Food and art, an oasis in times of trial. As I write this there are 4000 National Guard troops, and 400 Marines in Los Angeles; the authoritarian response for a mostly peaceful protest that the LAPD and the Governor were quite capable of handling on their own. Hope, being the attitude that things could get…
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TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – June 3, 2025
To make your bright areas more intense make your darks darker. I did the painting on the left first, it really did not look too bad. The Sunset at Otter Crest was quite dramatic so I wanted it to “pop”. I darkened the rocks and even the distant, dark, part of the ocean, as well…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – May 27, 2025
Add people to your sketches. Including people in your sketches adds interest and perspective, and it turns it into a story – it is quite simple and they don’t have to be portraits. Check this sketch I did of a road we walked often near our home in France. The first is without a person,…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – May 6, 2025
Even complex or irregular objects are built on the structure of basic shapes. Reduce the object to basic shapes, pencil them in, and then build on them.
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – April 29, 2025
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” Ansel Adams Doing a sketch or snapping a shutter – it becomes art when we think about what we are doing and seeing.
