Illustrated journal sketchbooks

Sketching is the most authentic form of “thinking like an architect”. As every architect’s thoughts are different, their…

In June I departed for three weeks in France. The first part of my adventure was in Paris. Our first day we flew from Los Angeles directly to Paris. We arrived at 10:30 a.m., took a taxi to our apartment, went grocery shopping, set up house...Each day we explored a different district in Paris. Here is a selection of my sketches from my time in Paris. By our second day we were getting tired. We had kept a pretty steady pace since we got off the air plane. Today we covered over 6 miles on foot…

Recent page in my sketch journal #drawyourday @sdionbaker

A quick update... I am still markering and using a moleskine cahier... Have just started my second one. Today I just had a light bulb moment (like all light bulb moment they seem very obvious afterwards...) As much as I loved working through the first moleskine- drawing only on one side of the page – I never fully bonded with the book. (getting severe water damage didn’t help much either!) It is because I wasn’t working across the spread that it feels more like a sketchbook (each page a…

In order to become a better artist, it's recommended that you keep an art journal…

Last week, I talked about how to Defeat Artist’s Block for Good . If you missed that post, you may want to check it out before reading on. In that article, I mentioned how important it is to keep a list of things to paint . This is one of the best things I’ve done for my creativity. Today, I’m

Aug 5, 2019 - Waiting… and observing✏️ #drawing #observationaldrawing #sketch #urbansket… Warten … und beobachten✏️ #Zeichnung #beobachtungszeichnung #skizzieren #urbansketching #Zeichnung

Dear Wonderful, Creative You: I’ve been thinking about how to give you some of the goodies that I’ve been developing for my Diving Deep: Intuitive Art Journaling class, and I’ve got a sweet idea. The PDF that I’m developing for the class is THOROUGH. I love being able to develop solid and inspiring resources for […]