The best way to see a place is by drawing it

I love sketching in situ. When I studied architecture we were encouraged to go out and create our own sketching journals. And, I fell in love with the immediacy and spontaneity of sketching live.

I often create my travel journals where words and lines intermingle, sometimes using text to accentuate a sketch, and at other times, a little sketch to support the text. I see it as a snapshot in time, a memory, an observation, capturing something that grabbed my attention. My drawings tell my own personal story of a place. too. I also take photographs.

Some artists paint and sketch