Travelsketching often means sketching while sitting or standing in odd places and positions, thus making it a challenge to juggle a sketchpad, pallet, water, etc. When sketching at a cafe or a pub your setup it is pretty easy – you have a table in front of you. So the only real decisions are which…
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3 Times not to travel-sketch
Yes! I always have something with me so I can sketch, always. Yes! Sketching always beats taking selfies. Yes! Sketching makes travel exponentially more rewarding and memorable. Travel-sketching is all about capturing the moment, slowing down enough to actually look and see what you spent all that money and vacation time to be standing in front…
Three reasons to dig out your viewfinder.
Someone may have given you one as a gift or you picked one up out of curiosity – a viewfinder. Or you were shown the neat trick of using your hands as a viewfinder, reminiscent of movie directors in comedies about movie directors. (The hand thing really is a good tool which should be used…
Nature Sketching Workshop
I am so thrilled to be partnering with Nature Together to do a workshop on sketching nature – hopefull there will be more in the future. Nature Together Sketching Wednesday April 17, 10am-12.30pm at Nature Together shop in Mukilteo, Washington $60 includes Professional travel size watercolor pallet Waterbrush Micron 02 pen Sketchpad theTravelsketcher’s tip sheet…
Where do I start?
One of the challenges when travel sketching is where to start. Admittedly every artist has their own valid approach. Yet we often get hung up in the details, trying to create a sketch that looks like a photo, this can be intimidating and frustrating. Beyond that it goes against the key idea behind travel sketching…