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“No sketches first, no studies, that’s long past: I do what many dream of, all their lives… Well, less is more… “ Robert Browning (1812–1889) from his poem (1855) ‘speaking’ as artist Andrea del Sarto to his wife Lucrezia Less is More I needed to tidy my studio, but where to start? Why is getting over […]
“I can’t draw to save my life” “I credit myself with zero artistic ability“ “I simply cannot draw“ These are all comments left by *you*, my readers, when I’ve been waxing lyrical about the fun and benefits of creating storymaps for recording holiday travel memories, rather than taking what has, to date, been the more traditional route of […]
This post forms part of my series How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… In the previous three posts about creating story-maps I’ve covered: How to Make the Most of Line Types to Express Your Travels How to Create the Illusion of Movement with Arrows And the Use of Pictogram Symbols for pictorially communicating your trips Now, how […]
This post is part of my series How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… Here, I illustrate my hand drawn sheets of pictogram symbols. Seeing the World in Symbols Pictograms are the type of symbol we see frequently on our travels and without even thinking what their meaning is, we comprehend them no matter what language we speak. Along with […]
As part of my series on How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… Arrows are Lifesavers Arrows have been a part of human survival for over 20,000 years and amazingly we still rely on them today for our existence. Not in the traditional sense of course, of going out to hunt for food, but relying […]
As part of my series How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… The Key to your Story Map When is a line not a line? When it’s on a map! As every line and symbol on a map is representational. Every line has a meaning that can, in some cases, require a ‘legend’ or a ‘key’ […]
Why do you treasure your travel journals? For their marvelous memories, of course! Memories of faraway places… exotic locations… & experiences often never to be repeated So, how do you capture your adventures? By words? Pages and pages of descriptive writing? By sketches? Whimsical lines and blobs of colour expressing an essence? By scrapbooking? Collating […]
A couple of days ago we went kayaking across Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland – As usual I took my camera. But we had a variety of nature encounters with fish, sea eagles, stingrays and turtles that were so fleeting (or occurred underwater) it was impossible to photographically capture them – So I published this […]
How to Capture Missed Moments It was the most perfect of days – A sky of pale cerulean blue across the horizon rising through wispy white clouds to a deep azure above. And a turquoise sea, which when looking into the sun shimmered and sparkled as though a canopy of diamonds was laid across its […]
Tell Your Story in Pictures When introduced to story telling as a child we ‘read’ picture books not through the words on each page, but via the [gorgeous] illustrations that bring the story to life. When we enter primary school we naturally express ourselves and share ideas (however silly) through drawings – But once we hit High School, we’re increasingly […]
