Comments on: How I Sketch: Part One, Materials http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/ ... an intermittent sketchblog ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Tanmay http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-74663 Tanmay Mon, 23 May 2011 19:56:16 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-74663 As a art lover I keep myself on a virtual journey for the art news.Today here I came as a passerby and returned with the link of your home page.Really a nice post! As a art lover I keep myself on a virtual journey for the art news.Today here I came as a passerby and returned with the link of your home page.Really a nice post!

]]> By: travel to sketch http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-74580 travel to sketch Sun, 15 May 2011 20:40:25 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-74580 Great sketch site - it IS fun to sketch and anyone can do it! Great way to really see a city, relax, and remember your journeys. Great sketch site - it IS fun to sketch and anyone can do it! Great way to really see a city, relax, and remember your journeys.

]]> By: Simon http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-74178 Simon Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:14:03 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-74178 I love your website and i absolutely love your sketches. I was once a boy who loved to draw but the art was lost in the world where jobs and schools and making a living are far more important. But I’m doing my backpacking trip throughout Europe in a week or so and i’m planning to sketch while i travel, i’m very excited. thanks for the info on the sketching kit, i’ll go get them tomorrow. Keep up the passion and embrace your God’s gift. simon I love your website and i absolutely love your sketches. I was once a boy who loved to draw but the art was lost in the world where jobs and schools and making a living are far more important. But I’m doing my backpacking trip throughout Europe in a week or so and i’m planning to sketch while i travel, i’m very excited. thanks for the info on the sketching kit, i’ll go get them tomorrow.

Keep up the passion and embrace your God’s gift.

simon

]]> By: ed http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-72620 ed Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:41:18 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-72620 I love your travel kit. Thanks for the great info! Could you recommend a cheaper alternative to the Sailor FP that would also have a EF nib and be suitable for Carbon Black ink? thanks, Ed I love your travel kit. Thanks for the great info!
Could you recommend a cheaper alternative to the Sailor FP that would also have a EF nib and be suitable for Carbon Black ink?

thanks,
Ed

]]> By: Addison Gast http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-71457 Addison Gast Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:41:45 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-71457 Wnderful inforaion for a beginner like myselft that wants to do my own book covers. Your methods are unique in my opinion and present a gentle personality in your work. I'll be searching for more. Wnderful inforaion for a beginner like myselft that wants to do my own book covers. Your methods are unique in my opinion and present a gentle personality in your work. I’ll be searching for more.

]]> By: Dorlynn http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-69517 Dorlynn Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:17:37 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-69517 As an artist who has also tried every art supply until I was satisfied I took your thoughtful list seriously. I had tried Fountain Pens before, but decided to order the Sailor 1911 EF nib along with the Platinum Carbon Ink and Visconti Ink Pot. What a find! I passed on Fountain pens before because I needed the waterproof element for washes and the dip pens were too messy with the shine from the Shellac of the India Ink always disappointing. I settled for Staedtler Pigment Liners and was quite happy until my ink started drying out. I started carrying a half a dozen 'spares' around until my portable pencil case was bulging! Your setup was completely satisfying to me. And the attractive Fountain Pen is an added bonus! Your website is very thorough and refreshingly generous. Thank you and may your travels be plenty and inspiring! As an artist who has also tried every art supply until I was satisfied I took your thoughtful list seriously. I had tried Fountain Pens before, but decided to order the Sailor 1911 EF nib along with the Platinum Carbon Ink and Visconti Ink Pot. What a find!

I passed on Fountain pens before because I needed the waterproof element for washes and the dip pens were too messy with the shine from the Shellac of the India Ink always disappointing. I settled for Staedtler Pigment Liners and was quite happy until my ink started drying out. I started carrying a half a dozen ’spares’ around until my portable pencil case was bulging! Your setup was completely satisfying to me. And the attractive Fountain Pen is an added bonus!

Your website is very thorough and refreshingly generous. Thank you and may your travels be plenty and inspiring!

]]> By: Megan Dana http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-59888 Megan Dana Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:30:50 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-59888 Your website is wonderful. I'm so glad to see people using the small sketchbooks. It seems that in art classes they are always trying to get us to use pads that are uncomfortably large for me (18x24 is WAY too big). My natural inclination is to work smaller, maybe not quite as small as you do but I haven't really gotten started with outdoor sketching yet. I'm a middle aged artist who got sidetracked by marraige, a software company job, and then widowhood. I did make a living selling my paintings of animals in San Francisco a long time ago, and illustrating software manuals later on. Thank you once again for the wonderful help and examples. Your website is wonderful. I’m so glad to see people using the small sketchbooks. It seems that in art classes they are always trying to get us to use pads that are uncomfortably large for me (18×24 is WAY too big). My natural inclination is to work smaller, maybe not quite as small as you do but I haven’t really gotten started with outdoor sketching yet.

I’m a middle aged artist who got sidetracked by marraige, a software company job, and then widowhood. I did make a living selling my paintings of animals in San Francisco a long time ago, and illustrating software manuals later on.

Thank you once again for the wonderful help and examples.

]]> By: Ann http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-59522 Ann Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:10:28 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-59522 Wonderful advice, thank you very much :) Wonderful advice, thank you very much :)

]]> By: Sean Durham http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-59119 Sean Durham Tue, 25 May 2010 23:56:43 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-59119 Really great to read this! I enjoyed the post tremendously but more for me is that people still take sketching while travelling seriously - you know like a part of a life style - I love it! It insipes me to pull out my still unfinished sketch books that I used to carry about with me. Thanks Really great to read this! I enjoyed the post tremendously but more for me is that people still take sketching while travelling seriously - you know like a part of a life style - I love it! It insipes me to pull out my still unfinished sketch books that I used to carry about with me. Thanks

]]> By: Watercolour Fun « Tree of Ben Curtis http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-56615 Watercolour Fun « Tree of Ben Curtis Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:54:11 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/09/08/sketching_materials/#comment-56615 [...] There is of course a ton of useful info on-line about how to start doing all this, but I particularly liked this post, How I Sketch: Part Two, Demonstration, despite being obsessed, as a typical beginner, with all the nice things I can buy in her previous post, How I Sketch: Part One, Materials. [...] […] There is of course a ton of useful info on-line about how to start doing all this, but I particularly liked this post, How I Sketch: Part Two, Demonstration, despite being obsessed, as a typical beginner, with all the nice things I can buy in her previous post, How I Sketch: Part One, Materials. […]

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