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Another iPhone sketch done in SketchClub using a ballpoint pen stylus. This one was done with the Sketchy tool.
So this is my trying to travel light(er) sketching kit, i.e. when I am on the road and not staying in the same place for weeks, or even months, where I would be able to paint in the safety of the home without anybody looking over my shoulders.
The journal fits into the small carry bag and the lot still weighs 1.1kg. Shall see how I am going with this and, if possible, trying to reduce further. 'Theoretically', all one really needs is a pen, an all-important eraser (at least to me...), a sketchbook and, maybe, a few colours.
I am new to 'travel sketching' and, tbh, I am finding sketching in public still intimidating, especially when well-meaning passers-by look over my shoulders, observe, and feel the need to comment :)
Edit 22 January, 2023:
I now tested this kit and all I used during my recent interstate vacation (visiting family and trying to sneak in very little sketching indoors) was the following:
- one mechanical pencil
- eraser
- one felt tip pen
- watercolour palette ***
- two waterbrushes (Pentel Aquabrush), one filled with water, one filled with ink which was, I discovered, not waterproof, nor was the felt tip pen.
- pocket knife to score the paper for veins in a leaf
- sketch book
and, as an after thought: a pipette for easy refilling the reservoir of the waterbrushes.
After returning from my vacation and turning on the desktop mac, it went dead and couldn't be revived :-(
I still have to figure out how to load Photoshop Elements, as well as scanner and printer, on the laptop and hope the old scanner and printer will still work with the new laptop. I am not very good at this and lose patience very quickly with this kind of stuff. Once done, I shall post my humble efforts with waterbrush. Some small sketches worked quite well, others have 'gone bad'.
So, one doesn't really need a lot. The hardest part is to learn to paint with an Aquabrush.
***The palette:
artsuppliesaustralia.com.au/products/jasart-voyager-water...
I am finding this to be a very handy small metal palette. I managed to fit 21 half pans into it.
A suggestion on a website was to glue magnets to the pans to prevent them from falling out. I still have to do this. The lids provide some mixing space. If more mixing space is needed, the whole middle section with the half pans can be lifted out.
That's where the magnets holding the half pans safely in place, come in handy. The edges of the mixing 'flap' are rolled. I think this may be important as unrolled edges may be shar and could be an injury hazard. The rolled edges also provide more stability.
I don't like half pans that much but it allows me to take more colours along. Of course, experienced watercolourists would be able to work with fewer colours and fill the palette with a few full pans.
Sketcher: Sebastian
Date: 10/03/2020
Location: Oʻahu
Medium: Charcoal
Oops – a little late to the party here.
I picked a familiar spot with a street light to be a little daring again. Charcoal was great for capturing the deep blacks and gradations of light. Not much detail in this one though... more block-like.
Fun!
Sketch and wash General's pencil , winsor & newton ultramarine, yellow ochre and burnt sienna watercolors on strathmore 400 series watercolor cold press paper
Feeling unwell today and not at all creative so have posted this little pencil sketch from my Moleskine done few days ago.
Early sketch from EP, my and Magentaking new comic!
See the first live action teaser here { vimeo.com/31253675 }.
More things to come!
Sketch of my tea at lunch today. Still lovin' my new Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.
And the ink is SOLID... it doesn't move under a wash. Yeh! Can you believe it?
Good to see my friend Whytal, who is down for his sister's senior art show at Radford.
This is a test sketch using a new ink, Noodler's Benenke Black. It is a water soluble ink that makes a rich gray when diluted with water. I painted directly with a round brush dipped in water. Earlier in the day I spread some of the ink on a 3x5 card and let it dry to use as a palette. I could then pull the ink off the card with a wet brush and apply it to the sketch. I also filled a fountain pen with the ink and used it to draw the darkest trees on the right and blended with the wet brush. I did the same with a few trees on the horizon line. I really like the slightly warm gray produced by this ink.
Canson Mix Media paper, Sheaffer Balance Black and Pearl Lifetime pen with 14K gold nib ca. 1929-30 filled with Noodler's Benenke Black ink, and Princeton #8 round brush. Image is 7x10 inches (17.8x25.4 cm).
#drawing #handdrawing #handdrawn #trees #forest #sketch #sketchbook #moleskine #pencildrawing #pencilart
I took this photo of a Sketch my Boss did. Its of a scheme coming up. The photo has been used on social media platforms to promote the practise and the reMarkable Tablet.
I consulted my 1966 edition of Claudius Coulin's publication Zeichenlehre für Architekten, Bauzeichner und Designer to figure out the shadows of the lid of the tagine (a cone).
But, looking at the book and the construction of the shadow I opted for the easy way out - make a photo! :)
Hero Arts sketch challenge. I need some cards in a hurry, so although I am not a big sketch user, it was a handy time to have ideas ready to go.
Stamps Hero Arts design block stencil, cleardesign thankyou messages
Paper Basic Grey (blush 6 inch pad)
Dans cette série "L'esquisse d'une vie" (The sketch of a life), j'ai voulu illustrer les grandes étapes de ma vie, comme si mes croquis avaient donné naissance à la réalité, soit par l'intervention de personnes importantes, d'événements importants, ou encore des choses un peu plus humoristiques.
Pour cette image, et en ce jour de Saint Valentin, c'est "Lisa", la femme qui partage ma vie, que j'ai souhaité mettre à l'honneur dans cette série :)
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Sketching plants at Lions Nature Education Centre, Sai Kung
Three edible plants.
I started with a leaf of a papaya tree. I really liked the structure of it. I went on to look for other plants and I was pleased to see the red Rosselle!
Sketch of the evening: Construction is underway next to the place where I work. This time a view from far, from a field.
Croquis du soir : construction en cours juste à côté du lieu où je travaille. Cette fois-ci vue depuis le champ en friche.
I went hiking and sketching today in Sai Kung Country Park to support "Save Our Country Park" Alliance. The aim of the alliance is to protect every inch of our precious nature reserve within the many country parks in Hong Kong.
The pro-China Hong Kong government (a government which is not elected by the people of Hong Kong but appointed by Beijing, China) is proposing to develop our parks into new towns as it is estimated the population will continue to rise in our 7 million people city-state despite the fact that birth rate has always been low. Since the handover from Britain to China in 1997, Hong Kong has gained almost 1 million of population due to the unregulated inflow of immigrants from China. The pro-China Hong Kong government simply does not exercise its right to screen people from China, a right that is enshrined in Hong Kong's constitution, the Basic Law.
Immigrants from China must be screened and our precious country parks must not be touched!
Sai Kung
Hong Kong
Trying something new ...
Sketching from a photo, choosing the subject, doing a quick line drawing and leaving out what is not important to my sketch.
Maybe, or hopefully, seeing and sketching from photos for a while may help me seeing better on site.
Photo credit:
Jennifer, co-ordinator of the Sydney Sketch Club.
I easily could have done something like this on site had I walked around for a while and think before doing instead of choosing a difficult to draw building and not knowing where to start.
From sketching to etching. I posted the original sketch a few weeks ago and then the world changed, so in response to pandemic guidelines I am working in studio more. In this case have scanned the original sketch cropped, reversed, and resized the image to fit a 3"x5" format. From there I used a dry point to scratch the image into a plexiglass plate. Top is the reverse image gray scale scan. Middle is the 1st test print that wasn't wiped enough. Bottom is the second test print that I removed to much ink in the wiping process. Much is to be learned from mistakes and failures. I am on a never ending quest.