Travels UrabanSketching

We all love to travel, soak up different cultures, try new food, be on a never-ending adventure and in order to take all that in we end up taking loads of pictures snapping as we go along. To some extent not being able to enjoy the moment for the fear we might miss a spot we haven’t photographed. Thanks to new age digital cameras, it has become easier than ever to snap as many takes as we want not having to think that our old-fashioned film would ran out and we would have to conjure up a refill, which aided in our fixation of snapping more as we go along. In scope of all that, like many others of you out there I found myself so fixated to get the perfect picture that I forgot to be in the moment. This is where sketching changed everything. Being able to go somewhere, sit and just sketch what is in front of me, engages every cell of my being in no other way a picture can. As I find myself go through my sketchbooks and turn the pages, I recall the breeze of air on my face that day, the chatter of children around me and sometimes the conversations or encounters I had with others. It is such a unique experience that no words would do it justice.

So, come along with me as I take my lines on longer walks many miles away from home whenever I’m blessed and lucky to be able to do so.