The Sketching seminar (Read more here) was a great reminder that I need to slow down and take more notes and look at shapes and colors. Sometimes I get tied up in the day-to-day of trying to make a living and forget just how much fun the work of making art can be.
At the seminar we were given a sketch book and watercolor pencils along with a water brush and view finder that we could use to help us narrow down a composition.
Getting into the habit of carrying a sketchbook is something that many artists do in order to record things they see that they may want to paint at a later time. I think having a camera with you everywhere you go (cell phone) has made the sketchbook a tool that artists have stopped using. It’s a shame.
The Studio 