Connect to your travel¿ memories and appreciate your journey and surroundings through the mindful medium of¿watercolor. ¿
In Painting Moments, beloved artist and author of Painting Calm and Painting Landscapes, Inga Buividavice, guides you on another creative journey that blends artistic practice with a deeper connection to the world around you.
Travel painting and documenting your experiences off-screen is a popular activity and Inga’s warm, encouraging approach makes this accessible whether you’re new to watercolor or deepening your artistic practice.¿
Inga introduces all the basics you’ll need to get started, including materials and color theory. She then leads you through a range of inspiring ideas and projects, including:
- Locations capture the beauty of the/natural landscape, cityscapes, and architectural details of different destinations.
- Food: celebrate and commerorate the dishes and flavors you experience whilst travelling.
- Souvenirs: practice painting delicate tiles, decorative details, and intricate local ceramics.
- Nature: discover how shifting palettes and moods can bring the atmosphere of each climate to life on paper.
- Travel sketches: try portable, playful approaches to quickly documenting your journeys and everyday surroundings.
Along the way, you’ll also find advice on composition, and drawing and developing your creative practice, so that your painting becomes not just a skill, but a joyful and mindful habit.¿Illustrated throughout with Inga’s signature gentle style, Painting Moments is more than a how-to: it’s an invitation to reconnect with your experiences, nurture your creativity. and discover the mindful practice of watercolor.
Perfect for anyone drawn to the joy of experiencing different cultures beauty, this is a guide to return to again and again.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Slow travelling
Collecting moments
Painting on the Go
What to pack
Colour palette of the place
Patterns
Tickets, receipt, small papers and notes
Materials
Techniques
Washes
Colour
Composition
Perspective
Creating textures
Sketchbooks
Two colour exercise
Collage
Negative space painting
Drawing with a brush
10-minute exercise
Squinting exercise
Contour drawing
Loose painting
Projects
A Taste of Place: fruit, drinks, desserts
Souvenirs: china and ceramics
Buildings: houses, historical buildings, patterned tiles, panoramic city
Plants: individual species, flower gardens
Transport: cars, trains, boats
People: individual people, crowds
Final thoughts
Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
About the author
