Know your ups and downs and your right from your left. To help get some basic perspective right, without a lot of complicated talk about vanishing points, draw two intersecting lines. Start with your eye level line. Then draw a vertical line that intersects at a point straight in front of you. These two lines…
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A hot week in Avignon
One of my weather apps says that the average high temperature for August in Avignon is 88F. The whole time we have been here it has been between 96-100F, so on the average it has been too hot to go out much. We have ventured out for foraging in the morning when it was a…
theTravelsketcher’s Tuesday tip
The key to expansive landscapes is to connect them with something in the foreground. Here is a sketch of Mount Hood in Oregon. Notice the difference when you had a focal point in the foreground. Give this a try this week and let me know how it works out.
theTravelsketcher’s Tuesday tip
For 30 years I have traveled the world with a sketchpad, along the way I figured out, learned, and borrowed some tips and tricks. So on Tuesdays I will pass them along, most are quite simple, I hope they help. Do let me know if they do. Tip – use a darker line for the…
Sidelined by a microbe in Nanterre
Last Wednesday the homeless viruses of the area decided they needed a place to hang out, and I was chosen to be their AirBnb. In spite of the efforts of the Airborne that we took I succumbed to their invasion for a few days of coughing and sniffing. Thankfully for me, they checked out yesterday,…
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