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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 […]
Travel Journallers’ Packing List For Those Who Want to Add an Arty Edge to Their Travel Memories What’s the first thing you think when about to take off on a trip? Chances are it’s… What clothes shall I pack?! Followed by a ritual spreading out of your wardrobe across your bed as you pick and […]
“Would you like to take part in a travel bloggers’ blog hop?” A travel bloggers’ what hop? Amanda, from Not a Ballerina (there’s a story there!) emailed asking me to join the hop, skip and a jump from travel blog to travel blog where, having been tagged, we in turn pass the baton on to […]
I love delving into travel journals – My travel journals, your travel journals (if you’ll let me take a peek!), or in this case… a published travel journal – The Travel Journal of Jacqueline & Lee Bouvier Jacqueline Bouvier – the future Jackie Kennedy Onnasis and her sister Lee’s travel journal from 1951 in Europe. One Special […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“It’s been 12 years since my last art lesson, but recently I decided to spend less time in front of a [computer] screen when I travel” When I heard Candace declare this on a video a few years ago my interest was instantly piqued. How many amongst us have also not drawn since primary school? […]
Travelling comprises of: Dream Plan Experience Share Here, on Journey Jottings, we mainly talk about the second two – travel experiences and how to record those memories for sharing and future enjoyment. But some people don’t only journal after the event, […]
When Patti left a comment on a blog post telling me how she created her travel journals in a scrapbook/photo format I asked her if she’d like to show and share with us the why, what, when, where and how she goes about it. The scrapbook images in this post are all from her Route 66 adventure […]
