URBAN SKETCHING ... RIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR DOOR

What do you do when you don't have time to go out on location to do urban sketching? My time is very limited and I often don't have time to go on-location to sketch. To solve that time-crunch I started sketching my home, my yard, my street and my neighborhood.

Our rig. I often sketch in and around our place.

Most of us think our home environment is too boring to sketch because we see it every day. But sometimes that thinking can causes us not to sketch at all just because we don't have time to go anywhere. And as you know, even sketching a familiar, "boring" scene is better than not sketching at all. Right?

Before we moved into our fifth wheel RV trailer, I probably sketched our living room of our house at least 10 times from all different angles. And I sketched the view from our front window at least a half dozen times. I've sketched the outside of our house, our backyard, the twins and NJ quite often.

 I also sketch my desk, and the view from my desk at work at least once a week because I spend 8 hours a day sitting there and when the sketching bug bites, it's the only thing I have to sketch.

Plus, even though your home surroundings may be familiar to you, they may not be familiar to those you share your sketches with.

The view and sketch from our front yard in the RV park.

When I was a photojournalist I often photographed my neighborhood and neighbors and they loved seeing our tiny, familiar neighborhood in the newspaper.

Click here: URBAN SKETCHING FROM MY RV to watch a video of sketching from my RV.

Recently, I only had an hour to sketch and no time to go anywhere, I decided to sketch right outside the door of our RV, and even though it's only shrubs and a parking lot, it gave me something to sketch and a chance to use watercolors, which I haven't had much of a chance to use in a while.

You can find the video of me sketching this scene on our YouTube channel at:
Adventure Road Travel Sketchers


ABOUT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL:
Our channel is evolving as our lives are evolving.

Our channel started out while we lived in Hawaii  and I was competing in Ironman triathlons. That's why the first few videos are about running and Ironman competition.

Since we have moved back to the mainland I became interested in sketching and RVing (we live full-time in an fifth wheel trailer) so I switched it up to producing sketching videos, sketchbook tours, reviews, and how to sketch videos as well as life in an RV with a deaf and disabled daughter in a wheelchair, twin 4-year-olds and a 6-year-old grandsons.

Our Youtube channel.

Our lives can be very busy, very hectic and very squished at times.

Please join us as we adjust to a tiny living space and begin our next adventure down the road of life. Thank you so much.

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Below are a few Amazon links for some of the art supplies I use.

Platinum Desk Fountain Pen: http://amzn.to/2CVwbIc

Platinum carbon ink bottle ink black 60cc: http://amzn.to/2D1xFCA

Stillman & Birn Beta Series A5 sketchbook: http://amzn.to/2CLMTer

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Da Vinci Kolinsky red sable travel brushes No. 10, 6 & 4 round
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Lamy Safari fountain pen extra fine nib: http://amzn.to/2k7PQOV

Pentel Aquash water brush: http://amzn.to/2kEqrLV

My palette: Prima Marketing Watercolor Confections: The Classics (I took out the Prima paints and replaced them with half pans of M. Grahams tube paints): http://amzn.to/2k60ghO

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