This Friday’s Feature artist is Joyce Harbin Cole!
An artist after my own heart, I love her travel journal collages of the Big Island of Hawaii!
She writes:
If you are traveling and you don't seem to be getting time to draw, carry your sketchbook anyway. As you go you can collect postmarks, national park stamps, stickers, maps, and postage stamps from places you visit. Don't forget to collect bits of ephemera like napkins, menus, ticket stubs and the like. It's good to glue an envelope in the back of your journal (if it doesn't have one already) in which to save all these goodies.
I'm also journaling around pages that I created while I was there, and on pages I had stamped with park stamps or postmarks while there. So my journal will be a collection of memories in no particular order. And lots of the pages are being done after I'm home and have more time to work on them...some purists only do theirs on site. But that's not me. And who is going to care anyway? The journal police?? I'll tell you what...creating a journal this way certainly extends all the fun of the trip way past the time I came home on the plane.
An artist after my own heart, I love her travel journal collages of the Big Island of Hawaii!
She writes:
If you are traveling and you don't seem to be getting time to draw, carry your sketchbook anyway. As you go you can collect postmarks, national park stamps, stickers, maps, and postage stamps from places you visit. Don't forget to collect bits of ephemera like napkins, menus, ticket stubs and the like. It's good to glue an envelope in the back of your journal (if it doesn't have one already) in which to save all these goodies.
I'm also journaling around pages that I created while I was there, and on pages I had stamped with park stamps or postmarks while there. So my journal will be a collection of memories in no particular order. And lots of the pages are being done after I'm home and have more time to work on them...some purists only do theirs on site. But that's not me. And who is going to care anyway? The journal police?? I'll tell you what...creating a journal this way certainly extends all the fun of the trip way past the time I came home on the plane.
Joyce tries out a Buddha Board before purchasing it!
I did love this little toy I found in a Hilo shop though, and I bought one. It's called a Buddha
Board....paint on it using just water, and as it dries, it disappears...and you are ready to start over!
Great way to learn to enjoy the process and not obsess.
Thanks to Joyce, I think I know what I’ll be getting my niece and nephew for Christmas!
These Buddha Boards come in red and blue, too – their favorite colors!
To find out more about Joyce, visit her Draw Daily blog!
TGIF!
Mary
Board....paint on it using just water, and as it dries, it disappears...and you are ready to start over!
Great way to learn to enjoy the process and not obsess.
Thanks to Joyce, I think I know what I’ll be getting my niece and nephew for Christmas!
These Buddha Boards come in red and blue, too – their favorite colors!
To find out more about Joyce, visit her Draw Daily blog!
TGIF!
Mary
