Excellent, really enjoyed this video, good tips at the end. Jim Butler for me from these examples. On the web Neil Whitehead is my favourite, well worth checking out too.

Living the direction of the hatching in the palette lid, indicating the intention of the wells. Nice- I didn’t really know to do that. Thanks :)

What colours would you suggest for a plain air set of white knight paints

Hi Taria, Thanks for spending time with us in Stellenbosch yesterday. I have been watching some of your teaching videos today and loved it!

Great. Enjoyed watching this.

You do a great job with your channel - I have been doing urban sketching in journals for more than thirty years - here is my latest journal: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIiTYqaZjLOJra8si=nB6KKAX_0fA9CJf5

Great video. You always introduce me to new books and artists. Thank you!

Nice recommendations! I love Reham's art so much she is amazing!

Excellent overview & very interesting history. 👏 I had a general sense of urbane sketching and I’ve always used it in exchange for plein air drawing too but wasn’t sure if that was technically accurate. Now it’s much clearer. Thank you for sharing 🫶🏼

Hi, Taria. I find your (and other Urban Sketchers) definition of 'Urban' to include farmhouses (and other non-built-up environs, which would correctly be classified as rural) rather curious: _What is the simple definition of urban? adjective. of, relating to, or designating a city or town: URBAN Definition & Meaning | Dictionary co m_ The same definition as applying to cities and towns comes up in the dictionary definitions I've researched and find my own understanding is confirmed. I also find the statement that we'll easily find a group nearby misleading. The nearest group to my town is 64kms away - over an hour away along a good, but hilly and bendy road and an hour's journey each way isn't possible. (There's no such thing as a long straight road aroud here!) Looking at the map, there are huge areas of France without a local group. I've lived here for eight years and go sketching in town (usually armed with a packed lunch, to be there for most of the day) once or twice a month and in all that time, haven't met a fellow sketcher, though I've had some lovely conversatios with passers-by from several different countries (we are a tourist location). I got quite excited when I discovered a Google link to someone, apparently a member, about 10kms from here (Sylvie, from Bretagne) with answers from two others, but it was from 2012, and not one is marked on the map. So, hey, yet again, I'm back to square one.

Loved this video - Thankyouso much 🤗

I am forever grateful I read your email that day about Auckland and made the snap decision to take a trip to follow a style of art I had barely touched before. The people and experiences it has brought into my life have been amazing. Buenos Aires is going to be a blast.

Love your videos.

Finally got my copy of your book. Thank you. Very helpful. 🎉

Great video, thanks for your insight!!

I’ve been told urban sketching is relatively new. I guess that depends on how one defines relatively. I started out early in my eighth grade year in school (around 1961 or 1962). Been doing it off and on ever since. You are correct as far as I am thinking in that it isn’t just ‘urban’ although I did start in my hometown. We had many older buildings that had advertisements painted on their outside walls as far back as before the start of the twentieth century. Most of those I will admit were hard to see due to the effects of aging. But if you looked hard enough you could still see what used to be very bright and flashy. I moved on to more rural scenes as soon as I had a bicycle and the ability to get out of town. I will agree my works then would today be called landscapes, but I did try to put something more than trees in my works. Eventually, I got to sketching the oil and gas fields and the equipment one finds there. Somewhere along the way I incorporated dip pens and India ink. After high school I slacked off in that I was in the Army and sketchbooks just did not fit too well with the uniforms and equipment, but I did sketch when I could. After the Army I returned to the oil fields and I brought my sketch books. Color started to enter my work. At first colored pencils were my main sources of color. Then I rediscovered watercolors and an entire new world seemed to open up. Today I use pencils, fountain pens, fine tipped markers, colored pencils and, of course, water colors. I watch videos such as yours for pointers and tips. It is a lot of fun, gets me outside, lets me record vacation trips in a more meaningful way than just photographs, and overall helps me to just relax. In short, Urban Sketching is not new and is not strictly urban.

An excellent overview of the Urban Sketching world Taria.

Great overview! I agree on so many points. I do most of the sketchwalks here in San Francisco on Saturdays and also started a group on Thursdays.. we have over 4600 people in our SF Bay Area group. My challenge is finding new and interesting locations every Sat and Thurs and almost every other day for myself. SF is very sketch able with bridges, boats, Victorians, parks, etc. Cafe sketching is great when Karla the fog rolls in.. I will be teaching in Buenos Aires at the symposium this year. I am sure we will see each other. It was great to meet you in Auckland last year. I tell beginners the key is PRACTICE!!! Draw everyday.. that is how your work will evolve. Eileen

Don't forget your own wonderful book "The Beginners Guide to Urban Sketching" for those who are new (and not so new) to the genre

Ah, some non always black ink artists . I'm partial to Sketch Ink Lily over most others ... it's some sort of rich dark Brown. Gorgeous color of some sort of rich dark Brown. 😃Works great in a TWSBI Eco. Always in my sketch kit. Sometimes you just need a change. Thanks for the list.

Beautiful! What a great tutorial! Can you please share what brand/color the door is? Thanks!

Thank you for considering ultramarine blue as warm and pthalo blue as cool. Over 50 plus years ago, that was the way those blues were taught in many art schools and that was how I still see and react to them. The idea was that if you keep your yellow at the top of a color wheel (as the highest value) and violet/purple at the bottom (the lowest value) and you travel clockwise, you move down into cooler colors through warm oranges and reds into cooler violets cooler purples, then find the coolest blues and then head up into the warmth of greens and finally comev back up into your warmest yellows. It works perfectly well going in either direction and and actually is simply how you personally interpret any particular color as it relates to (morphs into) the colors next to the colors on either side. There are so many useful, but different, color systems at point in time which various artists consider to be the "correct" system that you could go crazy going from one to the next and then find that a new one has just been discovered (or invented). At this stage in my 75 years, I am happy to simply use which ever system works and I can enjoy learning about color as I need for a particular purpose at any time. Thanks for giving me the chance to vent about hard and fast rules. Happy painting, thanks for your enjoyable video, and best wishes.

I'm disappointed that your are pushing Domestika on this video - are you aware that they are scamming thousands of people out of US$99.99 in the form of a "subscription" that Domestika customers were never advised of or agreed to and have no chance of recovering it because you can't contact anyone at Domestika??? I'm watching your video because I also love Spanish sketchers, and I've been a member of USK in New Zealand for many years. I have the opportunity to take a course with Inma, Santi & Swasky. I was attracted to Domestika's site because of Inma's course that you talk about, I paid the fee for that course, and a few months later, totally unknown to me, Domestika hit my credit card for this "subscription" which is fraud and I have had no success in recovering my money. You probably don't believe me - but as I'm taking the time to inform you, please take the time to have a look at the facebook page called Domestika Scam which has hundreds of complainants who have all been robbed as I have. Domestika need to be shamed for what they are doing and I feel sorry for all the tutors who probably have no idea that this is going on.

Hi loving your videos. New subscriber. I am a beginner (38 y.o 😅) new to sketching. Do you think, a mech. pencil and a fountain pen is enough to start with.

I like the Silvine A5 black light drawing books. I haven't tried watercolour on it yet but the paper is good.

Thanks, useful tips 😊 What's the silver triangular Faber-Castell thing in the middle? Pencil sharpener?

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First time viewer. Fabulous artwork. You made a thumbnail and then a detailed illustration. *Fantastic* Plus You made an original drawing and working from real Life. *Excellent* Stay happy (everyone)

Hello! I am new to watercolors, and I purchased the Daniel Smith Essential Watercolor Mixing Set. Has anyone ever asked you to clarify how warm/cool works for the blues? The pamphlet that comes with the DS set identifies French Ultramarine as the cool primary blue and Phthalo Blue (GS) as the warm primary blue. OTOH, every video I've seen that focuses on this same mixing set classifies the blues in reverse, i.e. with French Ultramarine as the warm primary blue and Phthalo Blue (GS) as the cool primary blue. I have two questions about this: 1. Which is correct? 2. Why is there a discrepancy between the DS pamphlet and artists on KZbin? Thank you! :)

Thank you Taria for you videos and for talking about me ;-)

This is so helpful. Great teaching!

I have the Potentate sketchbook and I love it. It’s small and portable. Takes a lot of water. The paper is top quality.

Does the ink stay on fabric?

I love the caran d'ache ones! (esp the purple one) But I usually suck them up, tilt them upwards, push the bottom and let the air out, which makes them small again. That way they're pretty leakproof in my bag.

I like the Pentel water brushes. I've tried a few other brands, but I came back to Pentel. Mainly I use the flat and the large.

Love it❤

I got a Pontentate sqare 7×7 WC Sketchbook & pack of paper on Temu. It's basically just a wholesale marketplace. I know there's lots of Red Scare propaganda about data collection put out by Epsteins Wall Street cabal in Big Business competition & their stockholders whose stock portfolios rely on Bezos Amazon, Waltons Walmart, etc. All of whom are CIA contractors who collect & sell our data. They don't appreciate the loss of profits from their percentage taken from reseller shops on their markets.

You carry pretty much the same items that I carry around. I do have a fine tip fountain pen with waterproof ink (Nibblers), a mechanical pencil with 7mm 2H lead and a plastic eraser. I normally carry a Strathmore Hardcover Art Journal, series 400 sketchbook, 8.5” X 5.5” on which I can sketch, use pen and ink, and use my MungYo watercolors. I enjoy your videos and feel I learn from them. I just wish I could afford to go to where you go to sketch and paint. Looking forward to your next KZbin presentation.

You can refill any fountain pen cartridge with a blunt needle syringe and your bottle of ink. Also the Brush pen cartridge can be refilled with Platinum Carbon. Black

Very useful. Thanks for sharing your talent

Just today I bought watersoluble pencils £6.00 for the 24 colours in The Works. I think it’s their brand called Crawford and Black. They do a good job. This brand has many different types of paints and papers and pens for a good price. Just wanted to try them out. Perfect for beginners or if you are on the budget.

FYI potentate does have cheap watercolor sketchbooks on US Amazon ❤

Have you gave up on the Evolve course?

What happened with Evolve? Was it a good experience? Did you continue with realism?

Great video, thanks so much. Lots of great advice and loved seeing so many amazing artists’ work showcased here ❤

Inktense pencils are wonderful but the pigment is ink, not watercolor. It behaves quite differently in many respects.

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Hold on! Say the name of the fountain pen again? Did i have it all wrong all this time?