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DRAWING: Originals, Sketchbooks and Prints
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5 years of my Sketchbooks

  • London Sketchbook
  • Interior Landscapes with Food - A Sketchbook
  • South of England Sketchbook
  • North of England Sketchbook
  • USA Sketchbook - New England (2006)
  • USA Sketchbook - Southwestern States (2006)
  • French Sketchbook (2011)
  • French Sketchbook (2009)
  • Venice Sketchbook

Travel Sketching: How to sketch the places you see

Travel Sketching: How to sketch the places you see - is my website for people who:
* want to know how to sketch
* and/or advice and information on keeping a sketchbook of their travels

Plus links to published travel sketchbooks for those who like looking at them

Other Books for Sketchbook Artists

  • The Best Books about Landscape Art
  • Artists' Favourite Art Books
  • The Best Books about Watercolour Painting

My other blogs

  • MAKING A MARK
    Who painted this? #28
    17 hours ago
  • Making a Mark reviews......
    Unison Pastels - Colour Charts
    5 weeks ago
  • The Art of the Landscape
    The Wynne Prize 2012 - Selected artists and winner
    1 year ago

Group Blogs I contribute to

  • Urban Sketchers
    Hikichidai Park sketching
    7 minutes ago
  • Urban Sketchers London
    Walkie-Talkie: new to London's skyline
    3 weeks ago
  • A Postcard From My Walk
    Dog Park
    1 month ago
  • Four Go Painting In Provence (June 2012)
    From sketch to commissioned drawing
    6 months ago
  • Watermarks
    On the Shortlist
    1 year ago

I'm a member of......

Sketchercise

Urban Sketchers network

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  • Liz and Borromini
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    1 week ago
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    A sunshine tulip and white sketches.
    2 weeks ago
  • Laurelines
    The Wandering Sketcher... c'est moi!
    4 weeks ago
  • CARNET de VOYAGE di Benedetta Dossi
    Sketching with Luis
    2 months ago
  • Craftmonkeys
    An Illustrated Journey
    2 months ago
  • Journal
    DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU
    3 months ago
  • Learning Daily
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    1 year ago
  • Trumpetvine Travels
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Links to my websites

  • DRAWING: Originals, Sketchbooks and Prints
  • Pastels and Pencils - my portfolio website
  • Travels with a sketchbook - the gallery
  • Makingamark - The Fine Art Print Gallery
  • SHARING: Information & Advice
  • Making A Mark on Squidoo - Resources for Artists and Art Lovers
  • How to Sketch
  • Art Materials, Equipment and Other Resources
  • WRITING - Guides and Blogs
  • Making A Mark Publications
  • Making A Mark - the blog

Bloggers who follow this blog

Recent posts on my other blog - Making A Mark

Travel Sketchbooks in Video form

  • My YouTube Playlist of Travel Sketchbooks

Other people"s travel sketchbooks

Sketchbooks have been listed under whichever area is the main source of sketches in the link

Travels in the UK

  • Vivien Blackburn - Cornwall Sketchbook
  • Julie Oakley - One Mile From Home
  • 2006-7: Shirley sketches London
  • Liz Steel - Summary of 5 week trip to the UK and France Autumn 2009
  • Roland Lee - Great Britain Sketchbook

Travels in Europe

  • Paris Breakfasts by Carol Gillot
  • Journals by Roslyn M. Stendahl
  • Laurelines - Travel Sketches
  • Laurelines - Paris in October
  • Judith Nijholt-Strong's French sketchbook
  • Judith Nijholt-Strong's Berlin sketches
  • Roland Lee - Europe Sketchbook
  • In Viaggio Col Taccuino (Simonetta's Travel Sketchbook)
  • Cathy Gatland - A Holiday in France

Travels in the USA

  • Cindy Woods - Travel Sketchbooks Collection
  • Pete Scully - Scenes in California
  • Jim Pollock's sketchbooks of South Dakota and the Missouri river system
  • The Travel Sketchbooks of Roland Lee
  • Land sketch - Nathan Fowke's sketchbooks

Travels in Central America

  • Debby Kotter Caspari's Barro Colorado Island Journal
  • Debby Kotter Caspari's Rainforest Studies from Panama and Costa Rica

Travels in Africa

  • The Art of Jane Robinson - Sketchbook of various travels including a lot in Africa

Travels in Asia

  • Marcellus Hall's China Sketchbook

Travels in Australasia

  • 5K Radius - the daily cycle/sketch blog of Alison living in Canberra, Australia
  • Debby Kotter Caspari's Field Sketchbooks from Australia

General - Sketcbooks Online

  • Artist Sketcbooks Online

International Sketchcrawls - drawing marathons from around the world

  • Sketchcrawl HQ
  • Sketchcrawl Blog
  • Sketchcrawl Forum

Art History: Sketchbooks

  • John Constable's sketchbook (V&A Museum, London)
  • Monet - Monet's Sketchbooks
  • Tate Gallery: J.M.W. Turner - 300 Sketchbooks
  • Turner - Sketchbooks from the 1780 (Oxford)
  • Turner - Sketchbooks from the 1790s (Travels in England, Wales, Italy and Switzerland)
  • Turner - Sketchbooks from the 1800s (Travels in England, Scotland, France, Germany and Switzerland)

Recommended Art Supplies & Art Stores

  • Arcobaleno Pigmenti de Nube Massimo, San Marco, Venice
  • Dick Blick, San Diego, California
  • Falkiners Fine Paper / Shepherd Bookbinders, London
  • Flickr: My favourite art shop (ref makingamark2)
  • Green & Stone, London
  • L. Cornelissen & Son, London
  • Magasin Sennelier, Paris
  • San Clemente Art Supply, California

Recommended Books

Taking a Line for a Walk: 1000 Miles on Foot - Le Havre to Rome

London Sketchbook: A City Observed

Book Reviews

  • "Taking a Line for a Walk" - Christopher Lambert's sketchbook journal of his trip from Le Havre to Rome
  • Byfield and Binney: London Sketchbook
  • How to keep an artist's sketchbook (reviews of books by Albany Wisemand and Michael Woods)
  • The grass is greener in Vermont - Bert Dodson's new book
  • The Little Book of Drawing
  • The Tao of Sketching

Travel Guides

  • Guardian Unlimited - "Been There"
  • Why travel to France"
  • The Thames Path (National Trail Guides)

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