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Quick & Easy Travel Sketching
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(318 ratings)
1,493 students

Quick & Easy Travel Sketching

With Ink & Watercolor
Created byAmy Stewart
Last updated 12/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How to choose a simple subject for your first travel sketch
  • How to measure and draw a basic building or landscape scene
  • How to add details with ink
  • How to use simple watercolor to bring your scene to life

Course content

5 sections18 lectures2h 8m total length
  • Introduction2:39
  • Supplies8:14

    A supply list is attached. In the video I did not mention white Posca acrylic paint pens, but those are fun to have for adding white accents later. Totally optional, but I enjoy them! They are on the supply list.

  • Setting Up for Sketching on the Go4:21

Requirements

  • Beginning art skills

Description

Join me on a sketching trip in beautiful, lively Guanajuato, Mexico! A travel sketchbook is a great way to capture a vacation, and it's a wonderful excuse to explore and observe when you're traveling. Whether you're an experienced artist or a beginner, this class will show you how to travel with art supplies and create quick sketches on the go.

We’re going to start with a simple building façade, and learn how to recognize familiar shapes and fit them together.

Building facades are a great place to start, because you don’t have to think about the rules of perspective just yet.

With a little simple measuring, you can get all the elements in place and have some fun with ink and watercolor.

Then we’ll zoom in and paint a charming, colorful old door, complete with peeling paint, ancient stones, and the other details that are so fun to capture in a sketchbook.

Finally, we’ll take a similar approach to a very basic landscape.

All three of these subjects have something in common: Once you’ve learned the basics of how to identify the big shapes, measure, and arrange them on the page, the rest comes pretty easily.

That’s why this is the best way to begin travel sketching.

And Guanajuato, Mexico is a beautiful place to start!

Who this course is for:

  • Beginning and intermediate artists