Travel Sketchbook 

Love Love love your energy charged joyful enthusiastic absolutely beautiful videos and artwork thank you Gaynor 💜💖

Thank you for climbing a towel that I could no longer climb with my disability and showing me a view that I would never get to see. Otherwise I hope you know there are people like me out there that really appreciate things like this. That seems a little to others, but they are huge to people like me. Thank you for the effort you went through.

Working from home, I always look on my lunch break to see if your video is here on Thursdays. Such a lovely, relaxing break when it is. 😀👏👏x

Oh Gaynor I so look forward to Thursday mornings and as always another great video. I love how the grounds in your sketchbook add to your sketches and I love the boats and bird sketches. It looks like you had a wonderful time and thank you for sharing that with us. You encourage us all so much to keep going so I am off to grab some art supplies and get going. Have a great week, Wendy & her wonky art in Norfolk xxx

Thank you. Your videos never fail to inspire! Love your message of letting go of perfectionism…that way lies joy!!🤩

Thanks for another wonderful video. I especially loved the rooftop sketches and the birds and boats are full of life! As a recovering perfectionist, you are speaking my language when you encourage us to play, enjoy, and embrace all of our work / experiments! Thanks again 🙂

Another fantastic post! Thank you for sharing your visits and travels. I'm getting to see places I know I never will which is quite exciting. I admire your dedication to sketching your travels. Good or bad (based on your view) each piece contains a special piece of history, a moment in time. Loved it all. Have a wonderful week. ♥

Hi Gaynor, i always say its ok to produce perfectly imperfect art. So much more interesting in my opinion I love your quirky boats and birds. ❤😊👍👍👍

Really enjoyed your travels and lovely sketches. Would you use two different sketch books one for acrylic and one for watercolour if so which brand would you recommend for beginners? 🤗

Looks like you had a wonderful time Gaynor. Thanks for sharing with us and your wonderful joy in your art discoveries. Looking forward to giving gouache a try .

Lovely video again ❤ I’m a huge fan of gouache!

Perfection is a photograph, a quirky drawing is fantastic.

So lovely to see all the beauty on your trip and you’ve captured so much of it in your sketch book….. Love the birds and the roof top sketches you did…. The buildings so gorgeous! Yes, you really captured the personality of those funny birds and the way they dash along….. Yea have gotten into watercolours more this year and getting into gauche with a new pastel gauche set, and some acrylic inks….. it’s all been about the water soluble materials this year and mixing it all up with a bit of college….. I can’t wait to really get going with it all again, now my space is almost ready…… Watching your vids gets me so excited and inspired always…. Thanks for sharing! 🫶x

Hi Gaynor - lovely vlog, as usual. I love the boat sketches and the birds. Have been trying gouache lately and yes it's completely different to acrylic. I too love the way you can 'wake' it up when dry. Someone once told me when drawing chairs, not to draw the chair but draw the negative spaces between the legs, etc. 👍 Thanks again - Rich.

I enjoyed the trip to Cadiz with you Gaynor! I think the sketchbook drawings you did there are your finest yet. You have so much rich material to gain from them. I am sure you will be able to produce a few masterpieces from all the ideas within! With regards to the gouache paints, are they water based or acrylic based? I already have water based gouache but am getting some acrylic based gouache for Christmas based on a recommendation. I am already looking forward to your next post. Enjoy your week ahead Gaynor. x

What fun to watch! Personally I think those HUGE cruise ships are too much, but then I've not been on anything close to that size! So much fun to get your take on that very long and winding ramp! What a view from the top!

I absolutely love your enthusiasm Gaynor and your encouragement. Perfectionism is a real blocker for me but, with your encouragement, I am beginning to take more risks and care less. I so look forward to your Thursday videos. Thank you so much Gaynor. They and you are so appreciated. ❤

Love seeing what you are up to. I am going to take the plunge & start a Sketchbook. Thanks for sharing the supplies you take with you. Winter is coming & I think I would like to start my sketchbook with things in my home & those basic supplies could easily be kept in a small basket by my chair for sketching. It doesn't have to be complicated. Looking forward to your next video.

Now it's time to shop for tools... pen department here I came. U may find Ian Robert's video this week a teachable moment. Color is what sells...😊...within minutes of viewing your site today...googled Spain. Living in Florida since the mid 1960's...so use to green prestine landscape... makes me so proud to have old' world and modern in USA. From St. Augustine to Miami, to the prairie area's, and mountains, ect, this country is blessed with Amazing landscape. Hope U plan a long trip to travel across America with an endless range of opportunities to draw. A dried gouache pallette would be easily packed when on trips, instead of tubes. Ann, 1 who values your experimental displays of the wonderful world of art. The Old Masters would B cheering U on if they were here. Ann, Florida fan.

Knowing it was Thurs morn, grabbed my coffee & pup & toured Cadiz from my cozy bed--so lovely! Oh my GOODness, thank you so much for taking us along! Sending gratitude & best wishes to you from the Pacific Northwest US. Cheers, Karen

Thank you for the encouragement Gaynor! I loved seeing all your sketches from your holiday - what a great way to keep memories. :)

I love when you take us on your wonderful trips! Beautiful location and I so enjoy how you find beauty and interest in the big and small things around you and then translate them into art. As always, your fashion and jewelry are spot on. And thank you for the encouragement to accept all the aspects of the process of creating, including what we think is ugly. I am VERY EXCITED to see what you do with gouache and watercolor paper and to see your style in that medium! Thank you so much for sharing YOU!

I’ve watched this video three times now. First I was mesmerized by the views. I wasn’t impressed by the monster ship, loved the green scooter and the roof top views had me pausing the video so I could really enjoy it. Second time around I tried to pay close attention to the sketches but I was lost in the great beach views and the watch tower. I had to go look up info on the camera obscura- fascinating! Third time I’m really paying attention to the art. I so enjoy your art but mostly it is your passion and enthusiasm for art. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Now for a fourth viewing so I can be sure I’ve not missed anything. 😉 Have a great week

Had to wait all day to watch this video! Was dying to see how the collaged pages worked out - amazing! Echoing everyone else, I just LOVE the birds and boats. Thank you for taking us along on your wonderful trip Gaynor ❤

Beautiful travel video-such blue sky and so much fun. Your videos are so encouraging. Looking forward to your watercolors.

...and now I'm curious! I'll go find and play with my gouache paint. Your enthusiasm is so contagious, thank you. I love your birds and can't wait to see if they make their appearance somewhere else in your art

Oh, disregard. I saw the segment where you mention the ink pens used..😊😊😊😊

This is now my fave vid of yours!! You make me want to sketch now!😮 I've only been somewhat comfortable using a brush to sketch and hope this becomes a new addition to my skills ❤ I have zero art training but have been " creating " since my teens ...picked up a paintbrush just 4 yrs ago and love/hate it 😅 THANK U FOR BEING SO HELPFUL, FUN, AND DOWN TO EARTH WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS we love you!!!

Still looking for a large hardback sketchbook? If amazon offers these to the UK, I love this one: Mix Media Pad, Ohuhu 10.8"x8.3" Mixed Media Art Sketchbook, 120 LB/200 GSM Heavyweight Papers, 78 Sheets/156 Pages, PU Hardcover Another option we have in the US is this one: Tavolozza A3 (16.54"x11.69") Heavyweight Hardcover Sketch Book, 96 Pages (102 lb/170gsm), Durable Acid Free Drawing Paper for Painting & Drawing Thanks for sharing your lovely life and artworks with us.

Love your sketchbook…….

Hello Gaynor, love your you tube presentations. Thank you. Im sure you know of this book but if not....David Hockney's Secret Knowledge is very interesting on the camera lucida etc..... best wishes trish (south australia)

I LOVE your delightful bird sketches! Because of you, I started my first sketchbook. A watercolor scene was finished today!

Oh my word! The views were spectacular! The birds. The boats. All of it! Thank you for sharing your jaunts with us again ☺️ I loved all the sketches. I need a little zipper bag like that too. That is just a perfect size. 🙌🏻 Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Roxanne from Atlanta 😊

Thank you for another gorgeous video...(new subscriber here and I'm quietly bingeing your videos :) )....you have such an infectious sense of fun and wonder. it's wonderfully refreshing.

As always very inspiring. You've helped me getting loose and experimenting in my sketchbook. Love, love, love and thank you. Greatings from Denmark

What a wonderful trip to Cadiz, thanks for taking us along, so enjoyable! Love your boats and the birds, I love birds! It's always so wonderful watching you work in sketchbook, and you're so inspiring to us. Thank you Gaynor!

I love the simplicity of your travel sketches…. The boats!❤ thank you for sharing your beautiful trip…it looks amazing. Will you go back ? ❤❤

Thank you so much for another totally engaging video and vicarious traveling since I as well as some others here I’m not physically able to travel anymore! I absolutely love watching you draw and paint - the looseness and vitality you possess is so inspiring! The original “designer gouache” which is water soluble was made for designers creating artwork that would be reproduced as fabric or other products because you can achieve a matte opaque shape (think William Morris textile designs where a design for each color had to be painted separately). It is basically a very condensed watercolor (you might treat yourself a few tubes of higher grade brands to experience the difference - the vibrancy can be just incredible!). The newer Acrylic gouache is well acrylic. Unlike most acrylics, it has a matte finish, but as it is made of plastic, it is not water soluble. I think this is confusing to some because they don’t understand the difference and that acrylic gouache is a “relatively” new invention. As a youngster I worked in a textile design studio in the late 80’s in NYC (before digital) and we hand-painted our designs on a certain kind of coated rice paper using gouache (pronounced “gwahsh”😊).❤❤❤

Thank you for the beautiful views. I had to look up where Cadiz is located!! The small pen travel case is brilliant otherwise I'll keep adding more! Thanks Gaynor.

I really enjoyed this. Loved seeing all your wonderful sketchy sketches. Thankyou!

Thank you for taking all of us to #Cadiz #Spain🎉❤ #travel #sketchbook 🎉❤ I too appreciate the tower climb. I was wondering, maybe that's how watersides were invented, hence the no stairs. 🤔 😂

Lovely sketching! Just wondering what pens/markers did you use?

Hello Gaynor, it looks like you had a lovely holiday. Thank you for sharing. I loved the birds/seagulls and boat pictures, and wonder if these will lead to more work now you are home. I also likes the rooftop sketches. Interesting. Have a lovely week. Thank you again. 💐

i wish you wouldn't say "bad" drawings. i love your drawings! your unique hand making your unique marks is what makes them so interesting and delightful!! : D

Your trip to Cadiz was so enjoyable that I will be watching it again during the dreary rainy days here in Oregon. The light was magnificient! I wanted to sit in the Plaza watching the sun travel across those lovely stone buildings. Drinking a nice wine of course. Your sketches are so inspiring. I hope to see some paintings inspired by this experience. Looking forward to your goucache experiments.

What a joy to watch! I absolutely love Cadiz. I lived in Jerez for 2 years and always took my visitors there. I need to go back with a sketch book! ❤

Fantastic video, what a wonderful and magical place Cadiz is! I must put that location at the top of my travel bucket list! I loved all of your sketches, especially the boats and birds!! And I am a Uniball junkie as well ~ love love love those pens!

Was this in Nov? Surfers in the waves and walking in short sleeves on the beach.. a dream to watch from cold and rainy country! And the art practice is inspiring as usual. Thank you for sharing.

Another great video Gaynor, thankyou for taking the time to video during your holiday, the scenes were so atmospheric the sights and sounds, the view from the cathedral. Your sketches were great, love your boats and birds and you are so right about perfectionism it's such a spoilsport. Have a great week X.

I particularly loved how you captured the architecture of the dome, using the pen and blue wash..💖

Thank you, Gaynor. I love your sketches and irreverent approach to catching the gestures of your subjects.

Great sea Sketch. Excellent video. Thank you

GI feel as I have been on holiday with you, the pictures you have taken are so good, plus loved the sketching. Thanks Gaynor.

Thank you Gaynor that you take us along on your trips. We get to see and experience beautiful places and get inspired along with you. I'm learning to let go just have fun and create and let the art develop. Thank you and be blessed !

Beautiful job in the video. So much to be inspired by on your trip. I hope you enjoyed some good Spanish food too! Really appreciate your materials part of the video, that was so helpful💕 Birds, boats, rooftops and wonky chairs-you did such a fun job on each subject. LOVE your sketchbook journeys!

Gosh what an interesting place! Looks fun going on all these trips…lots of arty adventures 😊 Thanks for sharing your time away🙏 Love that you’re embracing imperfection…that’s when the magic happens! Loved the Birds and Boats ❤️ Hey you should do a seagull with the wader boots on , that’d be Fun! 🤸‍♂️ Yay! Thanks Gaynor for all the inspiration ❤️❤️❤️

Thankyou Gaynor 😊 You’ve made me want to get out my gouache paints now - that have been lying in a drawer forgotten - I also bought an airtight travel palette - around £12.00 on Amazon - that has around 16 wells - also with a neat water holder that it slots into. - Travel Paint Palette Box with Foldable Paint Brush Washer, 3-in-1 Portable 16 Wells Airtight Paint Saver Palette Box with Brush Cleaner and Brush Holder for Watercolor Oil Acrylic Gouache Painting. Yet to try it out of course, but lots of positive reviews 😊

Wonderful trip Gaynor, thank you for taking us with you. Great sketches to wet the appetite 👌

Oh it was so worth waiting for band practice so I could watch uninterrupted. Looking forward to the technique mini video. And of COURSE I have gouache. Just cheap ones but good enough to try things with. Thanks again for taking us along on your holiday, it’s lovely to see places I’ll probably never get to

There is nothing perfect in this world, people spend a great deal of energy stiving for it whilst missing out on the journey which is everything. 🙂❣

Soon going to Provence on an Art Trek with pen and watercolors so it was great that I happened upon your video.

Thank you once again for all the beautiful art and inspiration ❤😊!!

I look forward to your travels and Thursday is the best day of the week!! Thank you so much !

Thanks so much. You alone are keeping me going on my painting journey.

A wise old woman once told me … do what you love -- love what you do! ❤️❤️❤️

I'm looking forward to the gouache demo. I need to move out of my comfort zone!

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Cadiz was beautiful~!