If you’ve ever wanted to the confidence to sketch out and about, here are two tips:
1. Start practicing at home. Draw your own table. Your window view. Your hands. Your favourite coffee mug.
2. Have friends who are happy for you to sketch while chatting/sipping/eating. I don’t sketch every time, but when the opportunity presents itself, it’s good to be ready.
That probably leads me to a third tip:
3. Have your art kit with you most times (‘at all times’ is a bit crazy, huh?)
Anyway, a series of happy and spontaneous decisions saw me at lovely @rosaliehouse today with friends who were very happy for me to paint and chat (and sip)!
It’s been a while since I’ve sketched a whole double page spread!
And delicious spread it was – and I HIGHLY recommend the Rosalie Sparkling, the pork, the corn and the ricotta doughnuts. You’ve got to have the doughnuts.
There we have it – an opportunity to ‘really see’ and a lovely memory captured on the page.
