Traveling with Your Sketchbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Travel Sketching with Emphasis on Pen-and-Ink Joyce Ryan
Publisher: Butterfly Books

Do you prefer oils, acrylics, pen & ink, egg tempera, graphite, digital painting, ceramics, etc…??? I'd fill those pockets up with my camera gear, a sketch book and a book to read and hit the beautiful Retiro park in Madrid, where I live. Here's what worked for me in kicking the paper habit. Once sketches were completed, it was time to ink my illustrations and then convert the scans of my work into vectorized artwork. It has a text How a Blog Transformed Air Travel · What Is The Most Brilliant Question In the World? Look My own jumpstart art story: Although I took art classes in college, I consider myself 'self-taught'. Writing and illustrating my picture book, “Rabbit Mooncakes” was a daily dance with paper, ink and gouache. Later, my art career sprung up between loads of laundry, during the babies' nap-time and late at night. If I had a smock, I'd take it on a trip and fill its pockets with dreams of far away places, my phone for both its camera and online travel guides, street market wares and snacks, flirtatious notes from handsome exotic strangers in I would keep my musical practice gear in it's lovely pockets: metronome, pitch pipe, logbook and pen. Painting and drawing consistently helped me get ready for to find the right gallery. I got myself a drawing program for my iPad and phone called SketchBook Pro which I used to create the image for this post. To my disappointment, I really didn't learn very much about fine art in college other than rendering.