Watercolor and pen in Arches Travel Book
I have sketchbooks filled with menus of meals eaten in restaurants. You’d think that’s all I do when i take trips! Not so. It’s often the only time one has for sketching though, because you’re sitting down for a few minutes. You have water in your glass for the paints, and napkins to use and you can even sketch on your lap below the table top level if you’re sketching that fascinating fellow who’s just a few feet away at the next table. These are the kind of on-the-spot lessons we’ll be having this weekend when the sketchbooking classes will be eat-sketching at the Union Hotel Cafe, and then around town. One on Saturday and one on Sunday. I can’t wait! I did the above demo sketch three years ago at another Travel Sketch workshop in the same spot.
Great stuff. I love your technique.
…dave
Man – does that sound like fun. Wish I could go.
Where is this taking place and how many are in the group.
Darn – now my envy has ruined my day.
Maybe you can come some time Bill! We start out at my studio garden in Sebastopol, CA and move to a little town nearby for lunch and the afternoon. There are 10 in the group each day. You’re in southern CA aren’t you? Not so far really and I’m 30 minutes from the beach and 5 minutes from the Russian River. A good weekend spot. But am I just making your envy worse? Sorry.
Wish I lived closer also. Looks like a great time. And I love doing these kind of sketches, esp. at Starbucks.
Hi Susan!
I am happy to have the possibility to have a look at your blog today, what an happiness for me again! I really miss all that but well one can´t everything at the same time… if I were in Sebastopol right now and not in the north of Portugal, I would surely visit your travel sketching workshop… I made some sketches this morning, they were awful! Perhaps I should stop trying to sketch these big Portuguese forts and try with meals!
Travel Greetings to everybody here in this wonderful blog!