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When I travel, I sketch. When I sketch on my travels I record it here.
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  • Bali Sketchbook (1997)

Sketching: advice and information

Advice on How to Sketch by Katherine Tyrrell
  1. 10 Tips for How to Sketch People
  2. 10 "Dos and Don'ts" for how to draw people while eating
  3. Starting to Sketch with Coloured Pencils
  4. Travels with a Sketchbook - tips and techniques
  5. Sketching for Real - a class with assignments
  6. From sketch to painting - a slideshow of a work in progress
  7. More information about sketching and travels with a sketchbook
  8. Advice on Sketching Toolkits and Materials
  9. Travel sketch toolkit - what I take overseas
  10. Useful art materials for sketching
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Information and Advice about Sketching with Coloured Pencils

  • Starting to Sketch with Coloured Pencils
  • 10 Reasons to Sketch with Coloured Pencils
  • Sketching plein air with coloured pencils

10 popular posts from Travels with a Sketchbook

  • A Cheshire Garden in July
  • Day surgery sketching at Moorfields Eye Hospital
  • Sketchercise - and my new pedometer!
  • Hampton Court Palace and its 300 year old Yew Trees
  • Musée de l'Orangerie, Tuileries, Notre Dame and St Germain
  • A new Chinese Pagoda for Victoria Park
  • The coldest snap for 20 years
  • Taking a line for a walk - from Le Havre to Rome
  • Petit déjeuner @ Dolce e Amaro
  • 250 miles 'riding bitch' in the desert - Thursday 13th July

More About Me / Contact Me

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My websites / webpages for:
  • DRAWING: Originals Art and Prints: Pastels and Pencils - original art
  • SHARING: Information & Advice: Learn How to Sketch; Recommended Art Books; Art Materials & Equipment
  • WRITING - Guides: Making A Mark Publications - Guides
My social media sites:
  • Making A Mark on Facebook
  • Making A Mark on Twitter
  • Making A Mark - the Video Channel
I'm also an urban sketcher and a founder member of London Urban Sketchers - and I often lead the monthly sketchcrawls

CHECK OUT 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

My other blogs

  • MAKING A MARK
    Review: New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2025
    4 days ago
  • Making a Mark Reviews
    Winsor & Newton change watercolour paint tubes - again!
    9 years ago
  • The Art of the Landscape
    Art Competition: £10,000 prize for Landscape Artists
    10 years ago

Group Blogs I contribute to

  • Urban Sketchers
    Between Suburb and City
    1 day ago
  • Urban Sketchers London
    We have moved!
    11 months ago
  • Four Go Painting In Provence
    A trip to Provence in 2013, two years later.
    11 years ago

10 recent posts from Travel Sketchblogs I look at a lot

  • petescully
    kerr
    1 week ago
  • Africantapestry
    Two dogs in oil
    3 months ago
  • Laurelines
    Technical difficulties, begone! Scotland trip upcoming!
    2 years ago
  • ADEBANJI ALADE: MY ART, MY PASSION FOR SKETCHING
    THE ADDICTIVE SKETCHER -The book is here!! (SIGNED COPIES)
    5 years ago
  • Nina Johansson
    Drawing insects
    5 years ago
  • CARNET de VOYAGE di Benedetta Dossi
    Gara Sociale alla Lupa Capitolina
    7 years ago
  • Trumpetvine Travels
    Comment on Moleskine Reloaded by Larry Brinker
    7 years ago
  • cuatro cosas
    la cuarta página / 730
    7 years ago
  • paintings prints and stuff
    current exhibition, paintings from Wales, Cornwall, Leicestershire, the Cotswolds and Yorkshire
    8 years ago
  • Craftmonkeys
    Denmark Journal
    8 years ago
  • Land Sketch
    Experiments
    8 years ago
  • Liz and Borromini
    Trip Prep: Fresh Paint, New adventures
    9 years ago
  • woolgathering
    cookie
    9 years ago
  • three letter word for art
    End of the year
    10 years ago
  • Learning Daily
    Remembering Cindy on her birthday
    13 years ago
  • Seattle Sketcher
    The Art of Urban Sketching is off to press
    13 years ago
  • Journal
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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

  • 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

  • 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

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