Sketchbook Tour 2023 | The Diggingest Girl |

Hello & welcome to another #sketchbooktour ! It took me two years to complete this one, and I carried it with me while traveling in England and Scotland. Grab a cup of something delicious and settle in!
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-Stillman & Birn Zeta Series Mixed Media Sketchbook
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-Winsor & Newton gouaches
-Sui Gouache Set
-Holbein Acrylic gouaches
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[@marshahostetler]

Congratulations! Thank you for sharing part of your special day! Love and Light to you both!

[@TarynF-yv3ju]

Just have to say obsessed...obsessed....obsessed!!!!!!!! Please post your art forever!!! What a dream. I could look at your art nonstop and watch you create even longer. Absolutely blown away and so happy I found your channel💖💖💖👐👐👐👐👐

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Gosh, that's so nice, thank you! I have so much more to share

[@mickeyannie5606]

I LOVE your creations, what a talent you are. YOU are so beautiful in this video also….painting outside the church. Please make more videos, they are beyond Amazing! Thank you!

[@inspiredshelf]

I think your sketchbooks might be the closest thing to human-made magic i have (ever?!) seen! So enchanting, thank you so much for sharing your art ❤️❤️

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Wow, thank you! Sometimes it really does feel like making magic - it's the euphoric power of creativity!

[@suemason8177]

Beautiful. Thx for your inspiration 🍊🤗👍

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you for being here ❤️!

[@everausten]

I love the way this is presented with intercut footage of the inspiration and working on the pieces, it was so lovely to see you on film. Your art is enchanting, I just can't get over how inspiring it is. Even without all your beautiful wedding memories, your style is so romantic ✨

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you very much - feedback like this is so helpful (and really nice to read). I'm grateful you took the time to spend with me ❤️

[@lidiakrajewskaart]

I love how you explained what inspired you to create each page! Beautiful way of capturing memories

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you! my memory is like swiss cheese but if I draw something, it seems to stick in my brain much better

[@drawingsinadrawer]

On a binge watch of these-I love you got married in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

aw yay, thank you!

[@maryhigginson9710]

Lovely tour - thank you. And congratulations.

[@ursulacook9883]

Why do some people have so much talent & creativity when I have none!? 😟🤩

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

I'll bet you do have some! Creativity manifests in all kinds of ways, and it's all about how you nurture it ♥

[@ursulacook9883]

🥰@@TheDiggingestGirl

[@cindyfromsydney7693]

Another beautiful sketchbook❤❤❤

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you! 🤗

[@scoodler]

I really, really want a small print of your Elizabeth Siddall portrait with the gold halo. I love it.

[@anndavidson287]

You have great design, color, sense and a beautiful imagination!! Loved the sketchbooks on tour!! So inspiring. I'm an artist who's losing use of my hand and not giving up. I still have the vision to see beauty!! Thanks ❤❤❤!😂

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Oh man I can really sympathize with hand pain. Please take good care of yourself ❤️!

[@tullius2222]

I can’t believe you grew up in Kentucky oh my goodness. The architecture definitely leaves a lot to be desired, but there is something to be said about how beautiful the wilderness is here. I’m excited to get out of here, but the inspiration of the mountains is something I will miss. The way you illustrate nature is stunning, and I have to wonder if you’ve ever drawn the Appalachian Mountains? I think you’d do them justice :)

[@AleksdeArt]

Beautiful tour, I don't know why, but during the video I was on the verge of tears of happiness or sadness more than once listening to your stories, thank you for that! 🤍🤍

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

wow, what lovely feedback. Thank you so much for taking the time to spend with me 🤍

[@BettyCollins88]

You truly have an eye for foliage n plants. You could prob be a botanical illustrator, like some of the ones I've met. I wasn't rly into the wedding n castle/nobility n monarchy theme, just bc it felt a little uncritical to me, as a woman of color. The kelpies in Scotland with the scultpures were awesome. And my favorite illustration was actually that one tree u felt "meh" about, vry beautiful. Your cat coming thru the forest had a certain magic too.

[@happyone444able]

Oh my GOODNESS! I teared up when you shared pics of your wedding! How utterly amazing. I just found your channel, enjoying your artwork and videos very much. I’m reawakening my soul to how much I love doing art and it has sadly not been present enough for a few years. I’m ready to jump back in thanks to your incredible art and I’m feeling very inspired. Thank you! 😊

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you so much for taking the time, and I am HERE for your journey!!! You're about to reopen the floodgates to beauty. I wish you all the best and have so much fun creating!

[@viktoriafatyol7110]

Your simple style but in the mean time expensively detailed drawings just lighted my day! Definitely you will be one of my favorite artist that I want to watch next to my coffee. Your relaxing voice and the little seek in videos to your life are so relaxing. Keep on doin'! 💚🦊🍀

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Wow, thank you! What wonderful feedback. I'll try to keep it up :)

[@be291]

Your art is phenomenal!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

wow, thank you!

[@marielouiseweeksb33attitud33]

What an amazing sketchbook. Similarly I fill my sketchbook in non chronological order. So glad your video came on my feed

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

hey thanks! I'm glad you're here :)

[@lexedwards1236]

So glad your channel was recommended to me. I love your personality and wonderful art!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you so much for clicking and sticking around!

[@margaretpinsent6388]

Both journals of your stay in England, and elopment! to Scotland, are extraordinary. I'm gobsmacked. Thank you for sharing them. I love our abundance of mushrooms too. Next time you're over, come to Northumberland , the land of castles and a coastline like no other, and Holy Island, whose ancient name is Lindisfarne. You'll fill that new sketchbook. M

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you so much!! It's such a beautiful country, with heart-stopping landscapes and rich history you could just trip over. I will be visiting again in September with my best friend - I'll have to add these to our itinerary, so thanks for the tips!!

[@dominiquebilodeau2225]

Beautiful work! I like your style immensely, the pace at which you present your work is perfect, your voice is soothing and relaxing👍🏻 I’m a new fan of yours 🤩 🇨🇦

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Apologies for my delayed reply, but thank you so much! ❤️

[@charmde2008]

This so therapeutic. Love to see more. Beautiful and relaxing.

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@be291]

Thank you so much for sharing this video! I really loved to see these beautiful experiences through your eyes in your paintings...

[@MiaDraws]

I LOVE the mushroom spread!!!!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thanks! I think I could fill a whole sketchbook with just mushrooms :)

[@lynnmichelle5482]

Absolutely stunning, a beautiful book to remember life by ❤ I have a dog called Jet,named after the Whitby jet found in Whitby, he's black and glossy so it fits 😊 it's a a magical place, thankyou for the reminder ❤

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Aw I love that! Give Jet a pat from me?

[@AutumnHathaway]

This was so lovely and you share such great information. And you're right a Cabbage Patch Cat needs no explanation. 😂

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you so much for watching, and I hope you got something valuable from it

[@sketchbookscheming]

I love your sketchbook! So creative and elegant. All of the wedding-related art was so beautiful. Congratulations!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you so much! the wedding stuff makes it an extra-special keepsake

[@ceridwenmoon]

😮 just found your channel while looking for sketchbook inspo. I live in Peebles, and Morag was our officiant back on Samhain as well!!!! What?!! Congratulations 😊❤

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

OMG NO WAY!!!! Wow it's truly wild how small the world is. Morag is wonderful

[@cindylula]

I love how you cut in actual footage of the places you've been. And that your book has dual citizenship!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thanks! I think it's fun to see the real place, and then the artist's interpretation :) This next one will be (almost) all-American

[@Adushka1976]

Thank you so much for sharing ❤ I'm feel already like I was traveling with you 😂 Those are my favorite sketchbooks!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you so much for watching, and for coming on the journey with me

[@basrahg.250]

Wow wow wow !

[@denapersonius3117]

So inspiring!!! Thank you for sharing.

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thanks for watching! 🤍 🤍 🤍

[@poordearpamela]

this is amazing!!! I have just been admiring your art style recently and then to see you got married at Neidpath castle is incredible, we used to go there most saturdays growing up, such a gorgeous location

[@Fie.Franciska]

Amazing sketchbook! Thanks for all the lovely romance hehe 🫣😂

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thanks! I love love lol

[@aditisrivastava9189]

this sketchbook is STUNNING! you're so talented!!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

wow, thank you so much! Glad you're here

[@TaraFinlay]

I love 1) That you eloped to Scotland and 2) I was going to ask if you went to Gretna Green in manner of Jane Austen and then there you were at Chawton with the wallpaper that I painstakingly tried to replicate in miniature for my miniature late Georgian roombox for Christmas 2022. Love all these portraits!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you! I love Jane Austen so much, so we had to visit Chawton :) . Your miniature sounds lovely!

[@TaraFinlay]

@TheDiggingestGirl I hope to go someday. Being a Kentucky gal, are you aware of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) annual general meeting (like Austen Con) in KY every....August or something like that? I have never been (YET) but I do belong to a historical English Country Dance group and we have costume balls and everything.

[@tinka6468]

Lovely ❤ very beautiful works in there, I especially like seeing the landscapes as they are so different from your prints and because I‘m working on painting beautiful landscapes from my little adventures. Always great to see how other artists capture them and I really love your way ❤ thanks for sharing and congratulations to you and your husband! Soo beautiful, that’s how I imagine my elopement ❤

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

it's never really occurred to me that I don't do many landscapes until now - it's something I'd like to do more of. There's nothing more wonderful than a little wandering in an interesting place with a sketchbook in hand, no? and thank you so much! I bagged an absolute gem of a guy ❤

[@jayneelinor]

Just amazing work! Love all of it. Thank you for sharing your art, journeys and romance!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it :)

[@lulumoon9]

I love, love, LOVE your sketchbook style AND I love that you've interspersed this tour with footage of your glorious travels in England. My dream life!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you! I had hoped folks would be interested in the inspirations behind my drawings and paintings. And it was indeed a dreamy time - I'm really grateful I got to go!

[@lisablue6020]

This is the best sketchbook tour I've seen by anyone. I love your work, including the tree fail which I thought was gorgeous. You have a really interesting and engaging way of talking which kept me hooked till the end of the video, which I'm glad about as I would hate to have missed the stunning painting of Selu in the woods.

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

What an exceedingly kind thing to say! Thank you so much, I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to watch, and I'm glad you like the Selu painting as much as I do! ❤️❤️❤️

[@paulhoward7677]

Love it

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you! already 4 pages deep in the next one and it's coming to MEXICO

[@daveevans5717]

Fantastic work. I saw some your work in person through your husband. Also loved the videos interspersed throughout.

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thank you so much! He's so wonderful, always hyping me up ❤

[@pjlewisful]

thanks for taking us along on a lovely fantacy trip

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

thanks for coming along! 🤍

[@mariliaferreiraa]

you are an amazing artist. I am so glad I found your sketchbook tours, this inspired me immensely. What would be your advice for someone who is starting drawing? How to build this skill that you mastered so well?

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment! My advice would be practice practice practice, but to be more specific: 1) carry a sketchbook and pencil with you everywhere - if you remove as many barriers to being creative as you can, the more likely you are to fall into the habit of regular drawing; and 2) focus on observation - look at a thing, draw the thing, repeat. You're training your eye as much as your hand, and really it's about shortening the proverbial "distance" between the two, with the goal of your hand becoming an extension of your eye, if that makes sense. A book I always recommend is "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards . It was written in the 70s, but it's a mainstay for a reason - full of really useful exercises to help you along. I used it as a student, and again later as a teacher! Best of luck to you, dear

[@sandcastlelyndylynneklynch766]

wow! You are an amazing artist! Absolutely amazing!! This is like a travel video only extra special!! Keeep up the great work!! Do you ever sell any art? Blessings to you! New subscriber & Fan From USA! Feb 2024

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Wow, thank you so much! I'm so happy you liked my sketchbook - I'm almost finished with the next one. And yes, I do sell my art! You can find my shop on Etsy: thediggingestgirl.etsy.com :)

[@cindylula]

AWWW... You mentioned me!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

i love my bread i love my butter but most of all i love my mother! ❤❤❤

[@lizthomas6347]

Delightful videos, lovely paintings, look forward to the next one.

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thank you so much 😀 I'm working hard on my current sketchbook, and a new video is coming soon!

[@ruthjames9278]

just found you amazing work

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Thanks so much for being here :)

[@coalblack]

Absolutely gorgeous!! Funny you say that about the colors in the tree, that's my favorite part about that one. . The whole book should be published!!😮

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

lol thanks! maybe I'll give that color scheme another try ;)

[@emilyfranz4101]

Second video I am watching, and you have SERIOUSLY inspired me to create a sketchbook. I am an artist with a studio and I spend my life creating art for samples for my studio for classes, and I have lost my ability to make art for just me. Your art is incredible. I love it all. I love that you had a chance to marry your sweetheart in Scotland and spend so much time in England. Ah, to do that! Thank you for sharing this. My heart is happy.

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Wow, thank you so much, and thanks for taking the time to spend with me here! You give so much of yourself when you teach, it's so important to reserve just a smidge of that creative energy for yourself too. I hope you can find ways to carve out the time and motivation to make things that make YOU happy.

[@emilyfranz4101]

By the way, when I was in high school, I took an art class the enabled us to do linoleum cut prints. It was so fun, and having noticed you created a book on making linoleum block art, I decided to order it and see what it may bring! @@TheDiggingestGirl

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

@@emilyfranz4101 ooooohhhh yeah I am HERE for this journey!!! Thank you - I hope you find the book helpful. Have so much fun!!!

[@joyprewitt2785]

Your art is wonderful!!!! You are fast becoming my favorite artist on youtube!!!!!!! Watching from Kentucky!

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

Wow, how nice, thank you! Much love from one Kentuckian to another

[@kn-xd9hm]

You are so extremely talented and creative! I really like the colour schemes you use🌾

[@TheDiggingestGirl]

wow, thank you!