![]() ![]() ![]() The idea of the day is to inspire people and to open their eyes to the possibilities and concept of travel sketching (not to try to teach them to draw in two hours). Yesterday I spent time walking the route and stopping at my planned locations.We are only walking a few blocks and there is so much potential to draw. I am preparing for my local Travel Sketching ‘walk and talk’ that are on this Friday and Saturday. Both sessions (1pm -3.30pm ) of 15 people are fully booked out and there is a waiting list ! The wonderful Melbourne Library Service have promoted the sessions widely and there has been a lot of interest to run repeat sessions. My day ended at Heidelberg Railway Station, knowing that I had just missed a train and had 19 minutes to wait. However it is Melbourne – so who knows what the day will bring. I need to know about the potential for shade as it will be January in Australia. I looked for p laces to stop where we could stand or preferable sit for 15 to 30 minutes. This will hopefully give the participants an idea what can be sketched at each. I stopped at three places and did two 15 minute sketches at each. I walked around and around the streets of Heidelberg. I got a lot of ideas for where to sketch locally from Jodi and then Sarah. I also took the opportunity to catchup with sketching friend and artist Jodi Wiley. We started the day sketching our food and talking a lot. I also want to introduce people to watercolour pencils as a everyday art medium or a travel sketching tool. Nothing matters but enjoying what you do. No erasers or rulers, wobbly lines are just fine. I am not teaching how to draw, but how to see and to sketch an impression of your moment. I will base it on the very successful plan of my East Melbourne Library Travel Sketchwalk except this is a full day workshop, not just an afternoon. I wanted to see where I could take the Travel Sketching group on a walk on the day. On Friday I took a day off to meet Sarah, discuss the January Workshop and explore Heidelberg, as I have never been there. ![]() I am very excited to have been asked to hold a Travel Sketching Workshop by Sarah at Arts On Burgundy in Heidelberg, Melbourne. Although the UK was going into autumn, the trees had only just began to change and only some leaves had fallen. We walked through quite a few parks and looked out many train windows onto the green countryside. The colours that I use in Australia, but did not use as much in the UK were Earth Green, Olive Green and also Light Yellow Ochre. ![]() My other main green colour was Pine Green. Specifically Grass Green (Faber Castell) ! I used this pencil so often in the UK – the grass was SO green and the trees are a different shade. I felt that GREEN was the colour of my holiday (although when I look through my sketchbooks, it does not feature heavily). This week’s blog is just a little taste of things to come. While on holiday I instagrammed (alissaduke1) a sketch daily if you would like to have a glimpse of some of them. However, I have not even started scanning my sketchbook pages and this will be done over the next few weeks. I took my usual sketching equipment and put pencil to paper as many times a day as I could. (Thanks to Mum & Jules for your patience while I waited to line up this photo) Squirrel meet watercolour pencil, watercolour pencil meet squirrel. Since then so many wonderful books on this topic (and crafts in general) have been published and self-publishing is far more accessible than ever.Īnd since that very first book was published every few years I get an idea (just like an itch that needs to be scratch) and a new books get created.I have returned from my one month holiday in England and Scotland. I had a wonderful holiday and filled two and half Moleskine watercolour sketchbooks (13 x 19cm). The aim wasn’t to create a ‘best-selling book’ but simply educate and help.īack then there were very few books on linocut and block printing, so I think I was very lucky with timing and to be the first person in this new market and also to explore self-publishing in its early days. This for me was an exercise of learning and a way to provide a better hand-out to have available for students in my classes. I intended to simply learn how to use Adobe InDesgin and thought what better way than to put together a big project (a book) that combines all of the worksheets, projects and tips that I used at workshops. Learning Linocut, which was my first book came about almost by accident. ![]()
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