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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
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10 popular posts from Travels with a Sketchbook

  • Auberge du Terroir, Servon
  • Step by step sketch of the Rose Garden, Sissinghurst
  • Summer in the Rose Garden, Sissinghurst
  • Sketching in the RI Exhibition at the Mall Galleries
  • What's the colour code for a Moleskine sketchbook?
  • Hampton Court Palace and its 300 year old Yew Trees
  • "Travels with a Sketchbook" recommended by "The Times"
  • Venice - Friday 13th May 2005 (morning)
  • Sketching in the southwestern states of the USA - what happened next....
  • The Leaning Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral

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  • DRAWING: Originals Art and Prints: Pastels and Pencils - original art
  • SHARING: Information & Advice: Learn How to Sketch; Recommended Art Books; Art Materials & Equipment
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My social media sites:
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I'm also an urban sketcher and a founder member of London Urban Sketchers - and I often lead the monthly sketchcrawls

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Group Blogs I contribute to

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    5 years ago
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  • Liz and Borromini
    Trip Prep: Fresh Paint, New adventures
    6 years ago
  • woolgathering
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    6 years ago
  • Learning Daily
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    10 years ago
  • Seattle Sketcher
    One hour sketches
    14 years ago
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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

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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