Travel Sketches - Drawings by Traveling Artists
Travel sketchbooks and journals have a personal touch that will bring back memories of your trip for years to come. Here are a collection of resources for the travelling artist.
Sketching Spirit
This art professor's blog includes many sketchbook drawings, and they are really something different: crisp, clean and beautiful line drawings, with a striking sense of composition.
This art professor's blog includes many sketchbook drawings, and they are really something different: crisp, clean and beautiful line drawings, with a striking sense of composition.
Bill Sharp's Costa Rica Travel Journal
Pages from Bill Sharp's travel journal. Lovely, relaxed sketches and bright fresh color. Lots of text too - a journal, after all, can include text as well as image. Check out the rest of Bill's website and enjoy his terrific sketchblog.
Pages from Bill Sharp's travel journal. Lovely, relaxed sketches and bright fresh color. Lots of text too - a journal, after all, can include text as well as image. Check out the rest of Bill's website and enjoy his terrific sketchblog.
Travel Sketches by Valentina Komarova
Beautiful, colorful pastel sketches by artist Valentina Komarova capture her impression of European towns and countryside. Note how fresh and simple these drawings are.
Beautiful, colorful pastel sketches by artist Valentina Komarova capture her impression of European towns and countryside. Note how fresh and simple these drawings are.
Holy Land Travel Drawings
Scottish artist David Roberts, born in 1796, traveled extensively through the Holy Land, producing astounding drawings of sites like the Mosque of Omar and the Church of the Nativity, resplendent with exotic detail.
Scottish artist David Roberts, born in 1796, traveled extensively through the Holy Land, producing astounding drawings of sites like the Mosque of Omar and the Church of the Nativity, resplendent with exotic detail.
Michael Kluckner
Read about author and artist Michael Kluckner's first efforts at keeping a travel sketchbook. A short page with a few nice images, but well worth a look. Click over to his home page.
Read about author and artist Michael Kluckner's first efforts at keeping a travel sketchbook. A short page with a few nice images, but well worth a look. Click over to his home page.
Lynne Perella - Sketchbook Pages
There are only a few images on this page, and they take a little while to load, but they are a refreshingly colorful change from the usual sepia-laden Old Master impersonations and irritatingly expert watercolours. These images feel like the sort of thing I'd like to bring back from a holiday.
There are only a few images on this page, and they take a little while to load, but they are a refreshingly colorful change from the usual sepia-laden Old Master impersonations and irritatingly expert watercolours. These images feel like the sort of thing I'd like to bring back from a holiday.
Artist at Large
The site for the travelling artist. Share your observations with other travellers, catch up with art events around the world, get travel tips and maybe be inspired to go book a flight somewhere, sketchbook in hand.
The site for the travelling artist. Share your observations with other travellers, catch up with art events around the world, get travel tips and maybe be inspired to go book a flight somewhere, sketchbook in hand.