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The Art of Travel with a Sketchbook

This is  the wonderful brand-new book by Mari Le Glatin Keis.  A native of Brittany, France, she has dedicated herself to book illustrations and has been leading sketching workshops in Europe, Mexico, and the Pacific Northwest.

Full of lots of simple but effective tips to help launch you into the wonderful world of sketching.  She shares an intimate way to record travel experiences, to slow down and capture the moment.  It is about letting the hand record what the eye sees with whatever tool is available, and a wonderful way to enjoy your travel experiences to the fullest.

Wonderful ideas for capturing your travels with watercolors, color pencils, or whatever is at hand.  Perhaps pastels, or acrylics, or felt pens.  Ways to build up layers of colors.  Doing small vignettes instead of a whole scene covering a full page.

Collect, tear, glue.  Ticket stubs, boarding passes, maps, newspapers or whatever you find.  Perhaps seeds, peels, spices, stamps, labels, receipts, shells, buttons, coins, or ???

A beautifully illustrated volume with lots of ideas and inspirations for your travel journaling and sketches. 

This book is a beautiful soft-cover book with 98 pages printed on a heavy paper, and full of lots of ideas for your artistic journeys.  Size is 11.5 inches by 8.5 inches, a nice comfortable size for reading.