Adding small landscape drawings and paintings to your journals creates a wonderful sense of place, greatly enhancing your pages. John Muir Laws calls them “landscapitos!” Don’t be intimidated! These are fast, fun, and addictive.
I’ll take you on two or three explorations using my Virtual Field Trip technology; I’ll walk you through how I choose a scene to sketch, how I “edit” down the view so I’m not overwhelmed, and how I quickly map out the drawing using big shapes. Then we’ll add some beautiful watercolor.
Have your journal and pencil or pen with waterproof ink handy, along with your favorite watercolors. Have you seen my new Earth Palette? These are especially fun paints for landscapitos.
Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Resources from the Workshop
CHAT transcript — click > HERE <
Information and links from the workshop:
My favorite paints: Minimalist = a true primary triad (cyan, magenta, yellow) plus two wild-card colors for making browns and black. I like Daniel Smith Manganese Blue, Quinacridone Rose, and Aureolin Yellow, plus Burnt Sienna and Indanthrone Blue. Or, love Greenleaf & Blueberry’s Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, and their Red Ochre and Mayan Blue 2. https://www.exploringoverland.com/academy#color
https://www.exploringoverland.com/shop/minimalist-paint-tins-2-sizes-with-or-without-paint-samples
My notebook: Handmade leather, tutorial here: https://www.exploringoverland.com/field-arts-tutorials-list/2020/8/18/adding-pages-to-my-handmade-leather-journal
Grids: https://www.dickblick.com/products/compose-it-grids/
Perspex Palette: https://www.exploringoverland.com/shop/clear-perspex-palette-with-magnet-strip
Aspect Ratios information:
ASPECT RATIO = SHORTER EDGE ÷ LONGER EDGE
3 ÷ 3.75 = 0.8
4 ÷ 5 = 0.8
Click on image at right to enlarge:
White painter’s tape or washi tape:
https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-artist-tape/
https://www.amazon.com/MT-Solids-Masking-Tape-MT01P208/dp/B00DHZP2FS/
mt Washi tape can be found with a cute little cutter.
Field Trip: Southern Colorado
https://360exploring.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Mountains-Mesas-2020/output/index.html
Field Trip: Kenai Peninsula, Grewlingk Glacier (we didn’t have time for this one, but if you practice landscapitos here, please credit Kim McNett as photographer)
https://360exploring.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Alaska/output/index.html
Landscapitos from the Workshop
Practice isolating big shapes — Dragoon Mountains, Southern Arizona, USA
From the Virtual Field Trip “Mountains and Mesas” here: https://360exploring.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Mountains-Mesas-2020/output/index.html
This is the Dolores River, southern Colorado, USA.