![]() I also took the opportunity to catchup with sketching friend and artist Jodi Wiley. We started the day sketching our food and talking a lot. I also want to introduce people to watercolour pencils as a everyday art medium or a travel sketching tool. Nothing matters but enjoying what you do. No erasers or rulers, wobbly lines are just fine. I am not teaching how to draw, but how to see and to sketch an impression of your moment. I will base it on the very successful plan of my East Melbourne Library Travel Sketchwalk except this is a full day workshop, not just an afternoon. I wanted to see where I could take the Travel Sketching group on a walk on the day. On Friday I took a day off to meet Sarah, discuss the January Workshop and explore Heidelberg, as I have never been there. I am very excited to have been asked to hold a Travel Sketching Workshop by Sarah at Arts On Burgundy in Heidelberg, Melbourne. Although the UK was going into autumn, the trees had only just began to change and only some leaves had fallen. We walked through quite a few parks and looked out many train windows onto the green countryside. ![]() The colours that I use in Australia, but did not use as much in the UK were Earth Green, Olive Green and also Light Yellow Ochre. My other main green colour was Pine Green. Specifically Grass Green (Faber Castell) ! I used this pencil so often in the UK – the grass was SO green and the trees are a different shade. I felt that GREEN was the colour of my holiday (although when I look through my sketchbooks, it does not feature heavily). This week’s blog is just a little taste of things to come. While on holiday I instagrammed (alissaduke1) a sketch daily if you would like to have a glimpse of some of them. However, I have not even started scanning my sketchbook pages and this will be done over the next few weeks. I took my usual sketching equipment and put pencil to paper as many times a day as I could. ![]() (Thanks to Mum & Jules for your patience while I waited to line up this photo) Squirrel meet watercolour pencil, watercolour pencil meet squirrel. Steven Peterman, Founder, The Sketchbook Project View Sketchbook pages completed for the project by clicking on the photo.I have returned from my one month holiday in England and Scotland. I had a wonderful holiday and filled two and half Moleskine watercolour sketchbooks (13 x 19cm). It has been a life changing creative outlet for us and so many people. Thank you again for being a part of this amazing creative undertaking over the last 17 years and for helping this community go to unimaginable places. ![]() It was my entire life for over 17 years and I’m proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish as a global creative community. It has been an honor and privilege to help manage this project. After February 10th, your book will be sent to a partner organization to live on with other parts of the collection. You will have until February 10th, 2023 to request your book(s) back. We have decided to fully shut down The Sketchbook Project and Brooklyn Art Library non-profit, and gift the collection to other amazing institutions that can better care for the books. “Some bittersweet news, after 17 years, hundreds of thousands of book checkouts, over 60k sketchbooks created, thousands of miles traveled, we are closing the project. The public could visit and “check out” the books. All journals were then held at the Brooklyn Art Library. The journal had a barcode so it could be tracked and was included in a travelling exhibition. When a new project was announced, participants registered and were sent a blank Moleskine journal to fill. This was a worldwide project I participated in for over 10 years.
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