Learn to enjoy your pencil. “I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.” Vincent Van Gogh “I love the quality of a pencil, it helps me get to the core of a thing.” Andrew Wyeth For me it is a Blackwing pencil, there is pleasure in just putting marks on paper with no…
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TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip
A pencil is good for more than just laying out a sketch, with ink it works well for shade. I use a Blackwing and a 5mm 4B in a lead holder.
We will always have Paris
“Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.” – Janice Macleod Hard to believe that my next post will be from the USA, our two years and seven month time in France ends on Sunday. What a ride it has been. We decided to spend the last week in Paris, one of our…
From theTravelsketcher’s journal
From my journal pretty much the way I wrote it, grammar errors and all. Monday August 26, 2024. Just nine weeks until we go back to the US. I think I am ready but it seems so final. Since 2019 we have been planning France, then all the work of getting our visas in 2021,…
A cooler week in Avignon
Not sure if temperatures below 92F qualify as cool, but compared with the 99-100F we have had it seemed better, or maybe we are just acclimating a bit. I got out on a few afternoons just for sketching, quite nice. Since I am contemplating switching to oils from acrylics I have been using Procreate to…
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