These sketches are from a trip I took to Michigan a few months ago. I used a 6” x 9” Stillman & Birn watercolor book and brought along my Winsor & Newton field sketch box filled with Holbein tube paint. The sketchbook is small enough that I could carry it everywhere and the paper is perfect for pencil, pen, and watercolor. Most of the time I sketched the subject using a Sanford Uniball Micro pen, without blocking the scene in pencil first. I painted the scenes later, using re