New Zealand Travel Sketchbook Tour (+ USK Symposium 2023)! 

Good on you Lauren and Jody for being such great Aussie ambassadors! 😂

Loved your sketchbook flip thru! Thanks for sharing with us!

I LOVE this so much….I want so much to have the guts to do a sketchbook like this. Thank you so much for sharing your amazing work 😊

😂 Surprise! People keep telling us we're on a small island in the pacific but New Zealand is actually 24,100 km2 bigger than the UK. It just doesn't look like it on the maps. It's probably because the closest island to us of any size is Australia and Australia is about 32 x bigger than the UK so anything looks small next to them. Three weeks isn't really long enough for a sketching holiday here. Not when you allow for distance and traveling times and energy levels. Glad you had fun. I was a little worried you might get caught up with the ferry troubles. Looks like you were lucky though. You went to some interesting places. Your sketchbook looks great. I've never tried an accordion type sketchbook before, it looks great when you lay it out. I'm tempted to try one now 😀

Hi Taria, So happy meeting you at the USk Auckland Symposium. I have been following your vlogs for a couple of years and they are so inspiring. Thanks for the sticker, it is permanently stuck on my sketchbook and I am loving it. All the best to you and hope to see you at the next Symposium in Buenos Aires! 😊

This is amazing!!! I'm still getting used to painting outdoors, and love this idea of a z-fold/accordion type sketchbook for your travels. Brilliant!

Thank you I really enjoyed this, you did an amazing amount in the time you had.

Awesome sketch book.

I enjoy your sketchbook tour video and the story behind every sketch you made during the trip, it is telling everything, I could feel it as if I am there.

What fun! I was really jealous watching your IG stories as you traveled and sketched. Glad you made it back home safely.

Thanks for sharing ! I’m off on a cruise to NZ in 3 days and can’t wait to get sketching! Some great inspiration here

The tall building on Wellesley Street in Auckland is called Elam tower because it’s full of students from UoA Elam school of Fine Arts. I studied there and at least 20 of my classmates were in that building. I lived on the North Shore. The little Japanese food shop in the bottom floor was a favourite place to eat. Coffee Culture on the other side of Symonds Street was a second and of course Gordon Harris was right there too.

I’m so impressed with your sketchbook. You have really captured the scenes ens and made interesting art.

Great video Taria, looked an amazing trip! I've subscribed to your channel, I'm really interested in urban sketching and I'm sure I'll learn so much from you!

I've been waiting for your video from NZ!! Thank you for sharing and can't wait to hear more about the symposium.

Come and paint in Australia! I love your work and I'm about to share the link with folk I've just been in Vietnam/Cambodia with, on a painting/sketching tour. Thanks so much.

I really enjoyed this video and seeing all your scenes. Beautiful work and a great memory of a special time. I was looking for you in Teoh's videos.

Yay Taria, ,I love your sketches and videos, and so happy that you enjoyed my home town Dunedin! :)

The train station is amazing. Please do the video.

Hi TSA.. nice talk about 😎

Look forward to seeing the other side. Rob Sketchman is a real sweetie!

Lovely. Travel with sketchbook is a wonderful adventure

What a trip! Your sketches are amazing. I keep drawing and hope some day I too can draw like you, How did you start sketching? Did you sketch still-life first then graduate onto buildings? I'm having a hard time with perspective and I haven't even attempted color yet. About people on their phones even though there is amazing scenery around them...I was walking in nature and came upon a family walking together. The scenery was beautiful but the father and two boys (all the males) faces were glued to their phones. Only the mother pushing a stroller was enjoying the scenery however.

That is amazing - you are so prolific and the sketches are so detailed and beautifully done. I am glad you enjoyed New Zealand.

WOW, New Zealand is beautiful!! And your sketchbook is so cool! What a trip, huh?? Thank you!!❤❤❤

Nice video 😊

Great sketches from a great trip. Brings back memories from my trip to NZ

How fun! Thanks for taking us with you through your sketches! 💖

Love this so much!!! I definitely will be going on one of these trips within the next three years. Truly awesome. What a wonderful sketch journal you have created! Beautiful!!

Incredible paintings. I’ve been to NZ a few time and it takes me right back there (and makes me want to go again!)

It felt like a REALLY long time for us, too, Taria! Welcome back!

Great trip. You packed so much in!! Heading there next year, and hope to sketch my way around. Thanks for sharing

Amazing! Good stories, great sketches!

Taria, I'm about 2/3 of the way through this and am truly impressed with what you achieved. I thought you were mad when I watched you paint your itinerary map, and now am convinced you were, but it's a trip you'll never, ever forget, and I am deeply envious!!!! 😄 I think the problem is that NZ looks so small on the world map that it looks doable, like tourists visiting the UK. What isn't taken into account is the physical geography - if I recall rightly, to get from east to west you have to go round by the south or the north if you want to avoid the mountains? Becky Tregear would put me right on that, if needed , I think, as I _think_ she talked about travel logistics in her video on their last visit home to NZ... About that sketch you want to improve ... Please, please, please, don't!!!! It's a part of your trip, and to try to 'improve it' will inevitably spoil it, not necessarily from the art point of view, but from the memories of your trip. When we try to change things like this, it's just never the same when we look at it later, and we really regret it. (Can you tell yet that I'm speaking from experience?) If you really want to do something about it, why not use the sketch and your photos as a reference, and maybe do a video as you explain your process as you paint a studio version? I think we'd all learn a great deal from that - including you. I'd love to see it!!! 😊 Anyway, I'll watch the last ten minutes over breakfast tomorrow, as it's after midnight now and I need my bed... 🛌

Great trip. It looks like you enjoyed your trip. Regarding the symposium, I'm wondering if it's in a different location every year? Can anyone apply? And of course the price.

A massive thank you taria. This sketchbook tour was really interesting and beautiful. The fact that you travelled in NZ places and towns and not only in Auckland makes it a real adventure. I was frustated on the symposium videos with teoh (did you meet him ?) again thank you. A beautiful island. ❤

Why isn't your paper all rumpled after watercolor? No matter what I do my paper bucles even though I use the same materials as you. Is there a secret?

You raced passed some of nz best sencery.