The teapot in Bath, and a street in Kyoto are both travel sketches yet they do not qualify as urban sketches. The teapot was done on location yet it does not qualify for an urban sketch due to the content. Travel sketching strives to capture the moment, the content reflects a time and place that…
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Testing a new tripod
Most of the time my lap has supported my sketchpad and paints. I like to travel light so that works well. Yet after seeing so many urban and travel sketchers use a tripod for sketching I had to give it a go. So I built one from an old easel – thiswas the trial run….
Painting a tree in Loch Ness
Here is the process I used painting a 2″x2″ canvas using acrylics and a pallet knife.
The Royal Crescent, Bath, England
Travelsketching while on the trip forces you to slow down and savor a time and place, flipping through sketchbook journals after the trip rekindles the feeling of a place better than just photos. TheTravelsketcher has discovered that doing a sketch from a photo after the trip also transports you back to the place a bit….
A quick sketch of Crichton Castle
I did this in about 10 minutes as an experiment with a technique to make travel sketching easy and teachable.
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