This is from my sketchbook when I went to Groesbeek to teach a watercolor on claybord workshop last month.
Here’s a post Margo wrote about sketching together. At the end she’s added a clip from our class. Later we went into the studio and created a painting from our sketches.
I learned so much from Margo and her husband, Wilco. They were extremely fun to work with. Margo and I painted together each week over Skype before my trip and I’m happy to say, we plan on continuing that experience now that I’m back. She’s a ball of happy, supportive energy. If what what they say is true and you become the 5 people you spend the most time with, Margo and Wilco are two people I’d like to keep in my top 5 forever.
One last thing, if you click on the image when it’s enlarged, the caption will disappear/reappear as you like.
The first pages.I like to have an outline of the state or country I travel too and in this case, the colors of the flag. In my travel sketchbooks I like to add ticket stubs and receipts to the pages. This also has the name and location of a friend of a friend, hence stars over the information.
One of my students had this palette lay out in a sketchbook. As soon as I saw it, I gasped and made a bee line straight for her. We talked about color theory and then she pulled the page out and gave it to me. My heart still tightens thinking about it. Sometimes the smallest gestures have the greatest impact.
The page next to it was on my way up to O'Hare. My friend drove me. We stopped for lunch and I made him hold still. He wouldn't so this is what he gets.
This was my first sketch in the Netherlands. Margo, Wilco and I went to the Open Air Museum and they let me pick the subject for our first online class subject.
I love adding maps to my sketchbooks. It makes it into a bit of a pop-up book and ever since the first day of kindergarten when I found a pop of Cinderella I have loved pop-up books. I'd never seen one before then and to be honest I'm still a little sore I had to put it up and never found it again.
The next page are two welcome cards I received. The lovely cows are from Margo and Wilco and the other is from the bed and breakfast owner.
This was the view from my bed at the lovely bed and breakfast. I believe this was the final day of the workshop. I went back to my room to sketch and listen to my sound therapy so I could have the energy for the final critique in front of all the friends and family the students invited.
I tried to sketch an intricate church in Nijmegen. The location was awkward and I was pretty worn out by the time I attempted this. That's no excuse. i'm terrible at architecture. It just compounded this issue.
This happened on the first day, but I forgot to leave a page to glue the sheep sketch. Margo gave me a watercolor sketchbook she'd had made. My sketchbook was not intended for mixed media or watercolor.
This was for the second video we made. They were amused by how quickly I set up to sketch this guy. I was on a mission.
