Featuring 31 captivating New England scenes, this interactive art journal serves as both a creative outlet and a travel companion. It encourages users to engage more deeply with their surroundings by incorporating painting, drawing, and writing. Ideal for artists and travelers alike, it offers inspiration and prompts to enhance the experience of exploring the region's beauty.
A portable, interactive art journal and field guide that inspires through depictions of 31 New England scenes and encourages a deeper engagement with travel through painting, drawing, and writing
Keeping visual journals has been popular for centuries among artist-travelers like Albrecht Dürer, J. M. W. Turner, Katsushika Hokusai, and David Hockney. Explorers like Jacques le Moyne, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, and Marianne North also recorded their journeys in sketchbooks and diaries. Topographical drawing was essential. Knowing what destinations looked like let voyagers know they had arrived. Carrying this concept to the next level, Sketchbook Traveler expands plein air painting beyond the range of easels and backpacks, providing educators with instructional concepts. It gives professional artists many new (and old) ways to hone mobile sketching skills.Inviting readers to explore their surroundings through drawing and writing, Sketchbook Traveler is a field guide to mindful engagement with personal experience in ways that make every day an adventure.
This modern painting guide is written by league instructor and artist James L. McElhinney in cooperation with the Art Students League of New York. This book invites the reader into the studio classrooms of some of the League's most acclaimed and beloved instructors for lessons on a variety of fundamental topics and approaches in painting.