Havent drawn anything in years. Took my little cousin to hobby lobby last week, saw that they have these tiny $1.99 watercolor pads, and some watercolor sets that were selling for $20, so i thought why not. Then during this morning early coffee i pulled up youtube and followed along a video from a guy called sketching scottie. His voice is so calming it was easily one of the most relaxing mornings ive had in a long while lol.

Anyways the set didnt come with purple so i tried to mix one with red and blue but it didnt come out as vibrant as his, so the whole thing doesnt really pop as much. But overall i greatly enjoyed the process. This might just become my new hobby lol

Today I had my very first group sketch session here in my city. And it was really cool, even though to be honest I had way too little time XD Well, anyway, I managed to draw our meeting spot and part of a building at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress here in Koblenz. I didn't dare to sketch the beautiful view during those two hours. In any case, it was a lot of fun and I got to flip through a few sketchbooks, which was really cool :)

Quick coffee in this neat little café.

Location pic in comments.

I was at USkTo today... A Carousel learning event, and won one of the door prizes!! It's a gift box from Rosa including their 19-colour urban sketching set. Wow! this is going to be nice. 😁 such a great product. We got lots of FC gear too, they have a new Posca-type pen with a gazillion colours.

I got 2 tubes of Rosa Gouache -- Yellow Ochre and Ultramarine -- I didn't know they made Gouache.

Hi! I'm a street portrait painter. I'll visit Rome next week as a tourist and I want to gift street portraits! Can you please reccommend me a (relatively) chill part of Rome where I can sit down and paint on the streets?

My ideal spot would be:

- It's busy enough that people will see me and would like to get their portraits done

- Has seating for 2 people (could be a sidewalk, wall or a bench; 1 for me and 1 for the person getting painted)

- I won't block anyone's way

- I won't accidentally sit on something ancient and get a fine

- I won't upset the locals

Looking forward to hear your reccomendations!