I love Watercolor Journaling and Urban Sketching - doing it, sharing it and teaching it! I journal everywhere I go and teach all over the country.

If you have a group/organization/club or just a group of friends, let's talk about arranging a workshop for you! Call me!

For a list of upcoming Workshops, visit the "Events & Workshops" page, and click on Rosemary's Workshops

The following are grouped by oldest first, with newest at the bottom. 

Watercolor Journaling or Urban Sketching??

There are many terms used to describe the process of art journaling. For me there is a small distinction between watercolor journaling and urban sketching in that they are both done in a sketchbook or journal and both document the world around you. I was doing Watercolor Journaling years before the term Urban Sketching came into being when many of the sketches shown here where created. For me, watercolor journaling is the art of capturing the world around you in watercolors and includes your written observations on the pages of a journal. 

To be a true Urban Sketch, in the purest sense, there should be visual indication of the location your sketch is capturing, a place that can be found on a map, as opposed to a sketch of, say, a vase of flowers or a scattering of nuts on a table, or a seashell drawn in your home or studio. Any and all media can be used, from the simple pencil to a digital drawing tablet and a stylus. 

The drawings of the rooms in my house were done during the Covid 19 lockdown and could be considered urban sketches, since technically, they were done on location. 

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact me!