It has been a mild and beautiful Autumn. We are getting out for walks, cooking of course, Tricia is swimming three days a week, and I am planning a workshop. Saturday I used the Faber-Castell Matt pencils for a sketch of someplace in Provence. Monday I did some random sketches while we were watching a…
Tag: sketching
Thoughts from theTravelsktcher – Why and what?
Why are we sketching and what are we trying to do? It may seem like an obvious question, but maybe not, the answer will affect how we approach a sketch. All artists, of any medium, are motivated to do art for a variety of reasons – why do they want to paint? But that is…
Thoughts from theTravelsketcher – October 19, 2026
Alexis told me about a quote she saw on instagram many years ago, I like how it applies to life and especially to art. “Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assedly.” So many people I talk with tell me the reason they have never tried to sketch is because they fear it won’t look right….
This week in The Pearl – September 17 ,2026
We are getting cooler days, with a couple of 80F days thrown in just for good measure, but autumn is definitely upon us. Found a couple of paintings I did some time ago, which I am sure I have already used, but they just seemed to fit the season. Next week we are taking a…
This week in The Pearl
Kind of a quiet week. At the moment we are in Mukilteo to meet up with our friends from Paris, former neighbors of ours when we lived in Mukilteo, who are back for a few days. On Tuesday, while Tricia was at her book group, I stopped off at Fields and sketched. Tricia is blogging…
