r/urbansketchers

I decided that watercolour pencils are great but I was using them as swatches of paint. So I decided to invest in a nice watercolour travel kit.

What's better than an indigenous owned paint shop out of Manitoulin Island in Canada! They have rave reviews, plastic free, and this awesome travel kit! (No I'm not paid for this, I just did my research and it paid off!)

So my hubby bought me the mixing six set.

https://www.beampaints.com/collections/paintstone-palettes

Comes in a kameco tin with a fountain pen, amazing travel brush and the paints.

Check out how cute! The colours are amazing. Sorry for the randomness and bad lighting.

I brought them on a trip with me and hope to try them out in action.

Modified G-nib fountain pen + pigment liner

Just a little exercise! The first image is still in progress, second is the reference image, third is more my style :-)

Used a fountain pen this time

One of the Instagram art challenges is about Romania. I've never been, so I went for a virtual walk with Google Streets View and found this hilarious scene that I wanted to sketch because of how much was going on in it. It makes me wonder about that hand. Why was the Google Streets Camera person reaching out? What was the groom looking at? Had something fallen to the floor?

Snooping a step left and right on the map did not clarify the scene as the photographer (in the photo doing the wedding photoshoot) and the couple continue to move around. At least the groom is aware he was photographed. On one of the photos, you can see him directly looking at the Google Street View camera and a potential smile in the blurred facial features.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NGMyTAZE5Bys1Kik7?g\_st=ac

Fountain pen ink on water colour paper. Sketched from the comfort of my own home 🤭 Approx 3hrs including dry time before line art.

I pass this once in a while for work and always wanted to stop and take a photo. Has the chance the other day and you can see (3rd pic) the sun directly behind it…awful lighting for my taste. I hated to use street view but I was determined to paint this.

Pen and Ink sketch

Drawn from a photo

I having some trouble with my colouring. When I want to reuse a colour I used previously its always a hassle to accurately mix it again (I only have a 12 colour Winsor and Newton set). Do you guys have any tips? I thought about buying tubes so I can mix more pigment but idk. Hope you like this painting anyway.

I think this is an improvement on my starting point but open to advice.