Travels with a sketchbook - Resources for Artists
Ranked #2,766 in Arts & Design, #36,998 overall
Like looking at travel sketchbooks or want to know how to make one?
This lens provides resources for people who like looking at travel sketchbooks and people who'd like to keep a travel sketchbook but need a few tips first.
Do you have a friend who is interested in developing a sketchbook or visual journal of their travels? If you do why not e-mail this lens to them - click on the e-mail icon in the left hand column
Create a bookmark or link to be able to check back to this site - see the "save and share" section in the right hand column.
Notes: The authors of all images and text in all links posted here own the copyright.
You can find out about.............
click a link to go straight to that topic
Bookmark This Lens
New links are being added to this site on a regular basis
HOW TO SKETCH
Learn how to sketch on your travels
tips and techniques about how to sketch people, interiors and landscapes
These are the sites where you can find out how I sketch on my travels - from the kit I take with me to how I tackle sketching in different situations around the world.
As featured in The Times newspaper 25th February 2011
- MAKING A MARK How to Sketch - advice and information by Katherine Tyrrell
- Learn how to sketch. Information and advice about how to draw a sketch of people, interiors and landscapes.
Tips, techniques and toolkits for travels with a sketchbook by pencil artist Katherine Tyrrell - MAKING A MARK How to Sketch - Sketching Plein Air / Travels with a Sketchbook
- Learn how to sketch - Sketching Plein Air and Travels with a Sketchbook - tips and techniques
Advice about How to Sketch
A collection of links to blog posts and guides (as free to download pdf files) which provide advice, information, tips and techniques about how to sketch on your travels with a sketchbook
- MAKING A MARK A Making A Mark Guide - Plein Air: 10 tips for working in light and shade
- Ideas for artists about how to with the impact of heat, light and shade when working plein air
- MAKING A MARK A Making A Mark Guide: Sketching Plein Air with Coloured Pencils
- Sketching Plein Air with Coloured Pencils - a Making A Mark guide by Katherine Tyrrell
It covers: how to get used to a place; how to use your camera selectively and for reference purposes; my version of a thumbnail sketch; how to consider and select colours; developing a sketch plein air and finishing it at home. - MAKING A MARK A Making A Mark Class - Sketching for Real
- Do you want to learn how to sketch? Sketching For Real is an online class for people who want to learn on how to sketch. This site provides an introduction and three assignments
* Introduction (why do the class; what is a sketch; why sketch; outline of the assignments)
* Assignment 1: So you want to learn how to sketch.............
* Assignment 2: Sketching the Familiar - from life and outside
* Assignment 3: Getting out of Your Comfort Zone - Sketching in Public - Making a Mark: 10 Tips for How to Sketch People
- Drawing and sketching people is an invaluable way of developing a wide range of artistic skills. I've been drawing people for very many years - family, friends, people in cafes and restaurants, life class models - and other artists. This post provides 10 tips on how to sketch people - or at least my understanding of how I sketch people.
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: 10 "Dos and Don'ts" for how to draw people while eating
- I've drawn in cafes and restaurants all over the world - in the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Lots of people tell me they'd never ever be able to do this. What follows are my dos and don'ts for being able to sketch people and interiors while eating - without it causing a problem for you.
- Dordogne Painting Days: 'Wet' Sketching in Pen & Ink using washes - includes advice about materials & techniques
- Dordogne Painting Dayspaintings & drawings from the south west of france
lundi 3 mars 2008
'Wet' Sketching in Pen & Ink using washes - includes advice about materials & techniques - American Artist: Letters on Landscape Painting
- American Artist August 2008 'Letters on Landscape Painting'
Asher B. Durand's "Letters on Landscape Painting" from the mid-1800 publication The Crayon are today considered an invaluable source of information for landscape painters, offering advice that is as evergreen as it is enlightening. Here American Artist presents an excerpt of a letter from 1855, in which Durand advises artists to spend considerable time studying and drawing from nature before painting it.
BOOKS: How to keep a sketchbook
books on Amazon
THE SKETCHING TOOLKIT
Sketching Toolkit
sketching gear - as described by various sketchers
Sketchers love looking at what other people use for sketching - and just how much kit they take out with them
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: My sketchbooks
- I mainly use two different sketchbooks.
- Daler Rowney black hardback sketchbook
- Moleskine Sketchbook - Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Travel sketch toolkit - what I take overseas
- I'm a closet 'everything but the kitchen sink' artist - or at least I was until I started showing people what I take on my travels on the internet!
- James Gurney: What's in my bag - Boing Boing
- James Gurney shows Boing Boing what's in his bag when he goes sketching
- Nina Johansson - Sketching gear
- Sketching gear - I have had several emails lately with questions about my drawing materials, so I thought I´d put together a post about it. Click the images for a larger view.
- materials - petescully
- I am often asked what materials I use when out sketching, or drawing at home, type of pen, type of colours, and so forth. This is the answers page.
- les calepins de lapin: my secret sketching gear
- In this post, I tell you all the secrets of my favourite material I carry all the time in my pocket.
- SketchBlog: Sketching Gear
- Here is my sketching kit at the moment ... I have a few drawers of materials in my office, but this is what I'm currently traveling with for a summer in Rome.
Moleskine Folio Sketchbook
The new Folio A4 Sketchbook by Moleskine is my current favourite sketchbook. Since getting it I've been producing a lot of 11.5" x 17" sketches across a double page spread. It's brilliant for pen and ink and coloured pencils which I use all the time. I don't recommend its use for watercolour - get one of their watercolour sketchbooks instead.
Sketch Book A4 (Moleskine Srl)
Amazon Price: $19.72 (as of 02/18/2012)![]()
This sketchbook has all the usual features of Moleskine Sketchbooks. The main difference is its size
- 96 pages measuring 21 x 29.7cm. This means a double spread in inches is 11.5" tall by 17" wide and is my new favourite format for sketches
- the paper is the same high quality heavy paper, acid free paper. The 160 g/m2 weight means nothing ever shows through to the other side
- all the paper is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified
- smooth black hardback cover with rounded corners and an elastic band closure
- inside the end cover there is an inner expandable pocket which I use for mementoes of trips and tickets
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Moleskine Folio A3 Sketchbook
This is my brand new Moleskine and I'm ecstatic as I'll now be able to produce large sketches on one sheet of paper without having to use a double page spread. The only downside is it's too big to go in backpack - but it's no bigger than an A3 size portfolio.
Sketch Book A3 (Moleskine Srl)
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 02/18/2012)![]()
This sketchbook has all the usual features of Moleskine Sketchbooks. The main difference is its size
- 96 ivory coloured pages measuring A3 (29.7 x 42cm). This means a single page 17" tall by 11.5" wide
- the paper is the same high quality heavy paper, acid free paper. The 160 g/m2 weight means nothing ever shows through to the other side
- all the paper is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified.
- smooth black hardback cover with rounded corners and an elastic band closure
- inside the end cover there is an inner expandable pocket which I use for mementoes of trips and tickets
BOOKS: Various Sketchbooks
available on Amazon
Sketchbooks from USA suppliers
- Artexpress - CHARLES REID WATERCOLOR SKETCHBOOK 8.5x11
- CHARLES REID WATERCOLOR SKETCHBOOK 8.5x11
This spiral bound 140lb. cold pressed watercolor sketchbook is made with 100% cotton, neutral ph watercolor paper. It has 24 sheets and is available in 2 sizes. Great for travel, studies or those who want a nice way to keep their sketches together.
More resources for sketchbook artists
TRAVELS WITH A SKETCHBOOK IN.....
Travels with a Sketchbook
Featured in The Times on 25th February 2011
My blog Travels with a Sketchbook featured in the Daily Universal Register page of The Times newspaper on Friday 25th February 2011.
Travels with a Sketchbook......in the UK
Katherine Tyrrell's sketches from places around the UK
These links all relate to summary blog posts on my sketchbook blog "Travels with a Sketchbook in......". You can also see her sketches in the "Travels with a Sketchbook Gallery on her website
- Travels with a sketchbook in London: a summary
- Sketches from my journeys around London - in central London, to galleries and museums, along the River Thames from the Pool of London to Greenwich and visits to West London and Kew Gardens.
- Travels with a sketchbook - in the South of England
- Sketchbook blog posts about places in southern England -
Berkshire & Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Kent, Surrey
These include sketches which are drawn in pencil or pen and ink and then completed using coloured pencils. - Travels with a sketchbook.....in the north of England
- Sketches from trips to Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Yorkshire
- Interior landscapes with food - a Sketchbook
- Lots of my sketches on my travels end up being done in restaurants, cafes and tea rooms - one day I may do a book! In the meantime, this summary post lists all the sketches by title, with their locations. I've organised it geographically in case anybody else fancies having a go at sketching the same view.
- Pastels and Pencils - Travels with a sketchbook
- Travels with a Sketchbook - Katherine Tyrrell displays her sketchbooks from travels all over the world
Recent posts on "Travels with a Sketchbook in...... "
When I travel, I sketch. When I sketch on my travels I record it here.
Plus information about the history and facilities of places I visit and lots of related links for those who want to know more. These are the last five posts on my travel sketchbook blog
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byTravels with a sketchbook in......Europe
Katherine Tyrrell's travel sketchbooks - Europe
Two series of posts about holidays in Europe
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Travels with a sketchbook in France
- Sketches from a trip to Paris, Normany (Giverny, Rouen and Mont St Michel) and the chateaux of the Loire valley in September and October 2009
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Venice 2005 - Summary
- Skecthes from a trip to Venice in 2005
Travels with a Sketchbook in.....the USA
Katherine Tyrrell's travel sketchbooks - USA
Two lengthy trips to the USA in 2006 covering seven states in the South West and New England
- Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Travels with a sketchbook in New England, USA
- September 2006: Travels in
* Massachusetts - from Cape Cod to Concord to Rockport;
* New Hampshire,
* Vermont and
* Maine - in the footsteps of Winslow Homer and the Wyeths. - Travels with a Sketchbook in.......: Sketching in the southwestern states of the USA - what happened next....
- July 2006: Three weeks and 3,000 miles in one of the hottest months ever in the USA - around Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico and finally a road trip from Monterey down Highway 1 and back to San Diego
SKETCHBOOK EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCES
Sketchbook Exhibitions
these are exhibitions which focus on sketchbooks
More and more exhibitions in art galleries and museums are putting sketchbooks on show and some have sketchbooks as the main focus of the exhibition
- Brooklyn Museum "Under the Open Sky" Landscape sketches by 19th century American Artists
- "Under the Open Sky" (March 28-July 29 2007) features a selection of almost thirty sketchbooks, drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings from the Brooklyn Museum's rich holdings of American art.
- Hidden Spaces - An exhibition of sketchbooks
- Hidden Spaces - An exhibition of sketchbooks
Dates: 12 - 19 January 2011 / 10.00 - 20.00 (weekdays only)
Venue: Camberwell College of Arts, Wilson Road, London SE5 8LU - Lincoln School of Art and Design: Sketchbook Exhibition at the Usher Gallery until 6 March 2011
- Since its opening on 11 December 2010, the Moment of Privacy has passed exhibition has attracted a lot of visitors, many of whom have found enjoyed flicking through one or more of the many sketchbooks on display, which have been kindly loaned by artists and academics alike.
Sketchbook Conferences and Symposiums
- 19th March 2011; The Sketchbook Conference: Programme | AccessArt Workshops & Events
- Join us for an inspirational day, with lectures, seminars and workshops which share practice, enable and inspire.
- The Art of Sketchbooks | We are OCA
- The Sketchbook Conference
March 19th
Cambridge
£130/£91
01223 262134 - Ready, Set, Sketch! | 2011 Urbansketchers Symposium
- Ready, Set, Sketch!
The Portuguese capital of Lisbon will be the host city of the 2nd International Urban Sketching Symposium this summer. Mark your calendars for July 21-23, 2011.
VARIOUS SKETCHBOOKS BY VARIOUS ARTISTS
Urban Sketchers - the blog and the Flickr group
Urban Sketchers is a community of artists around the world who draw the people and places of the cities where they live and travel to.
There are two sites
- Urban Sketchers - the blog
- Urban Sketchers on Flickr - Group
All the people who are members of the Urban Sketchers Blog (which includes me) are people whose blogs are mostly dedicated to drawing on location - they travel around different towns and cities all over the world - with their sketchbook!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySketchbooks - in the UK
If you've got a good sketchbook site recording sketches in the UK leave a comment below and let me know what's it's url is.
- Vivien Blackburn Cornwall Sketchbooks
- Sketches of Harlyn Bay/Trevose Head on the wild, rocky north coast of Cornwall and the south of Cornwall - a much gentler coast with drowned valleys creating complex tidal creeks overhung by woods.
- One mile from home
- On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 Julie Oakley recorded the last entry in her year long challenge to "Walk a minimum of one mile from home. Record where you've been with a drawing, sculpture, photo or painting and then walk back". The the challenge is now over but the sketches and drawings remain in the archives of this blog which won the "Get off your blogging bottom and sketch" award in 2006.
- Shirley sketches London
- Shirley made several trips to to see her daughter and family in London in 2006/7. She recorded all her trips out with beautifully simple watercolour sketches - including trips to see exhibitions with me.
- Roland Lee - Great Britain Sketchbook
- Pencil drawings completed on location in England, Ireland, and Scotland
- Liz and Borromini: A summary of my trip to Europe Sept/Oct 2009
- All Liz's Steel's sketches in the one post from her 5 week trip to Europe in Sept/Oct 09
BOOKS: The City Sketchbooks
Published sketchbooks on Amazon
These sketches while they may have been done 'on the spot' are essentially commissioned drawings rather than records of a journey
A lot of people travel and sketch in Europe
Sketchbooks by various people visiting different cities and countries in Europe
- Laurelines - Travel Sketches
- Travel sketches by Laura Frankstone. Mostly from a month in France in 2006.
- paris breakfasts
- Paris and watercolors are Caroll Gillot's twin passions
- RozWorks | Fun | Journaling | Paris 2006
- Paris Sketchbook by Roz Stendahl
- 2007: Judith Nijholt-Strong's French sketchbook(Champagne, Normandie, Somme)
- Sketches from Northern France (Normandie, Picardie, Pas de Calais)
- 2006: Judith Nijholt-Strong's French sketchbook(Champagne, Normandie, Somme)
- A Moleskine Sketchbook dedicated to vacations in France.
- 2006: Judith Nijholt-Strong's Berlin sketches
- Sketches from Berlin done on site in a Moleskine sketchbook, using Derwent Graphitints, Derwent InkTense and van Gogh watercolor pencils with Sakura Micron ink pens
- in viaggio col taccuino
- in viaggio col taccuino
libreta de viajes :: travel sketchbook :: carnet de voyage - Europe Sketchbook - Watercolor Paintings by Roland Lee
- Europe sketchbook by Roland Lee
- Shirley sketches Italy (2006)
- Shirley visited Italy in 2006 - and started to keep a travel sketchbook
- A sketch in time: A holiday in France
- Pages from the journal which Cathy Gatland kept on a wonderful painting holiday in France - the writing's mainly about the food, but the drawing 'notes' helped her to really be there with the details.
BOOKS: Published sketchbooks - Europe
books on Amazon
Travel Resources - Venice
Links to places which people may find helpful if visiting Venice
- Top 10 B&Bs in Venice | Travel | guardian.co.uk
- A new wave of B&Bs are finally offering visitors an affordable alternative to over-priced hotels - and they are a great way to meet the locals, says John Brunton
Cindy Woods New York Sketchbook - on Flickr
Cindy Woods San Francisco Sketchbook
Trumpetvine's Travels with her sketchbook
If you like this resource please give a thumbs up
and/or share with your friends
This module only appears with actual data when viewed on a live lens. The favorite and lensroll options will appear on a live lens if the viewer is a member of Squidoo and logged in.
Let me know what you think
Please comment on the sketchbooks, give an opinion about any of the resources or tell me about a site which might be worth adding to this one.
ANYBODY can comment and feedback and suggestions for new sites to be added in are always welcome. However please note that: all comments are moderated before publication - and I do check links; all html is stripped out of comments and spam is not published. All suggestions about the inclusion of any websites and blogs will be reviewed but will only be published if the website is added.
-
Reply
-
whitneywpanetta
Jan 14, 2012 @ 9:44 pm | delete
- Love all of the resources! Thanks for sharing!
-
-
Reply
-
efriedman
Nov 9, 2011 @ 11:41 am | delete
- Nice collection of resources for travel sketching
-
-
Reply
-
diaperbagdiva
Oct 14, 2011 @ 1:47 am | delete
- Really enjoying your lenses and suggestions - thanks for posting!
-
-
Reply
-
fli8uk
Sep 7, 2011 @ 6:20 am | delete
- great sketches i like it
-
-
Reply
-
bassetmonkey
Aug 2, 2011 @ 7:36 pm | delete
- Beautiful! I love armchair travel and the travel sketch is something that appeals to many aspects ... drawing, the wonder of travel, the sitting restfully and really *seeing* the new place you are in. Lovely lens. Great work!
-
-
Reply
-
chloevacation
Jul 11, 2011 @ 12:24 pm | delete
- Absolutely awesome lens. I have a lot of things to do before I die.
-
-
Reply
-
Chinajoy
Feb 6, 2011 @ 10:20 pm | delete
- I like this one...lensrolled.
-
-
Reply
-
smithsonianjourneys
Mar 5, 2009 @ 12:09 pm | delete
- Nice lens. We have trips to < http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/tours/arthudson10/
" target="_blank"> Art Along the Hudson.
Check out the Smithsonian Journeys' lens or our web site Smithsonian Journeys
-
-
Reply
-
KimGiancaterino Feb 18, 2009 @ 6:24 pm | delete
- Oh, these are beautiful... Makes me want to go back to Italy and create one. Thanks for adding this to All Things Travel.
-
-
Reply
-
laura
May 17, 2008 @ 12:46 pm | delete
- I have been navigating in and around this article--it's absolutely wonderful; I'm amazed and so grateful that you put all this information together so thoughtfully! Thank you!
-
- Load More
So who is Making A Mark?
About Me
More resources about sketching
by makingamark
Most of my artwork in pastels and coloured pencils is based on drawings from life and plein air studies. I love sketching and keeping sketchbooks... more »
Explore related pages
- Drawing and Sketching - Resources for Artists Drawing and Sketching - Resources for Artists
- Pen and Ink - Resources for Artists Pen and Ink - Resources for Artists
- Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists Coloured Pencils - Resources for Artists
- The Best Books about Drawing and Sketching The Best Books about Drawing and Sketching
- The Best Books about Watercolour Painting The Best Books about Watercolour Painting
- The Best Books about Landscape Art The Best Books about Landscape Art
