Illustrated journal

By Gabi Campanario in Paraty, Brazil That “Five Day Art Challenge” going around on Facebook gave me the push I needed to scan and share the last of my Paraty Symposium sketches. I can’t quite remember what musings I wrote next to the drawings. Hopefully nothing too embarrasing!

Absolutely not your typical journal, I was amazed by the content in them. Jose Naranja worked for may years as an aeronautical engineer, he then decided to start documenting his travels and his thoughts in a very artistic way, in his Moleskine books. By the way, now he creates his own books and has instructions on his blog site, on how you can make your own. The thing I like most about them, is the relationship between the drawings, photos and his thoughts expressed in calligraphy. His…

“Nothing beats the feeling when you read an old journal and recall everything you’ve done.”

After years of wanting to keep a visual journal, I finally started in May of 2018. I began by calling it a logbook (thanks for the word, Austin Kleon), using a cheap sketchbook and materials, and o…

In June I departed for three weeks in France. The first part of my adventure was in Paris. Our first day we flew from Los Angeles directly to Paris. We arrived at 10:30 a.m., took a taxi to our apartment, went grocery shopping, set up house...Each day we explored a different district in Paris. Here is a selection of my sketches from my time in Paris. By our second day we were getting tired. We had kept a pretty steady pace since we got off the air plane. Today we covered over 6 miles on foot…

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Sections of houses visible throughout the Cotswolds | Sketchbooks

Sketching regularly can be a useful practice regardless of your artistic goals.