Just came back to watch this again. What a journey! My first watercolor landscapes look just like yours in this video. Although I didn't start with flowers but cats. 😂
This book records your progress so beautifully. I am just about to buy a moleskin sketch book so I am very glad I saw this.Your pictures are wonderful.
I love seeing your sketchbook. I have a Moleskine as well but haven't ventured outdoors with it yet. I'm inspired to give it a try, I know I'll find some amazing places to paint nearby if I go hiking. I hope you do more of these in the future!
Wonderful video! Loved sharing the Isle of Skye with you last year and seeing some of the places we all experienced highlighted in your watercolors! Gorgeous!
To Sarah Burns - I love your sketchbook video. I’ve been working in books twice that size for 15 yrs but not as steadily so not so much progress but it is addictive and when things in life haven’t been great it’s always there and so wonderful to have the memories.
Your tour was so well done. Take a look at the Following The White Rabbit RU-vid channel for the way she attaches her metal palette to her sketchbook. The basic idea is bulldog clips and magnets attached to the back cover. Works great but I have learned to avoid the new ceramic magnets and go for traditional metal ones. Magnetic tape or sheets are also not useful. They can’t hold the weight of the palette.
Documented Journey What really?? I'd love to meet up for coffee and sketching sometime..I'm always fascinated by hearing about other artists journeys. I'm only in Denver until autumn before I go back to Scotland! If you have Instagram my name there is sarahburnsstudio feel free to message me!
It is a very bad thing to be jealous so I feel bad. You have been to places I could only dream about. To paint nature is like poetry to me or like a beautiful piece of music. It is like being aware of being part of something greater. You pay more attention to the world around you, how it actually looks like, how it smells, how it sounds like, how it feels, all your senses come alive and you try the best to paint your experience. Thank you for sharing your beautiful paintings.
I am sure I can promise to appreciate nature to the day I am no more. and thank you, it always seems to come out right when you speak from the heart. However English is my second language so lucky me if I get that part right lol
Sarah, I decided to go back in time - your time - while I had dinner, and have just watched this - I think was your very first RU-vid video? There I was, quietly eating dinner, and then I had to stop and grab a pencil to make a note of a couple of things - well, four, actually! The first was the pink tree at 2.34, followed by the architecture at Portree at 10.15. They are beautifully, deceptively simple and fresh, and ... just beautiful. And of course, your stubbornness in the rain at 15.19, and getting incredible results - I think far more so than the one you did afterwards, because of the wonderful way the rained-upon paper and colours 'did their own thing' and made that piece of work extra special. But Tom's willingness to stick it out with you is an amazing testament to him! Stubbornness regardless of weather? I really relate to that. I've gone out to paint in the wilds of my home county in the UK in bitter cold and snow sometimes. I stay in the car, though, with hot water bottles at feet and back, a light-weight but warm fleece blanket over my legs, fingerless gloves and a thermal 'woolly' hat... Fantasy: now I know why I see the faeries, etc in your paintings! And I feel better about talking about them with you! The time scale - your massive move to Scotland - co-incides with the time I was in the process of moving here to France, finally getting here to stay in December 2016. Time scale? I should have been printing off some work to proof-read it, clearing up and getting ready for bed, so I will shut up and go to do those things!
When you first started, and improved steadily, what specific resources did you turn to to help guide you with your skills? It is evident you are very analytical and was able to self-teach very well! But where did you find guiding information? Did you start with more expensive supplies at the beginning? Or did you work your way up to them? Scotland is beautiful! I can sense you would love painting the pristine and rugged beauty of Newfoundland where I live. It is incredibly beautiful here in a similar, but different way. Our coastlines are awesome and our hiking and outdoor ventures are amazing.
well done! For the inktenses you should try out the blocks! they are really nice to work with. I have 12 blocks and the 72 pencils and I should've bought just blocks.
Josianne Lacoste yes I've heard that! I'm definitely going to give them a try. I think I was just too new to watercolor at the time. I haven't given up on the pencils yet haha
This was a really cool video! I visited portknockie 2 years ago, Bow fiddle rock was pretty awesome. There are some amazing places around Moray, Cromarty and the Black Isle. If you ever come across it, I think you might find the Clootie Well interesting, Its mor elf a local oddity with a lot of history, if you do go remember to take a piece of cloth to dip in the well and give as an offering to the trees. Corrieshalloch gorge might pique your interest too, and The falls of Shin if you are headed more in the Sutherland direction.
It was really beautiful journey on you and your sketch book.. very nice talent... I love to do that too, I been sketching now for several weeks and I'm planning to use watercolor for a colorful art...
Wow! This is the first sketch book tour that I watched all the way through. You were amazing even at the beginning of the book but your growth was absolutely astonishing. Well done. You have inspired me not to give up, and to practice more. God Bless you.. Blessings from North Carolina, Stacy
Sarah Burns Studio You are very welcome. I just recently found your channel, and what a blessing it is! I am going to binge watch your videos and try to soak up as much information as I can.... I am watching the waterfall tutorial now. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.
If you have any questions please don't ever hesitate to ask. I love the sense of community on RU-vid and learning from each other! I'm the same way when I find a new channel, I always binge watch all their videos! heehee You should also check out Dennis Tyson Plein air. He is so welcoming and always answers my questions.
It was really fun to see how You developed in that short time. I am to start paint, with watercolors, but I won’t get so good that fast. Having fun and dare to try, especially that last - dare! I didn’t think I was so afraid, but I am!
Sarah, Thank you for posting this; it is both helpful and inspiring. I am a retired photojournalist/writer and am now beginning on my drawing/watercolor journey. To see what you have done with your sketchbook and view your watercolors of the same places I visit and love is great. Having shot photos all over the world and many subjects, I thought I knew how to "see" things and express values, etc. Now I realize that attempting to draw and paint landscapes and people (I'm still pretty bad at it!) that this process instills and draws into my very soul the essence and experience of this wonderful world around and our connections with it. Also, every time I return from a trip to somewhere else and then touch down again at DIA, I say, "God Bless Colorado," We are so fortunate to live here. All the best to you in your life and artistic journey. Thanks again. Jack Jenkins - jackjjenkinsphotography.com
