Sketchbook Tour #1 - Arteza - Line and Wash, Watercolour and Ink Art Play 

Absolutely adore your work. You don't need a $2k worth of exspensive markers, pencils, paints, pens, etc. You need a pen & a few watercolor pans or water-soluble inks to product inspiring sketches. 🎨 🖋 ✒. Genius is in simplicity 👍🏽

I was a hobby photographer for about 30 years. A big change in my life meant I lost 20 years of prints and negatives and I soon got over it. Yes, they would rekindle memories but that fraction of a second that it took to grab a shot could never have created emotions and memories that sat ten minutes with a sketchbook could store in my brain. Even though I know this, I rarely sketch ‘on location’ with a sketchbook, I take a snap on my phone and then plan to sketch it when I get home but I rarely do. As I progress through my 70s, I feel the need to make meaningful memories are so important as no one knows when those memories we have just being in places and with people I love will fade.

Love it

I always use that phrase warts & all, love it lol. If that’s warts though, then slap em right square on my face because your art is amazing!

Love this. Thanks for sharing.

You've inspired me to just "go for it" and try different things in my sketchbook. I lost my mom this year too and it's good to see someone else took comfort in creating their way through the sadness. Thank you.

Would luv to see more your work is wonderful thanks for sharing 😊

I love inks, too. I'm going to get the Derwent Inktense pans. I don't remember if you've used them. I would love the pencils & blocks, too. Someday 😊

Wonderful, I love that it’s all mixed in one sketchbook.

Hi. New subscriber here and I haven’t had time to binge watch your videos…. Sorry if you already have a video of what I’m about to request…. but I’d love to see your process of drawing vehicles, particularly in the style of the tractor at 8:32. That looks really fun to sketch. =) Thanks for sharing about your mom. Mine also recently passed away. I sketched her hands and the view from her hospital room window. Her hands bring back painful memories (‘cause it doesn’t look alive) but the view, even though it was sketched on the day she passed, brings comfort. Maybe because it is of a tree with pink flowers…. maybe it is the color that brings comfort, I don’t know. Maybe I was subconsciously comforted by the fact that her suffering had ended…. and one of the things I saw nearby was pink flowers.

So nice to see your sketchbook! So many only share the big successes without showing the working pieces it takes to get to them. It always takes work and practice. I feel the sketch work improves my drawings and painting. It is fun to just play in a sketchbook but it all adds to your skills later. Great to see your ideas and thoughts behind the sketches.

Wow. That blue & red ink you used, would you happen to remember their brand/name is? I’m a new sub, this is my second video so I apologize if you’ve already stated so in other videos. Gorgeous sketchbooks….it’s 12:30 a.m and I now want to get out of bed to paint lol, very inspiring & just simply incredible works of art! Ty for sharing!

What size is your sketchbook?