From the Summer Trip: Rivers

A big chunk of time during this summer vacation was spent on the water. We hiked the banks of several rivers, visited waterfalls, kayaked /canoed, jumped across, swam intentionally, cooled off after a proper sauna, and just sat by the moving water of several wonderful rivers. I tried to sketch every time there was a chance - and here are some results. Markers, watercolor, and gouache, printmaking with stencils, some color pencils - all were used to make a selection of sketches below. And on the bottom, you will see some photos of the process. 

From the Summer Trip: Shores of the Baltic Sea

I experienced all sorts of weather on my trip and saw the Baltic Sea on a very sunny, warm, and calm day, extremely windy, quite cold and gray day, and everything in between - which only means that I had a typical summer interaction with it. I sat on a dune to sketch, hid from sun under a beach "mushroom" contraption, hid from wind behind a large boulder, and tried to sketch on the run while escaping a horde of mosquitoes. The sketches below are a result of these adventures.

Video Tour through Sketchbook 151: Travel Log

I made a video of a flip through my Sketchbook #151: July-August 2023 - it started with my trip to Croatia, then Denmark, then Estonia and Latvia. 

I will be posting some detailed sketches next week but for now, here is one that did not make it to the video - I guess I just turned two pages at a time:

this is center square in Tallinn, Estonia. There was so much going on there that I ended up concentrating on the sky :)