Just back from holidays.
Mallorca is warm, sunny and the beach in the north I was at was rather huge, considering the other beaches of the island.
However, for various reasons, Mallorca is best enjoyed for one week - no longer.
Before I left, I bought a brand spanking new palette of Winsor and Newton Artist's Water Colour half pans and a size 10 daVinci travel brush. It was quite expensive, all in all, but the difference in quality is so obvious when painting, it was worth it.
I think if you buy something expensive but then make very good use of it, it is money well invested.
I am still fiddling around with finding the right sketchbook size for on location watercolor sketching, but for now the Moleskine Large Watercolor (A5) sketchbook best fits my needs.
How do I know? I ran out of pages.
Next time I should just pack an single empty A5 sketchbook instead of the A4, A5 and A6.
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First tryout of my new palette at the beach. |
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Girls playing cards at the bar tables |
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This woman spent forever to find out which position is best for reading a thick paperback.
I don't think she found out, but she made for a very life-drawing-class-like subject,
moving every 5 minutes, if not more often. |
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Balcony view |
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Balcony view on the one day it was raining a lot. |
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View from the bar |
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People at the pool |
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Holiday time is reading time! I love my Kindle 3G Keyboard. |
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Beach of C'an Picafort. On some days, the sea is so still, you can walk through the water and see everything.
On this day, the sea was a mix of water and sand. |
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Beach of C'an Picafort again. Squeezing out the last lines of my edding 1800 profipen 0.1.
I have ordered Pigma Microns now to try out. They are hard to come by in my part of the world. |
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Hotel room. |
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View down from the balcony. |
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Trying to pass time while it was raining outside. |
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The pool palm tree. |
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Ze Germans at the beach. |
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Watching the Reading vs Tottenham Hotspur match at a British bar. |
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People at the travel agent's and the hotel lobby. Very shiny floor tiles. |
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Obligatory in-flight sketch with a Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.3. I prefer 0.1 for A5 formats. |
Wow...
ReplyDeleteFantastic sketches.
Amazing in fact!
Stew.
stewcrowther.wordpress.com
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Thanks Stew, glad you like them!
DeleteThanks for taking me on vacation it was like being on your shoulder.
ReplyDeleteThis is a WONDERFUL record of your holiday - I love all the sketches, and the way you capture so many different scenes, moodsly styles - really great, and glad we got the chance to see them.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful sketches! I love the variety of subjects. Your line quality is so clean but not overly tight. Awesome!
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