Artist Travel Vlog: Santa Rosa Beach 

We have so much respect for the dedication we see here! Love the expressive, yet descriptive sketches and we can't believe how much work she produced! When it comes to packing a mobile studio, Sandi is hands-down the best we've seen. If there's ever a secret mission of a ragtag band of rogue plein air painters landing by parachute in enemy territory, we think it's pretty clear who should be team leader!

You don’t get away to relax, you get away to do more art, lol. Mrs Prolific 😊

those skies...movement...can almost smell the salty air...& feel the breeze thru the palm trees...well done.

I’m impressed you don’t get car sick while painting in the car. I do.

You are SOOO determined and hard working!!! You inspire me to let go and draw and paint more!!! Thanks for doing ALL you do!!!

Hi Sandy, let me just say I’m glad to see you’re still making videos. I just love your channel so much and I love your art studio in your house. You’re just a breath of fresh air.

I went to Santa Rosa in JULY (blazing hot) but we actually had some beautiful days at the beach. I was with ladies from church but I was too scared to even pull my little travel bag of art supplies out. I don’t want anyone watching me draw/paint or seeing the finished product (unless I think it’s worthy to be shown) So my supplies stayed it the closet the entire trip. 😢 I did take some pictures so I can paint them later. I love the way you just do it! It’s not perfect, not a lot of details, just done! ❤

Sandi I loved the pool scenes the best. A little David Hockney-esque. Really liked how you captured the lady on the pool lounger with the boy in the water. Also your works off your balcony. Grady and your mom were troopers.

Thanks Sandi! I am up here in smokey western Canada…so those beach and pool sketches made me happy. You are a constant reminder of just how wonderful it is to make art. So inspiring. I will sketch the garden tomorrow! I love your videos. 🥰

Love it. How patient is Grady? He gets an award and so does my hubby.

I love this. I wish I could work in a car but I get car sick. Even watching the video footage was triggering, HA! I get caught sketching people also. I think they get that energy of someone looking at them. Once there was a guy sleeping under a tree on the riverside. He never woke up and so I got a good 20 minutes in, YaY! Anyway, I really enjoy your thought process and how you capture little fun things like the bird on the beach or the kids peeking etc. Fun!!!

Lol you are my kind of girl Sandi😁. More is more when it comes to packing art supplies. Thanks for sharing your trip. ❤

Looks like you had a lovely trip! I can’t believe how many sketches you were able to do 😮

14:45 your work makes me smile so much, I too always brought way too much art supplies on trips and still do, learning to sketch everywhere was one of the greatest joys of my life. I was taught by Judi Betts. So many times, people don’t really know, I sketched at neurosurgical retirements dinners, funerals, weddings, just like you just about everywhere, and if my babies were with me, they all always had a page. Now my grandchildren get pages. My favorite was when a cousin architect of mine traveling with me said, “you are NOT going to do that here”. I have so many pictures of salt and pepper shakers in restaurants, and whatever was in front of me. I love watching you. Thank you for all you do, I will share you with my students. Also I love getting out my sketchbooks from the 90’s, early 2000’s etc. diaries, diaries ❤❤❤❤❤❤.

I loved the picture painted at night. Gorgeous colors 😍❤️

Sandi, this is off the subject of your wonderful vaca trip but I have to tell you what joy you brought to me while listening to your podcast with Jeanne Oliver. My heart was sooo full listening to your journey and how God has brought you to this place you are in now. Thank you for your beautiful transparency and love for our Jesus, oh , and your beautiful giftings 😊

Sandi, I am so happy you got to get away for a bit . I’m always interested in seeing your art creations. I still miss the weekly long RU-vid vlogs but I’m grateful every second week. Lol. Enjoy the weekend. Sending lots of hugs from NC to TN

Absolutely loved this video Sandi. I know it was an art video but was waiting for someone to hop in the pool or jump in the ocean. I wouldn't have been able not to...haha.

LOVE!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤

What a wonderful trip. I'm glad you and Grady, and your Mom (who is absolutely beautiful and adorable) were able to go on holiday! Thank you for the glimpse into your world.

Oh, how much fun! Better than taking pictures. I can't handle the sun on me or the heat. I have to find a breezy shade or remain indoors, definitely not a sun worshiper. lol I really like your nighttime one with the deep colors. It was lovely, all your work was great. Thanks for sharing and how cool your mom went with you guys.

11:52 I LOOOOVE this watercolour Sandi!! I am now a total convert to Royal Talens Art Creation sketchbooks because of your channel. I had been using strathmore series 500 mixed media sketchbooks, but found them too expensive.. when I saw how much you loved the Talens, I bought one to try.. I never realised just how much the cream paper actually lifts your artwork and makes it look more natural. And I’ve thrown just about everything I have at it so far and it’s held up. The only thing that slightly bled through was a paint pen 😂 13:10 and I love this one too!

There is someone who came back from there trip, telling friends about the lady who was sketching them. 😂 Thanks for the inspiration. This video is definitely on my replay list. 💗

Thank you for the upload! I play your videos for company when I work in my own studio!

I loved this vid, so super fun to watch the scenes & then the sketches based on those sights. I also loved the few seconds of beach sounds at the end ❤️

Wonderful Sandi, just wonderful. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am indeed inspired to pack some supplies and head to the park. I think my dog would love the outing too!

Looks like a great little trip! So glad you were able to get away after so many years stuck at home. Your palm trees are just delightful. 😊 🌴

I used to live in Santa Rosa beach, it was my first home in Florida (I’m further inland now.) this brings back so many memories, thank you so much!! ❤️ those tiny birds with the log legs are sandpipers and they were always my favorite. Their speed is mesmerizing!!

Wonderful I usually take all my art supplies too and your art roll is just full to bursting with pencils!! I love it.

What a trip! This video is Sublime! Thanks for taking us along, very refreshing! ✨

That night sketch! 🤩

I ❤ these pictures.

Oh goodness, you were so close to me. You probably stopped at the Bucee’s up just a few minutes from me. I’ve actually never been there though. 😂 Those sandpipers (birds) are so fun to watch. I hate that you stayed so hot. The humidity is a killer for sure. But, at least you weren’t down here in July or August!! Even the Gulf gets warm. Thanks for sharing your sketches and supplies.

What a gorgeous trip! Thank you for sharing those beautifully vibrant sketchbooks! My daughter and I are going camping in Kentucky next week and I’m looking forward to sketchbook time during the drive.

I really enjoyed the sketchbook tour and all your fun sketches from your balcony and from your dinners. I especially love the beach Horizon pictures! The watercolor clouds on your May 10 Horizon picture are my favorite! I can’t wait to see how you re-create them with your acrylics. And I’m SUPER excited for your next class!😃😍🙌

Sandi!! What a fun trip! Thanks for taking us along with you! What a gift. 🥰

My Favorites are the beach water colours. Maybe because it was new vision for you it was tricky but the outcome gives a real feeling of being in the sunshine at the beach...love it. Also the media of water colour lends itself to looseness and flow in my opinion, great for abstracting landscapes. Looking forward to seeing the works that emerge from this trips sketches.

it's nice how passionate you are and how much you love the process

“Allergic to games” 😂 I m the same with physical games although fine with board games. I have no hand-eye coordination so it’s not really fun. Love all the sketches! The ocean sketches were heavenly.

You were in my neck of the woods, Florida! I so enjoyed how you captured the environment on your trip! Thank you for sharing. Hope you enjoyed your trip. Yep, it is mighty hot here.

Very bizarre to look across Santa Rosa Sound and be like oh hay there’s my grandparents’ house lol. I love the Navarre area. Grayton too. And Rosemary and Alys beaches further East.

The first sketchbook showing while you were still on your trip, I thought all of your sketches were amazing! So glad that you felt better about them later. You accomplished so much and now have your own special travel memories. Thank you for sharing!

Loved these sketches Sandi, just delightful!!!

Aww, a very enjoyable vlog and tour of your work you did, thanks so much.

Sandi, it’s so inspiring to see you use every moment you can so meaningfully! You inspire me to be a lot more intentional about my time and using it to do something meaningful and valuable to me instead of wasting time on things that ultimately don’t matter as much. I absolutely adore you and your work! ❤

That looked like a relaxed and fun holiday. Loved watching all the stuff you took with you and of course your sketches. I always need one or two days to settle like and probably to get used to the light and surroundings before I start to sketch on a holiday. So inspiring Sandi. Thank you for sharing

Omggg you were so close to me! I’m lucky to call this beach home! Such a small world!

It's sounds like Buck-ease! Best fun store ever.

I just adore you. The "build-a-scenes" are always my favorite from your trips, and as a native Texan, the Bucc-ee's bit made me giggle. Your skies are also *chef's kiss*. So beautiful. Thank you for sharing your work and yourself with us!

Beautiful sketches! I’m with your mom, Bucees is a destination! 😂🦫

This was so much fun to watch, you cracked me up with your little comments about this person and that person noticing you sketching. I couldn't stop laughing at the mental picture in my head of you arriving for breakfast at the hotel and a ripple going around the room as people put on hats and dark glasses, pulling out newspapers to hide behind 🤣😂🤣 Seriously though, I love your videos and your sketches.

I loved this. Best of your videos for a while in my opinion. :) it’s very inspiring to see the scenes you paint. I would think well a balcony scene with cars etc is too hard. You make it look fun. And i love the view from the balcony in the night scene. Wow. Loved that. “Really fun to just sketch and sketch and sketch!” Good for you Sandi!! :):)

I love the way you use color!! 😊

Thought it was so funny about buccees 😂 in Texas it’s for sure a thing to take a picture at buccees because it’s so famous for having the best snacks when your traveling ❤

Loved this so much as always ❤❤

Thanks for sharing your art process while traveling. My favorite sketch (from the sketchbook with the white cover) is the night scene, I think from your balcony. Next favorites, from the same sketchbook, two showing the surf at the beach edge. Hard to do, but so intriguing. It'll be interesting to see what paintings may come from these sketches. I also took close note of your comment about sticking with the same materials and really learning them, especially in a new environment. Too many choices leaves me at least scattered and confused. And the challenge of rendering what you're seeing and feeling about it in fewer materials often leads to strong stuff. Hope you went for a swim here and there in addition to sketching!

Good work, Sandi.

omg buc-ees lol eyes had me dying laughing That a first one for me down in the south of texas is where the first one was ever built in my hometown we love buc-ees clean bathrooms great ice and the beaver.

Sandi you made me laugh about Buc-ees. We just got back from Florida and saw the signs too- only place that says "eat here, get gas"! Lol! On the east coast of Canada I have struggled with capturing the ocean as there really is no composition. But with your perspectives of including some shoreline and bringing interest to the sky, I have a better eye for it now. Thanks as always!

Here in Texas, Buc-ee’s (pronounced with long E) is a must for any trip. Looks like such a great trip and very productive. I know just watching this video got me wanting to start sketching.

I personally think that these are some of your BEST sketches that I have seen you do! LOVE the pool sketches the most!

Ok the Buck-ees is funny. I live in CO and they are putting in one by us and people are so excited. All I can think is over a truck stop?! Lol fun trip and arting. Glad you got some R&R

The rule is, if you're taking the car, you can take ALL the art supplies! You should see the massive bag I took for a weekend in Cape May ( we live in S Jersey, so.. car plus half my studio!!!)😊 Also, I am loving your landscape class!

I LOVE this so much. I just went to Cancun last week and had a hard time myself with packing light and definitely regret packing too many supplies. Next time I’m going to only bring a few tombows, my tiny watercolor palette, and colored pencils. Just to pack lighter. I got this little travel bag from scribbles that matter (I missed out on that release from your mom for those beautiful bags) and my goal was to only pack what I could fit in there. That ended up in a backpack with more. 😅 So the struggle is real and I feel this. I love watching your process.

Sandi thank you soooo much for sharing your beautiful sketches. I love seeing how you find beauty wherever you are. Such an inspiration. ❤

Learning together...Chris Loud Art and Peonyandparakeet. Appreciate ur expressing the value of moving on and learning the newest of the art journey on ur videos. ANN, Florida fan

I hope you took time to relax as well! Funny how you said initially that you weren't feeling the sea scapes but then when you looked at them later you loved them! I loved the watercolour clouds that you did and the soft sea scapes in the white sketchbook.

I've recently discovered your channel and I love it so much! You embody the joy of art like no other; I'm truly inspired and in awe of you.❤

Thanks for taking us along! Beautiful beach. Fun sketches. You took along so many art supply options!!! Did you like having so many supplies?

I loved those sketches and paintings!,,it reminded me of how much I love sketching when I travel

Thank you for all your inspiration! It looks like you had a wonderful trip and you accomplished so much. I am headed to the beach next week and have packed my art supplies 3 times already 😂

It’s so inspiring Sandi!!!! Life is complicated right now. I need reminders like this of how good it is to slow myself down and focus on all the good things God has placed around me. I’ll get out my sketchbook tomorrow and begin again.

Love your art holiday blogs! You and Grady are so cute with your little jokes 😂

So inspiring!! I LOVED your night scene. And I chuckled to myself so much thinking about people noticing you sketching them and turning away. 😂 Thanks for sharing your trip with us! So excited for your next class.

Félicitations pour votre enthousiasme et spontanéité dans vos très beaux ”sketches” !😮❤😊

Aww, Sandy! I really loved getting to see your sketches and photos and videos of your trip! I love all your commentary and thoughts on what you were sketching, when and how, and with what. Just wonderful. I truly enjoyed it. Paula

Such a beautiful and fun video. Thanks for taking us along and the sketches were great

Your beautiful sketches absolutely gorgeous inspired me thank you Sandi 😊

Beautiful!

While your style is completely different than mine, I love it! And I’m amazed at how much you can paint/draw! I’m in Florida for 3 weeks (2 weeks down) and I haven’t painted at all. Been trying to get to the beach as much as possible.

Love ur process

Great stuff! Thanks for bringing us along!

Terrific. So great to see you arting in different environments. Love all of it. Looks like a beautiful vacation too.

In enjoyed this so so much!! It reminded me of everything I love about art making, this ‘sketchbooking everywhere’ is something I used to do before I several chronic illnesses knocked me down, but I am in the process of reclaiming it. I know it’s not funny in the moment, but the woman changing chairs with her husband cracked me up 🙈😅 So funny what you said about the little bird I was thinking the same thing when it showed up in footage earlier, must be fun to move that way😄 I love the sketches very inspiring!! The night scene was so evocative👌

Beautiful sketches!

Recently did a road trip and enjoyed the build-a-scene technique. Lots of bright green spring farm fields and trees. Learned so much from your landscape class.

Love your videos! You’ve really inspired me to get into sketch-booking, which Ive never done before even though I paint! Thank you for sharing!

Looks like a fun trip. Your sketches look wonderful. I really like the evening sketch also. 😊

Nice place😊 love the skecth sss

Just discovered your channel and am getting caught up. I heard your Creatives Ignite interview today and discovered you're an Auburn grad. Same! War Eagle!

Thank you for inspiring me as much as you do! I've discovered how much I love drawing outdoors and was brave enough to go try it because of how much fun I see you having

May enjoy watching Paint Coach this week? More about the paper in each sketchbook? Weight, texture, shades of?😊

This is what kills me about sketching here in Tennesse in the summer , it is so darn hot Sandi !!! ;) , just stopped by to say hi , love those sketches , super awesome.

🎉🎉🎉 lovely! Been waiting for 2 weeks for this 🥰

its a famous gas station tho lol 7:08 great tigger! you pool scenes look great 18:49 bring a fried??...oh bring a friend, that makes more sense lol

YAY, BUC-EES!

I am in awe of how you do your art no matter where you are. Do people come up and watch? your "studio" set up is great! The little paints that you have on your balcony is that just acrylic in condiment containers?

Hey Sandi, I just posted 2 comments, it comes up under "Juan Grullon" it's me Maria Grullon. I suppose it pops up under my hubby's subscription. But it's me, Maria.

Yeah-cool upload,

You could have stopped in South Carolina i would have bought y'all lunch ❤