Traveling sketchbook

Interested in painting picture of the places you visit on your travels? This post will show you what you need to get started painting while traveling!

A beginners guide to creating a travel sketchbook

Take a look into my yellow travel and urban sketchbook! Can you guess the places? Page 44

Selected travel illustrations for practice. Used a variety of mediums (fountain pens, inks, watercolors, colored pencils) to enhance the details of each subject.

When I taught my Maine workshop a few weeks ago, I had to do all the driving to Maine and back – 16 hours each way. I generally don’t enjoy driving on a long trip. It’s boring, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, like the time I blindly followed my GPS into a traffic jam in the […]

I could eat a Cinnabon. I could read a James Patterson novel. I could buy a souvenir shot glass. But the most valuable way to use up the hours I spend in airports is to draw what’s around me. Planes being refueled, luggage being loaded, people slumbering—they’re transformed from tedious to fascinating when I have a pen in my hand. Often, when my flight is called, I’m actually disappointed if I still have lines to add to my sketch of the magazine stand or the businessman hunke

Sketching my life and sharing the experience