
Travel Pic Sketching: 30 days of connecting and remembering
Sketching makes me a time-traveler – care to join me? A microbe, the Coronavirus, has clipped the wings of us travelers and urban sketchers. Some are sketching what we see out of the window, our pets are getting extra modeling time, food and flowers are finding places in our journals like never before. Urban Sketchers…
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