The Art of Travel With a Sketchbook: Six Tips To Get Started

by Mari Le Glatin-Keis

Explorers described their expeditions with detailed illustrated maps, commentaries and notebooks. In this fast-paced world, we need to slow down, see and record what's happening around us. This charming book will show you how! In this book, Mari gives six simple but effective tips to help launch you into the wonderful world of sketching.

Genres: Art

100 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Lila · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reads like a review of her workshop, which does seem lovely. The chapters are punctuated by examples from her students, but there is little specific instruction. The illustrations at the start of each chapter are wonderfully rendered.

Also, one has to love when Papyrus is used…

Overall, an encouraging book for people who want to start sketching, but perhaps not enough instruction to actually start.

[Rachel Kopel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Since I was ordering Red Letter Christians, I got myself *a little something.* I had wanted this book for a very long time, sight unseen. Well, it is better than I expected, really inspirational, informative, and great eye candy. What a lovely treat.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book because it is beautiful. It contains no art instruction at all. Instead, the author shows you lovely pictures from her own and her students' journals and talks about what using a sketchbook to preserve your feelings and memories from your trip. The idea is not to make sketches that you will some day turn into a masterpiece or to practice techniques or to learn something new, although you may do all three. Instead, she wants you to return to your vacation spot when you open your journal after you have returned home.

She includes her own narrative and that of her students. Some of those students have never taken an art class before and some are accomplished artists.

It's a refreshing approach and encourages you to start right now.

[Terrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounded up

A few interesting ideas but mostly a reinforcement of the casualness of sketching and the goal is to use no judgment, but to sketch for pleasure and to capture the moment.

[Jenifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a lovely little read! A beautiful peek into the travel books of several students of Mari Le Glatin Keis, along with tips and encouragements from Mari.

[Victoria Evangelina Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful book to look through. The main point: be free and use your tools to the best of your knowledge; the most important is to start and not stop! Inspirational.

[Gina Lento · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice little book on sketching