I’m so fascinated by the different kinds of windows there are and I love to sketch them. This is one example.

I'm out with the urban sketching group today. We at the local museum because the weather has been poor. Here is my sketch. The main thing to focus on are the big issues. there is a lot going on in this scene and it is easy to get lost in the details. I'm finding it really difficult to hold on to my book with my sore arm, I recently fell off my motorbike, so my wrist is in a cast.

I love travel, and nature, and really like the attention and detail you see when you sketch. I’ve loved looking at examples of amazing travel journals over the last few years, though you can easily get discouraged when yours doesn’t turn out quite as beautiful. It took a while for me to let that go. I think that the advice that helped the most was in a nature journaling class, where the teacher pushed us to go straight to pen, rather than dithering for hours with pencil and eraser trying to get everything perfect. What I want is to be able to let that go, and work much faster and looser and capture the feeling of a place. The sunflower was the piece that I did during the nature journaling class. Anyway, these are some sketches I did in Puerto Rico and one from the northern CA coast. The coastal one was painted from a photo as my family would never sit for hours and wait for me to watercolor a scene. That one was before I learned to just use a pen and commit.

I’ve just found this group and have joined. I’m fairly new to urban sketching but not to drawing or sketching.

Hello everyone, I am very interested in building a habit to sketch more on location this year. I have a few upcoming trips and I want to be able to sketch & paint fast to capture lots of scenes. I also want to work on my sketches to be more impressionistic.