Travels with a sketchbook - Resources for Artists

Learn how to sketch on your travels

tips and techniques about how to sketch people, interiors and landscapes

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

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.

Sketching Toolkit

sketching gear - as described by various sketchers

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.

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.

Travels with a Sketchbook......in the UK

Katherine Tyrrell's sketches from places around the UK

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

Travels with a sketchbook in......Europe

Katherine Tyrrell's travel sketchbooks - 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

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

these are exhibitions which focus on sketchbooks

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.

Sketchbooks - in the UK

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

A lot of people travel and sketch 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.

Travel Resources - 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