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We took bus 124 back to our apartment at Telok Blangah Heights. The moving bus made it quite difficult to move my pencil across the screen properly. 2 ladies sat opposite us. One carrying a huge instrument case; both were very attentive to their smart devices.
A smaller card so used less of the items in the sketch...
HA Supplies: HA CL236 Joys of the Season - the tree was embossed with white ep on vellum; HA CL244 Sparkle Clear Holiday Messages (sentiment); and HA LL227 Quatro: Icicle Snowlfakes..
Other supplies: SU White craft ink; white inksentials pen; Autumn Leaves buttons, SU linen and Basic Grey Patterned Papers - Figgy Pudding!
This is my 2nd fave card from my batch.. Just love itty bitty cards!
Dans un mois vont débuter les journées " Balade et bonne mine " en Lot et Garonne. Attachez vos lacets et venez "croquer" la campagne qui se pare de couleurs comme pour oublier qu'elle meurt ! Les fleurs messicoles: Bleuets et coquelicots vont se hausser le col pour paraitre en lisière avant que l'été ne vienne frapper de plein fouet les champs d'or et de blé . En concurrence des chorales d'oiseaux perchées dans les rameaux, monte du sol le concert symphonique des musiciens à redingote noire, celui des grillons.
Souvent le rouleau compresseur du progrés s'est arrété au bout du chemin devant des barrières délabrées. Le conservatoire de la nature y garde jalousement comme pour sauver leur âme, ces ustensiles, matériels, outils que l'on veut faire revivre dans des musées sans âme !
Amateurs de croquis aquarellés et de randonnées demandez le programme détaillé .....Expédition du dossier avec calendrier à ceux qui voudront bien me fournir par MP leur adresse email. Précision importante la participation à ces rencontres (devenant internationales car de nombeux étrangers s'y inscrivent: USA, Canada, Angleterre, Espagne, Italie .....) est GRATUIT
Die Urban Sketchers von München haben zum Sketchcrawl ins Museum Fünf Kontinente eingeladen - Vielen Dank an die Organisatoren Gisela und Jutta! (Mit Staedtler pigment liner 0,1 und Aquarellfarbe in Notizbuch A6 quer von monsieur notebook).
We sketch Twitter ideas out on yellow legal paper from time to time. Last week I photographed my sketch with the pen in the frame which made for some unintentional product placement. Yes, we use Paper Mate pens at Twitter HQ—busted!
Abends beim "Drink & Draw" gibt es überraschende Motive in der Seidl-Villa: Die entzückenden Burlesque Mädels von "Isar Gold" begeistern beim deutschlandweiten Urban Sketchers Treffen in München
Ooops,I think she noticed I was sketching her because from time to time she looked at me sideways.
Uy, creo que se dio cuenta de que la estaba dibujando porque de vez en cuando me miraba de medio lado.
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:
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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.
Sketch and wash General's pencil , winsor & newton ultramarine, yellow ochre and burnt sienna watercolors on strathmore 400 series watercolor cold press paper
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).
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