Last
time I wrote about my green quiet place. So this time I'll write
about one of the things I thought about while there.
Sketching.
The
thing is I have become a devotee of sketching. Most artists start
their careers learning to draw, then sketch and then paint and move
on to big canvases etc etc. Well, not me. I started with watercolour
house portraits and then moved straight on to large canvases. I never
did learn to draw or sketch.
Then I
met my friend Rosemary, a journaler par excellence. Check out her
website. I hadn't thought of painting like this before since I
couldn't see a way to make money out of it. As a professional artist,
when I paint I want to make money....I don't paint for fun.
We
took a trip up to Maine in 2013 and I bought a journal on a whim...
and promptly fell in love with chronicling our travels in my new
little watercolour journal and now I do it all the time. I traded up
to Moleskin watercolour journals and pretty much use them all the
time, unless it's my own homemade ones. I use left over strips of
300lb paper which is glorious to paint on. I tie it together with
string and it looks super cool.
Once I
started really getting in to it I had to think of ways to make some
income from it. So I started using a mix of my sketches in with my
photographs when I do my travel writing. Then I used quite a few
sketches when I produced the Art Strolls in Delaware online magazine.
So as
I sat contemplating my navel, I thought well, it's working a bit. I
am making some money from my sketches. So for fun, I decided I'd share
some of my sketches and travels in a magazine form. Not for money but
for the sheer joy of sketching and travelling. A couple of my
favourite things.
Another
of my favourite things is food. But I have never had much success
with painting food. So this year I made it a mission. Paint some
foodie things every week, daily if possible, til I got the hang of
it. I'm still working on it. Who knows where it will lead.
But
here for you dear readers... is my magazine. Get yourself a glass of
wine and enjoy your trip with me.
Bon
voyage!
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