Art Lesson #36: Travel Sketching in 5, 10, 20 Minutes

You can do a lot in a little bit of time

Travel sketching: How do you find the time?

This is week 4 of a series on travel sketching. If you missed the first few:

Week 1: A travel-friendly art supply kit

Week 2: Lettering and writing in a travel sketchbook or journal

Week 3: Adding collage to a travel sketchbook

And today: Finding the time! I wrote out some strategies for finding the time here, but now we’re going to talk about what to DO in that time.

Draw one small thing

Don’t draw the whole lily pond. Just draw one water lily. And a couple of leaves. This one took me ten minutes and it’s my favorite of everything I drew in my demos for you. You could also do this with food, stuff for sale in a market, an architectural detail, etc.

Ten minutes, but it looked pretty good at the five-minute mark

Use a half-page or less, and color/write later