So inspirational!! I hope your sketchbook is protected by a museum someday...thankyou..It makes me want to try this..with my home city. Portland OR... I have been drawing and watercolor painting with a long time buddy of mine...we draw and paint in public various places and it is amazing how many people stop and chat...and I think that they would also like to have a social drawing and painting experience...

Thank you very much for your enthusiastic comment, Sweet Street!!! 😃 Ha ha, the museum thing is so fun and adorable!!! 😅😁😘 Yes, that's a lot of fun to do journaling in our home cities and known places too! So much to see, to enjoy, to enhance, and it can be a way to rediscover a place too. 😊 Lucky you that you have a drawing and painting buddy to sketch with!! 😃👍 That's awesome!! Yes, that's sometimes funny how some people don't care at all and others seem to amazed and interested that we are sketching a place just like that. 😊 Some teens say "But did you just draw all of this now ?! Here?!!!". 😅😁 You could create an Urban Sketching group if you think the people you see would like to join too. In fact, there probably is already one in Portland! Do you sketch with them sometimes ?! 😌 urbansketchers-portland.blogspot.fr

Oh I didn't know about that! I am going to have to get a little brave (artist hermit me) and get out there :)... the main thing for so many artists and especially in a group setting is to unplug our inner critic... This is what so many people bring up conversationally if they see me drawing in public and I struggle with it of course too.. I started watercolors...using my brush cleaning page...as the start of a new painting..because that way I can't make it worse and I am more likely to take risks and be free-er... I have gotten a tad out of practice...now needing reading glasses and facing that change....so I am thankful for your inspiration, so glad to see you sharing life this way :)

Hi Sweet Street! Wonderful, I am so happy I made you discover the Portland Urban Sketchers group! 😃 I hope you will join them sometimes, that's so nice to share great time with other artists. Yes, our inner critic is evil but, you know, it shouldn't be stronger with other sketchers because we all know sketching is difficult and are impressed by what others are doing and all sharing to shares things together. 😊 Your brush cleaning technique seems really fun and a good idea! Good luck with your glasses then! 😬😅 I am so glad your follow me. ❤️ My first artist VLOG is coming!! 😱😃

I will stay tuned !!

Thank you so much Bojoura! I will!! 😃 Thanks for your compliments and for binge watching my channel. 😁🤣😘 I started to make videos again a few weeks ago but now I am uploading severals videos every week and am very excited with the channel. 😊 See you, then!! 😉

Thanks o8rufus. 😊

Joy, thank you do much for being so enthusiastic too about my sketchbook work, my videos, my presence on KZfaq! 😃😘 Yes I like to watch videos with enthusiastic charismatic people sharing things they are passionate about so I try my best so that my passion shows the other side of the screen. 😊 Because passion is so wonderful!!!! 😃 Along with creativity, of course. 😌 I am really happy you found my sketchbook could be a good inspiration and it gave you new ideas. 😊

Thanks!!!!!!!! 😊

Thank you so much Fiona. 😊😘

Yaaayy and it's live now!!! 😃🎉 Thanks for your enthusiasm, Elga. 😊 I hope that watching my videos will help you to loosen up if that's what you want to! Use a big juicy brush to paint, set a 15 mn alarm, splatter on the page first thing, tilt a bit your paper or sketchbook to encourage the melting and you are good to go?!! 😝 Just some thoughts. 😌

Thank you so much for your kind words about the sketchbook Corikay. 😊 I admit I don't usually paste or glue things that thick but I got carried away by the shell and coins appeal I guess! 😁 And I am glad I did it. As you said, the sketchbook is not so enormous so it opens opportunities and can give us new ideas! 😛 A few years ago, I started to write down ideas for an article than would have been called "the craziest things I pasted in my sketchbook". I should definitely make it with a video. 🤣

Hi Aneta, I am so happy you liked my sketches, my channel. Thank you so much for the sub. ☺️ Your compliments make me really happy. 😊

Thanks a lot for these lovely compliments Joh Ma. 😊

Merci thank you Isabelle. 😉 C'est sympa d'être venue voir la vidéo ! 😌 Journaling/Sketchbooking/TravelJournaling rocks!!! 😝🤘

Merci Jean-François, ça me fait très plaisir !! 😊

Oh, yeah, you're right!! 😅 I think I can take selfies with the Instax so next time I should think about doing it or print one from my phone afterwards (I remember I took a crazy selfie of me wearing my scarf on my head to keep my ears a bit warm, as I didn't have any hat 🤪). Thanks for your compliments about the journal. See you!! 😀

Thanks a lot for your compliments about my style muhlenstedt! 😊 Yes, these few sketching days were a bit tough because of the cold and sketching mostly alone but, then, I spent one month hanging out with sketching friends in the US and Canada in a wonderful summer weather so I am not going to complain! 😉

Thanks for your comment on this video too Evangeline. 😊 I have to pursue this minimalistic idea, indeed, and my love for colors. Thank you for letting me inspire you! 😃

Hi Emma, thank you for your compliments and your reaction to the video! 😊 About not doing it previously, I know this feeling but we can never do it all. 😌 When I started sketching and painting, a few years ago, I thought about the time when I was not sketching that I didn't recorded the same way... Some times are recorded with photography, some are not... Some times with sketching, some are not... And now that I am more and more interested by the video, I tend to think, sometimes : what a shame that I didn't do it sooner and record some other life moments with filmmaking!... 😯 But we can't spend our life having regrets about what we didn't do at some point. 😊 This is a nice thing that our life is recorded one way or another at some point (it can be letters you write, or journaling or poetry, or photos, or sketches or anything) and this is good to keep evolving and finding new way to record the lovely things in life and express ourselves! That's wonderful that you decided that you would record your next travels in a sketchbook! 😃👍 You can even start to record things from your life right now. 😊 It will be nice for the recording, and a good practice to be prepared for the situations you will encounter when traveling. I am happy I inspired you, keep the creativity flowing, Emma! 😝

:-) I've started by recording where I live and the house/house-items before we move. I'm loving it. x

Wonderful!!! :D

Hello Paint to Paper! 😊 Thank you so much for your lovely compliments about my sketchbook, my style, the adventure! ☺️ I am really happy you liked the journal. 😌 Yes, I sometimes tend to sketch too big and the sketch takes the whole page but that's a shame, as I prefer when several ones are put together on the page, along with the ephemera. 😀 That's one of the reason I like big sketchbooks too. I talk about it in this video : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5uGlJyGz67agXU.html. 😌 See you!!

Hello Magdalena! 😊 I am happy you liked the sketchbook and it gave you a bit of fresh air and sense of traveling abroad. 😁😉 I plan the video about the palette really soon, promise. 😘 (and more sketchbook tours 😃)

Thank yoooooou Moonlightlin!! 😃 Welcome!!! 🎉😝 😘 Your compliments about the channel made me really happy, thanks!! I hope you will enjoy watching the other videos as well. 😊 See you!!! 👋 😌

Thank you very much for your compliments Sharon. 😊 I am so happy you liked the video!!! 🎉 The other paper is by the French brand Clairefontaine. I ma not sure you can find it outside of France... It's the "Papier dessin cartridge Studio Gerstaecker by Clairefontaine", 160 gsm. I can by it A4 size or A3 etc. 😊 It's more like Bristol board.

Thanks a lot Nichole and welcome then!! 🎉😃

Hi ShinYi-Nomi!!! 😃 Thank you so much for your wonderful enthusiastic comment! I was so happy to read it. 😊 I changed the name of my channel rather recently so I am really happy you liked it so much! I am doing a video to talk about Alice in Wonderland and explain why I chose "Following the White Rabbit" as a name for my channel. ☺️ I think I will definitely need to come back in Iceland too with a better equipment, more clothes, more prepared, and in order to enjoy other places than Reykjavik. 😉 I am French, by the way. I live in North of France near Belgium. 😊 And you, in the US?! Thanks for all your compliments, I am glad I inspired you with my sketchbook. 😁 Yes, I always make my sketches pleinair, in the fields, on location! 😅 I like having the subject in front of my eyes, feeling the place, and the adventures that goes together with this kind of "Urban Sketching" approach usually make the sketches more spontaneous, more dynamic, looser so nicer. 😊 Thanks again for your great feedback on my sketches and sketchbook!! I love your videos too, I am going to make a comment there as well. 😌😉 See you! 😘

Hi! Thanks a lot for your compliments!! ☺️ I live in North of France, near Belgium. 😊

Thank you so much!! 😊 I hope so!!! Finger crossed. 😃 It seems that I have quite a bit of Australien followers. ☺️🧡

The other paper is by the French brand Clairefontaine. I ma not sure you can find it outside of France... It's the "Papier dessin cartridge Studio Gerstaecker by Clairefontaine", 160 gsm. I can by it A4 size or A3 etc. 😊 It's more like Bristol board.

In Germany we have this paper

Oui, j'aime bien aussi et d'autres personnes m'ont fait remarquer également que de passer de l'aquarelle à l'encre, des surfaces aux lignes etc. permet que ce soit moins "lassant", de dynamiser le carnet et le rendre plus attractif. 😊

Thanks for your your feedback Nikki, 😊 😅 🤣 I was wondering about making sketchbook flip through only with music sometimes. 😉 I hope you will like them more. 😌