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Grab your pen and seize the day! Make art a part of your everyday life, and everyday life a part of your art.
Vast opportunities and great joy await you as you learn sketching on the spot--be it in your own backyard, amid the bustle of a busy market, on a hike or wherever you happen to find yourself.
Cathy Johnson leads you on this thrilling expedition as you explore ways to turn everyday sights and experiences into a cache of visual memories. She and other artists have opened their sketchbooks to share their favorite subjects, ranging from natures paraphernalia to aging buildings, crashing waves and beloved pets. You will travel the world through sketches and stories, through deserts and deep woods, cities and small towns. Along the way, youll pick up helpful tips and clever, on-location improvisations for making your sketching sessions pleasurable, safe and productive.
  • Chapters focus on sketching subjects close to home, on travels, in nature, in urban settings and from everyday life.
  • 10+ artists share favorite sketches, tips and techniques.
  • 15+ demos reveal on-the-spot sketches as they come together.
  • Includes expert advice on getting the best results from a range of mediums, including graphite, ink, colored pencil, watercolor and gouache.
The Artists Sketchbook is pure delight, full of passion and possibility, ideas and inspirations. Youll learn ways to be prepared, simplify, still your inner critic, embrace the here and now, and in doing so, discover wonders you never thought to look for.

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Exercises and Techniques for Sketching on the Spot
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Dedication

To my Joseph, who loves, encourages, inspires, spoils me rotten and makes sure Im properly fed.

Contents
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
What You Need
Surface

cold-pressed watercolor paper

hot-pressed watercolor paper

multimedia sketchbook or journal

Pigments

assorted watercolors

Brushes

12" (1.25cm) and 1" (2.5cm) flats

nos. 8, 10 and 12 rounds

small bristle

small, medium and large waterbrushes

Other

calligraphy pen

black ink pen

graphite pencil

wax-based colored pencils (like Prismacolor)

white gel pen

Introduction There is something so immediate so personal so beguiling about - photo 5
Introduction

There is something so immediate, so personal, so beguiling about working on the spot. Unlike working from a photo or from ones imagination, everything around us informs our sketch. It becomes part of it, lending it a depth and a freshness that studio work seldom seems to achieve.

We notice things that may have nothing to do with what were sketching, but we remember them years down the road, every time we open that sketchbook or journal. We respond on a deep level, whether we fully realize it or not. Our emotions join our intellect and memory to appear, as if by magic, on the page. A sense of peace or wonder may envelop us, or a flare of anger as we remember the damage done by vandals to a favorite picnic spot. I can still smell the tang of broken, rusty metal and old campfire ashes that were present when I sketched the old stone barbecue in our local park.

Stone Barbecue I like to let my emotions show in my sketches In this case the - photo 6
Stone Barbecue

I like to let my emotions show in my sketches. In this case, the bold, black marks made with a brush pen served much better than a delicate rendering of this stone barbecue.

We discover things we never thought to look for when we set out to sketch a delicate feather that teases us with the mystery of its owner, a tiny Irish bistro set in an alley in a bustling city, a bakery or fish market thats been in the same family for three generations, a magnificent tree deep in the forest or a wildflower weve never seen before, right in our own backyard.

Duck Feather Australian artist Alissa Duke creates the most delicate wondrous - photo 7
Duck Feather

Australian artist Alissa Duke creates the most delicate, wondrous duck feathers with watercolor pencils.

Sketching on the spot doesnt necessarily require being out amongst em. We dont have to set up in a public place or deal with anxiety or discomfort. You can sketch on your own front porch, from your window, from your car, alone in nature or in your studio from some interesting item youve carried home. The spot refers to where you are. It means working from life.

We may find plenty to draw in our own backyard, or we may take off on foot to El Camino like artist Jennifer Lawson, or to the High Sierras like Kolby Kirk. The world is out there, near and far, waiting to be discovered and drawn.

We may find a tumble of stone ruins in Ireland or towering palm trees in the Sinai. Irish artists Risn Cur and Shevaun Doherty share their sketches from their explorations at home and abroad, and invite us along. Laura Murphy Frankstone sketches wherever she is, whether shes depicting the flowers in her own garden, Norways frozen fjords or sunny Italy. Roz Stendahl delights in traveling with as little gear as possible as she sketches standing up at the Minnesota State Fair. Nina Khashchina takes us on an artist-in-residency in Alaska and shares how she prepared for the trip of a lifetime. Warren Ludwigs wide-reaching interests take him from air shows to dinosaurs.

My own sketches-on-the-spot range from my Missouri bird feeders to the Pacific coast, to the tide pools of Maine and the arid Southwestern desert.

This is not a book on plein air painting, though there is some of that. We are more focused on sketching, capturing our impressions, honoring our passing hours and responding to whatever we see, indoors or out.

Like any good trip, wherever you go, the secret is to be prepared but not too prepared. Leave room for serendipity, for thinking on your feet, for surprises and delight and flexibility. You may discover a new approach or a new tool that will become part of your artistic vocabulary for a lifetime. You may find yourself stuck in a place you hadnt intended to sketch, and find the most interesting subjects!

Medium really doesnt matter that much. There is no right or wrong, and there is no magical tool. Well look at a number of favorites: graphite, ink, colored pencil, watercolor and gouache, and well explore their uses and capabilities, their pros and their cons.

Well also consider sketching with whatever is at hand, whether thats using a freebie ballpoint pen and the back of an envelope, painting with the water from the lake youre sketching, or drawing with a twig you pick up off the ground. I once did a quick sketch with a piece of charcoal from a long-dead campfire that I came across in the woods.

Creating the sketch is far more important than what you use to make it. However, if you plan to sketch on the spot in a journal or sketchbook that you will close, youll probably want to stick with a dry medium, or one that will dry completely without smearing or being sticky. The mediums previously listed are popular choices.

Rooster Sketch Roz Stendahl used a full spread in her sketchbook for this - photo 8
Rooster Sketch

Roz Stendahl used a full spread in her sketchbook for this rooster.

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