Certainly one of my most difficult transitions has all the time been switching modes between journey and coming again house. It isn’t straightforward to modify from drawing what’s new and thrilling to coming again to what you understand so properly.

This time that transition was helped by the truth that Paul Wang (should you don’t already know, the wonderful sketcher from Singapore and my buddy with whom I run Sketching PlayLab) visited simply days after I used to be again. So I spent a few days drawing and displaying him my common sketching haunts. Sketching alongside somebody whose work you admire, discussing artwork and future workshops, and seeing your on a regular basis via their eyes is implausible (Be aware to self: do that extra typically!) Listed here are some sketches from our 2 days collectively.

Certainly one of our first visits was at my native park, which in the summertime is yellow grasses, oak bushes, and rolling hills. I’m working rather a lot with combined media proper now: watercolor, graphite, ink and coloured pencil are all layered into this piece.

For a really completely different, but additionally very iconic California panorama, we visited Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.

It was Paul’s first time seeing these magnificent bushes and it jogged my memory of seeing them after I first got here to California over twenty years in the past. Within the sketch under, I included two individuals who walked previous this gaping gap in a tree trunk, so you possibly can fathom the size of those giants.

We needed to go to my year-round sketching vacation spot: my native farmers’ market, the place summer time means tons of stone fruit, oranges, and berries.

This web page in my sketchbook appeared over a night of dialog with Paul and Uma. I labored right here with collage, pen, ink, and graphite, in addition to coloured pencil. This web page holds recollections of a very beautiful night with a good bit of wine concerned.