Sketchbook Traveler Southwest

Keeping visual journals has been popular for centuries amongartist-travelers like Albrecht Drer, J. M. W. Turner, Katsushika Hokusai, and DavidHockney. Explorers like Jacques le Moyne, Alexander von Humboldt, CharlesDarwin, and Marianne North also recorded their journeys in sketchbooks and diaries.Topographical drawing was essential. Knowing what destinations looked like letvoyagers know they had arrived.Carrying this concept to the nextlevel,Sketchbook Travelerexpands plein air painting beyond the range of easels and backpacks, providing educatorswith instructional concepts. It gives professional artists many new (and old) ways tohone mobile sketching skills.

Inviting readers to explore their surroundings throughdrawing and writing, SketchbookTraveler is a field guide to mindful engagement with personalexperience in ways that make every day an adventure.[AuthorName]By James Lancel McElhinney[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]James Lancel McElhinney is a visualartist, author, and essayist known for travel journals and other worksexploring American rivers and Civil War landscapes. Exhibited widely,McElhinney earned a BFA from Tyler School of Art and MFA from Yale; his art isrepresented in many public and private collections.www.mcelhinneyart.com[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]30 color drawings[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Southwest[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]30 color drawings[/ColorPattern]