It's never enough, right? I made a little post about my urban sketching experience a few weeks ago and my setup too.
The key is a palette without yellow, that can mix one though... kind of.
https://lanagoesart.com/blog/2025/March/20250325-urban-sketching-nuremberg/
Hope you enjoy the read about awkward outside stuff and color theory. I went in disguise... noone knows I run a watercolor database and kind of know what I'm doing. :D Can I keep it secret?
Sausage dog and how the sketchbook spread develops (all the pictures done on the same location but at different mornings) #dailysketching #urbansketching #sketchbook #sketchbookartist #watercoloursketch #mastoart
Few sketches in various stage of completion from an unexpected trip to Taipei we took few weeks ago. Didn’t get as much time as I hoped, some for happy and some for sad reasons. That’s how it goes sometimes. Bic ballpoint pen sketches in talens sketchbook #urbansketching #urbansketch #ballpointpensketch #ballpoint #sketch #drawing #taipei #taiwan #sketchbook #ink #inkdrawing
Slightly unfinished as I rushed for yet another job interview (this one went well, and I even wasn't late )
#dailysketching #urbansketching #sketchbook #walktosee #sketchbookartist #watercoloursketch #mastoart
Fixed Tolya’s nose a little bit. Made a sketch of a person sitting outside (she might have noticed me, but she didn’t react in any way)
This is a local Weatherspoon where I started sketching daily from live back in 2023. I was hesitant to get the sketchbook on the table but it was always quiet in the morning and I slowly grew in confidence. Nice to be back
It's always exciting when I start a new #sketchbook.
The last one - Volume 16 - lasted 20 months which is slightly longer than average.
All my sketchbooks are in the same 148 X 130mm format, they are Daler- Rowney Ebony books which have 150g/m2 acid free paper.
Volume 16 (just finished) started in Glenfield, Leicestershire, England and went with me via Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Cuba & Mexico as well as the English counties of Kent, Norfolk, Sussex, Northamptonshire & Lincolnshire back to the last scribble in the book within 500 metres of the first in the book.
I can't boast of any great skill, but it's something I enjoy doing and the books help me to remember our past, and our holidays to distant places.
I would love my grandchildren (and their children) to discover the world through them.
I can't imagine where the next book will accompany me to!