Note: To see the images I drew from, click here.
This was all about things not going well and forging ahead.
And the difference between what you want to do (personal goals)
and what happens when you are not looking!
Okay, first off, personal goals were I wanted a loose style. NOT.
(So “NOT” I want to do the entire walk over again.)
I wanted to experiment more with inks. YES, okay.
Then there was the amazingly lovely Noodler’s Baystate Blue ink,
which is supposed to be permanent. NOT.
(Fortunately I only bought a sample which just goes to show it is a
good idea to buy samples to play with. . . it IS a pretty blue!)
How this effected me was I could not do washes across the entire, let’s say,
Hotel Laguna, unless I wanted a blue hotel. And the good news is I found out
with the Lifeguard Tower and map so blue running was no big deal. . . or a small one!
I wanted to bag it and start over, but there it is in my moleskin journal and I am not interested in loosing the front page to the journal by cutting this page out, sooooo . . .
I forged on. I learned a lot more from the problems.
It is not bad, just not what I wanted.
On top of it all I went to grab a Pitt pen to do my lettering and the pen was flat!
No point! Oh well . . .
Bitch bitch, moan, groan . . . home home home . . . .
I started a Facebook group page to allow everyone to comfortably post their virtual sketches, and also where we will, from time to time, take virtual sketch walks. If you want to know more about what a virtual sketchwalk is review my first post.
I also created an accompanying Flickr group!
Come join us if you are inclined!
Moleskin 8×11 watercolor journal, Pentalic HB woodless pencil,
De Artramentis Document, Super5 and Noodler’s inks.
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Sorry those blues didn’t work out for you ‘cuz from this end of the beach they are oh-so-spectacular. Glad to hear you didn’t rip out pages; not being true to ourselves to edit art journals (my opinion).
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Yes, it feels that way to me — especially in a bound journal . . . a good thing about posting stuff is that others see your work differently!
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These are great!!! I too want to sketch looser, but these would be super loose for me! I love them! And your Moleskine loves them too. 😉
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Thanks Charlie — I am determined to get looser still!
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Haha! Okay…you go looser and I’ll try to get even as loose as these! They’re awesome!! Just saw a Travel Sketching in Mixed Media course on Craftsy I’m going to try. All about spontaneous sketching! I’m hoping it helps me! Hehe
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If it is by Marc Taro Holmes take it — in fact, take everything he teaches — and visit his website, Citizen Sketcher — excellent! Plus he is a good guy 🙂
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Yep! That’s the one! Lol… Also looking at his sketching people in motion, but since I dread people I’ll start with the buildings!
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I learned a lot about sketching people — now if I’d only use it!
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