Friday, October 03, 2025

Travel Sketching

"La Rambla, Barcelona," wc/ink 2017
Sketching has been one of my favorite activities when we've gone visiting nearly anywhere. Often I sketch on watercolor postcards and mail the paintings home. But I also use pocket sketchbooks of various sizes to keep a kind of visual journal of wherever we are. 

The watercolor above is a distillation of many visits to Barcelona's justifiably famous Rambla pedestrian park. Part street cafes and bars, part shopping, part tourist shops, it's one of the places we loved when we were in the city a few years ago.

Below are a few sketches from days gone by. The first two are a villa in France and medieval village not far away. The final is a street light at dusk in Vienna. All were done with a small travel kit of watercolor pans and a couple of waterbrushes. Everything else you can get as you go. 

"The Villa, France," wc/ink 2019

"Eze, France," wc/ink, 2019

"Nightfall, Vienna,". wc/ink, 2013



 

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