A recent project I am doing with my Plein air buddies is to gradually sketch our way along a street in town that has a great selection of Victorian buildings. For this project we had a small workshop showing others how to make a concertina journal, using one full sheet of watercolour paper glued to heavy card for the front and back.
The idea is to sketch a building on each fold, or over a couple of folds to create one long fold out panorama view of the street. There are a few newer buildings but we chose to ignore these and concentrate on the more interesting older ones.
I used a Uniball Vision Elite ballpoint pen for the sketches with watercolour on Bockingford paper.
The inspiration for this project comes from Helen Wilding. Her street sketches are amazing.
It’s amazing how many people stop and chat while we are on site, sharing their memories and stories of the buildings. This project will be a long term one, so I will keep you posted on the progress from time to time.
Ros Jenke 
What an interesting idea, and what striking paintings. Looking forward to seeing this develop. What size is each section?
Thanks Judy. Each section is about 8 x 8 I think.
These are fabulous Ros. I’ve been following Helen’s Fitzroy sketches too. Looking forward to seeing what come next. x
Hi Marg, good to hear from you. Helens sketches are fabulous aren’t they?