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Tag Archives: tools
Redwoods: Three Impressions
Painting the Redwoods on the coast near Mendocino. Continue reading
Posted in california, Paintings, Supplies and Materials, watercolor
Tagged location drawings, mendocino, nature, redwoods, tools, urbansketching, usk, watercolor
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Small Setup
Testing a Small Setup, ready to sketch in Mexico! Continue reading
It’s (almost) Inktober time again…
It’s Inktober again… Join me in this challenge? Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Sketches, supplies, Supplies and Materials, Uncategorized
Tagged 2017, challenge, ink drawing, inktober, inktober2017, tools
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More sketching in the South Bay
Another great thing about having visiting sketchers? You end up meeting all your local sketching friends that you really should meet more often. Day 2 of sketching with Liz Steel , was an opportunity to meet up with Nina Khashchina and Gay … Continue reading
In your sketch kit: Summer 2017
I’m finally packing my sketch bag for the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Chicago. And I’m going with my smallest sketchbag to date. It’s a small Timbuk 2 Messenger, and I’ll carry just 2 sketchbooks: A large 9×12 wirebound Beta book … Continue reading
Posted in teaching, tools
Tagged chicago, location drawing, packing a kit, pigment, sketchbook, sketchkit, supplies, symposium, tools, urban sketchers
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Packing for Manchester
Packing for my workshop in Manchester… Continue reading
What’s in my sketch kit?
My sketch kit is my studio-in-a bag. Here’s what’s in it today. Continue reading
Posted in tools
Tagged kit, paper, pen, sketch kit, sketchbag, sketchbook, supplies, tools, watercolors
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Recent Obsessions. And Brush Pen Reviews.
There are themes I return to all the time, so I guess I have many recent obsessions. There’s vintage cars that I understand nothing about but love the shapes of. And there’s vintage signage, like this sign for the Sands Motel on … Continue reading
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Tagged car, food, reviews, shallot, tools, vegetable, vintage car, vintage sign, vintage signage
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Talking shop on parkablogs.com
When I need my fix of ‘talking shop’, I head over to Parkablogs to drool over artists’s tools: their nib pens and their obsessions with a particular color of ink, their favorite papers and sketchbooks. Parka takes a look into … Continue reading