Travel Sketching
PD-Class | Registration opens Monday, May 4, 2026 9:00 AM EDT
Exploring the world becomes even more thrilling if you carry a sketchbook. Artists travel at a different pace than most tourists, taking the time to sketch and truly look at the places they visit. This class will cover principles of composition, perspective, and basic use of line and watercolor to quickly put travel memories on the page. Travel sketching has become a hip, analog way to discover the world.
- #2 pencil with an eraser,
- 05 and 08 micron pens,
- Stillman and Birn 9 x 12 inch spiral bound sketchbook (Alpha or Epsion series),
- Travel sized watercolor pallet (mine is a Windsor Newton with 14 color pans),
- Pentel water brush (water goes in the handle),
- Black Prismacolor pencil,
- Compact artist stool
Thomas Thorspecken
Thomas Thorspecken (Thor) studied animation and illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He worked for ten years at Walt Disney Feature Animation. In 2009 he made a new year's resolution to do one sketch a day and share it with a worldwide community of urban sketchers through his online site Analog Artist Digital World www.analogartistdigitalworld.com