Sketching or camera?
A journey is special. A few days in a special place, that you want to remember for as long as possible.
Sketching is a great alternative to the camera. It is much easier to take a photo, but it is so much more rewarding to make a sketch or painting. Pointing a camera at someone and taking a picture is not easy. But you can be more discrete with a pencil and brush. Most people are flattered to be the subject of a scetch or painting.
If you study the scene as you paint it, rather than point and click with a camera, you will remember much more. As you study the scene you will become more aware of the sounds and smells, the breeze, the warmth or cool.
If you sketch and paint it, it is no longer a single instant in time, it becomes a period of time where all the senses are being stimulated. When you look at the painting you will remember how the people moved, how the light changed, the movement, language, traffic, smells and sounds. When you look at it later you will remember a pause in a cafe, or a quiet moment in a park, sitting on the steps of an ancient site or a museum.
You know a camera take a picture in a couple of milli seconds, but a drawing can hold much more “time” in the image. You cannot compare a picture postcard photo to an impressionist´s painting.
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