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Sketchbook #113: Trip to Bonaire
Travel sketching is an amazing habit - I see more and better while I am on the road but also when I get home and scan everything - or look through my old sketchbooks - I get to re-live all the adventures :)
Trip to Bonaire - Underwater Adventures - Part 3
I wanted to have color and tried taking some color pencils with me. On the first attempt only yellow made it with me to the bottom of the sea :) And it proved to be not enough - but still interesting.
I taped underwater sketches in my main album and drew some treasures on the surface to cap the day.
I taped underwater sketches in my main album and drew some treasures on the surface to cap the day.
Trip to Bonaire - Underwater Adventures - Part 2.
On this dive we a quite large porcupine fish, several eels and a school of very interestingly-shaped Palometas (Trachinotus goodei).
Trip to Bonaire - Part 1.
I spent a week on Bonaire - drawing under and above water, scuba diving, kayaking in mangrove forest and enjoying wind, sun and a little bit of rain.
My current sketchbook traveled with me (#103) - it's is an 8.5" x 8.5" square kunst-papier sketchbook with a very soft paper. I hoped that it would be a good option for gouache as I found it recommended by an amazing illustrator who uses it a lot - Leah Goren but I think it's not strong enough for my layering and re-working experiments. Is's great for ballpoint pen and markers. I use a lot of paint in it and it's great if everything worked on the first layer!
I used rite-in-the-rain paper for these underwater sketches and a wonderful 2B mechanical pencil without metal parts and taped these sketches in my sketchbook after washing salt water off and drying them thoroughly.
You will find some notes on that I saw as well as basic communication with my dive buddy.
My current sketchbook traveled with me (#103) - it's is an 8.5" x 8.5" square kunst-papier sketchbook with a very soft paper. I hoped that it would be a good option for gouache as I found it recommended by an amazing illustrator who uses it a lot - Leah Goren but I think it's not strong enough for my layering and re-working experiments. Is's great for ballpoint pen and markers. I use a lot of paint in it and it's great if everything worked on the first layer!
I used rite-in-the-rain paper for these underwater sketches and a wonderful 2B mechanical pencil without metal parts and taped these sketches in my sketchbook after washing salt water off and drying them thoroughly.
You will find some notes on that I saw as well as basic communication with my dive buddy.
March 2014: Trip to Israel - Treasures
Things I found in Israel, things I saw in passing, things I ate and things that fell on me, some of these were gifts - all here :)
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