40. Italy Holiday - Part 01

A longer video: Materials overview, reflections and a Sketchbook Tour!

2024 Update:

Hello Dear friends! There are many new people here recently, so to say thank you, and to mark the end of the year, I shall be unlocking some of my favourite sketchbook tours for your pleasure.

This tour is from our family trip to Italy in 2023.

If you’re new here, I hope this gives you more of an insight into the work I have been exploring recently.

Stay posted for more unlocking of the best sketchbook tours…coming soon!

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(2023)

We’re BACK!!!

Grab that cosy beverage of choice people, this is LONG ONE.

In this video:

• I share some reflections / intentions of the trip and my materials choices

• Review the materials I took

• Share the sketchbook work with a lot of chat

I start off the video by saying ‘I didn’t really draw that much’ but actually, I did draw quite a bit more than I expected to!

If you get to the end of this video, THANK YOU and well done!
Let me know your thoughts, and how you manage to balance the ‘creating’ with the ‘resting’ part of your holiday time. (By the way, if you go hard on the resting and zero creating, you’re genius and wonderful because you’re doing your holiday RIGHT!)

One apology: I have not figured out how to work the closed captions on my youtube video, so HUGE apologies if this is not accessible for you. PLEASE let me know if that is a barrier for your viewing pleasure, I will do my best to fix it!

Here are a couple of the pages from my sketchbook as a sneak peek:

A view of the Dolomites. Drawn from my own photo reference, using a Caran D’ache Luminance in Dark Indigo pencil.

Observational sketches of my son playing in the sand.

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