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Category Archives: tools
A tool I love: The Pentel Pocket Brushpen
Sketching with a favorite tool: the Pentel Pocket Brushpen Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Construction, Drink, Everyday Sketches, Food, tools
Tagged brush pen, construction, gin, location drawing, penel pocket brushpen, urban sketch
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Color Obsessions
My current color obsession, if you haven’t noticed 🙂 Continue reading
Posted in experiments, studies, tools
Tagged apache sunset, apache sunset ink, color obsession, color theory, orange
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Sketching a Teashop in Myanmar
A few days ago, I posted about doing a Sketching PlayLab livestream with Paul Wang, where we chatted and sketched from a photo. Here are some images from that session. The top of this image is the photo reference we … Continue reading
Posted in people, supplies, teaching, tools, virtual sketching
Tagged people sketching, sketching playlab, tea, usk, usk talks
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What’s in Your Kit?
Supplies, supplies, supplies… Continue reading
Posted in supplies, tools
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Posca Markers Gas Station
An urban cacophony, captured with markers. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Silicon Valley, tools
Tagged city of saratoga, gas station, location drawing, marker, posca, urban, urban sketch
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Wax Crayon and Oil Pastels
I grew up using wax crayons and oil pastels a lot, so going back to them makes me paint and mess around like a child, and that’s always a good thing. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Summer, tools
Tagged drawing, location drawings, people sketching, vehicles
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Scratching the Surface
Some days I draw just for the joy of mark-making, to pull a mark across paper, to feel the drag, the resistance, the imperfection of the line. Drawing with less familiar tools is a little frustrating: they don’t work like I think they will, they don’t hold ink, they bend and snap… But it also makes me really aware of the marks I make. Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Summer, tools
Tagged big basin, big basin state park, drawing, location drawings, redwoods, sketchingplaylab
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Ink, Palette, Watercolor and Taxidermy
Jumping around, talking ink, watercolor, small palettes, conservation and hunting. On my way to Chico. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, california, Sketch Journal, tools, watercolor
Tagged chico, demi palette, location drawing, taxidermy, urban sketching
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Brown Ink
A switchup I made recently:Â I filled one of my pens with Brown DeAtramentis Document Ink. When I used the ink, though, it looks a wee bit lighter and more burnt sienna-ish than the web sample shows. So I added … Continue reading
Posted in Close to home, Everyday Sketches, people, san jose, Silicon Valley, tools
Tagged contour drawing, people sketching, simple line drawing, tea
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Small Setup
Testing a Small Setup, ready to sketch in Mexico! Continue reading
