Cafe Sketch: How to Make it Simple and Enjoy the Process 🎨 Ink and Watercolors

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Hi everyone, today I'm sharing with you my morning finding inspirations at Liberty Cafe in Mount Pleasant in Vancouver. I first sketched my coffee, breakfast sandwich and cookie. Then I captured 2 main characters and a couple people in the back, along with the cafe interior surrounding these people. Please watch the video until the end for my full process composing this sketchbook page using pen and watercolors.
🎨 Materials I used:
- Sailor's fude fountain pens (bamboo green and dark blue)
- Noodler's Brown 41 Ink (to fill the fountain pen)
- Mungyo watercolors
- Etchr Mix-Media A4 size Landscape Sketchbook
- Holbein Water Brush (large tip)
- Holbein water brush (medium tip)
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  • @nancye7520
    @nancye75204 ай бұрын

    What a great cafe! Your food jumps off the plate 😊

  • @gloria7415
    @gloria74154 ай бұрын

    You’re always smiling as you sketch☺️ It’s really nice to see your enjoyment for your art even when you explain the details of your process so carefully!

  • @andruschka049
    @andruschka0494 ай бұрын

    I totally agree with @pplsmyl, who describes your style as 'loose but detailed' - that's exactly what blows me away each time I watch your videos! Love it ❣

  • @mistymorris5677
    @mistymorris56774 ай бұрын

    It's always a pleasure to watch you sketch and paint your surroundings. Your cafe sketches are some of my favorites. You make it look easy. :)

  • @war1963
    @war19634 ай бұрын

    Love your work

  • @maureendaunt8665
    @maureendaunt86653 ай бұрын

    Love your work and your detailed explanation. So joyful in delivery and execution. Thankyou so much, you have shown me how to relax more when sketching and not focus on precision. 🙏🤗

  • @juliec.
    @juliec.4 ай бұрын

    Wowza…absolutely amazing !!! 👍🏻👍🏻

  • @createwithbarbbl4125
    @createwithbarbbl41254 ай бұрын

    Very nice. Not easy to simplify a scene with so much going on. I love this one. Thank you.

  • @annagray4208
    @annagray42084 ай бұрын

    Gorgeous Becky, thank you again. ❤

  • @ninawilhelm36
    @ninawilhelm364 ай бұрын

    Hey Becky, I sketched and painted along with you for the food part of the video. Not ready for all the background details but I'll tackle it soon. So enjoy your videos.

  • @amyirelandd
    @amyirelandd4 ай бұрын

    Great video Becky! It's great seeing the image up in the corner, as always I love how you interpret what you're seeing. Your drawings always make the environment look even better 😂 really enjoyed this one ❤

  • @eunahpark4286
    @eunahpark42864 ай бұрын

    so lovely ♡ Thank you.

  • @rachelparry9509
    @rachelparry95094 ай бұрын

    I love your paintings dear Becky. I like watching the process from start to finish and listening to your detailed commentary, I am learning alot from you. I especially like how you incorporate your coffee and snack into your paintings, what a treat to keep you going while painting! Thankyou for your videos. 😊

  • @BeckyCao

    @BeckyCao

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much! ☺️☀️

  • @jenniferjenniferr8391
    @jenniferjenniferr83914 ай бұрын

    Becky, I absolutely love your work! Thank you for continuing to share.

  • @karenkaren9526
    @karenkaren95264 ай бұрын

    Wow Becky. I haven’t checked in with you for a while. You have improved. Wow wow wow

  • @makeanddocrafts
    @makeanddocrafts4 ай бұрын

    🤩🤩

  • @anndavidson287
    @anndavidson287Ай бұрын

    Great Becky 😊 I so enjoy your blog and travels urban sketching¡!! Thanks! ❤ from artist in Ontario.

  • @pplsmyl
    @pplsmyl4 ай бұрын

    love the narration, the speed and accuracy, the simplicity, loose but detailed...shirt, color, etc. Good perspective and love your composition. New subscriber from Canada

  • @BeckyCao

    @BeckyCao

    4 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️☀️🌈 Nice to have a fellow Canadian on board!

  • @getsomecolourinyourlifedav2478
    @getsomecolourinyourlifedav24784 ай бұрын

    Must have very good self discipline painting while your food is in front lol i wouldve taken a photo and munch munch 😂

  • @JoAnneSmith-di8ok
    @JoAnneSmith-di8ok4 ай бұрын

    Very nice. Thank you!

  • @connyherpich6199
    @connyherpich61994 ай бұрын

    hello Becky, I'm loving your drawings

  • @Justme_247
    @Justme_2474 ай бұрын

    ❤😊

  • @Nulladiessinelinea1
    @Nulladiessinelinea14 ай бұрын

    🌸🌸🌸🌸

  • @margaretpinsent6388
    @margaretpinsent63884 ай бұрын

    Hi, I've just come across your video and I'm fascinated. I've used fountain pens to write all my life (I'm 73) so I'm especially interested in the pens you're using. The ease of use and the effect you get are wonderful. Drawing with a fountain pen! I must check them out, I'm guessing the nibs are special. What do you like about them? Thanks

  • @gloriaoppen8412
    @gloriaoppen84123 ай бұрын

    I love you style of art. Did you give this piece of art to the restaurant owner?

  • @simaabedini5908
    @simaabedini59084 ай бұрын

    I like your sketck book its big enogh to capture your surrounding hat brand and size is this please.

  • @BeckyCao

    @BeckyCao

    4 ай бұрын

    It's the Etchr brand, mix media, A4 size Landscape format sketchbook. Cold press paper.

  • @messengerofgoodnews
    @messengerofgoodnews4 ай бұрын

    Is your Mungyo watercolor pallete/kit a travel size? I just bought one, but it seems as though yours looks like mine but larger. Mine has two rows of half pans and is the Sargent Art 12ct case. Doesn't the wobbliness of the tiny pans drive you nutty? It's like they're going to fall out any second. I'll likely add a magnet sticker to the bottom to keep them more secure/in place.

  • @BeckyCao

    @BeckyCao

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes it is a travel size palette, probably the smallest one in the art supplies market. About the size of my hand.

  • @darlenemc3586
    @darlenemc35864 ай бұрын

    I'm still buying my supplies. I can't find your brand of watercolors in America. I didn't see them on Amazon or Dick Blicks Art in Seattle. Do you recommend another brand that's local? Where do you buy your watercolors? I'd love too use your favorite brand. Thanks Becky. Have a great day!

  • @BeckyCao

    @BeckyCao

    4 ай бұрын

    Hi Darlene, I also enjoyed using Sakura Koi watercolors, and I recommend the 24-color set. Have a lovely day!

  • @darlenemc3586

    @darlenemc3586

    4 ай бұрын

    I found and bought the 24 Mungyo watercolors set off of Amazon for only $20.00. I'm so excited to get all the supplies tomorrow. I bought the journal you recommended and the same ink pins and ink. I found the ink on Amazon for $21.00 and it arrives in a week. I bought some technical markers until the Noodlers Ink arrives and the same watercolor brushes.

  • @darlenemc3586

    @darlenemc3586

    4 ай бұрын

    Hi Becky. I have been trying the paints and brushes out before I take a class because it's been 30 years since I've used watercolors and they are so different from acrylics. I am loving the experience and want to thank you for the inspiration. I love the paint set from Mungyo and I am blown away by the paintbrushes you recommended! Wow they are a delight to use and the perfect brush. I have Rosemary brushes and these are waaaaay better and more fun to use. Maybe it's the watercolors, too. Thank you for everything. You make art fun!

  • @simaabedini5908
    @simaabedini59084 ай бұрын

    Why does it seem so hard to start doing this in public? Any suggestion for begginers?

  • @BeckyCao

    @BeckyCao

    4 ай бұрын

    I started doing this in public only 2 years ago, after sketching mostly at home for like 8 years. It's better to start practicing sketching the things and views outside your home windows first, before making the big step sketching in public.

  • @pellier08
    @pellier084 ай бұрын

    Another coffee, another cookie, same drawing different place.

  • @darlenemc3586

    @darlenemc3586

    4 ай бұрын

    lol! I paint landscapes and it's another river, another tree, another mountain! That's what it means to be an artist. We paint the same things over and over and over again because it's so much fun and enhances our lives tremendously. Please give art a try and see how it enhances your life. God Bless!

  • @BeckyCao

    @BeckyCao

    4 ай бұрын

    😁

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