Great Journal Blogs/Sites

[Studio-1-F]

Please forgive any dupes!

Example sketchbooks:
* Susan Abbott Journals: Click on any of the place names to browse her travel sketchbooks.
* Simo Capecchi's collection of travel sketches is here. (Her blog is here.)
* Travels with a Sketchbook: The website is very nicely done.
* Smithsonian Archives of American Art/Visual Thinking, Curator’s Choice: Sketchbooks online
* Michael Kluckner Travel Art
* Susan Cornelius' Travel Sketchbook entries, on her blog.
* Susan Iannucci's The Watercolor Traveler.
* Illustrated Watercolor Journaling.
* Enrique Flores' Traveling With a Watercolour Box. Click on any of the sketchbooks at the bottom of the page.
* Lisa Cheney-Jorgensen's (Boise, Idaho) daily sketchbooks.
* Travel Sketches by Ronell van Wyk
* "Pencil Sketches" on GurneyJourney from James Gurney
* Land Sketch from Nathan Fowkes -- I LOVE this guy.
* Artists' Sketchbooks Online -- hundreds of links! WOW!
* YouTube playlist of travel sketchbooks compiled by Katherine Tyrrell

General Info websites:
* "Get That Sketchbook Out and Use It!", by Diahn Ott
* Russ Stutler's "Book" about Sketching is excellent!
* Flickr's Weekly Challenge Master List: Subjects for daily practice.
* Drawing and Sketching - Squidoo's Resources for Artists: Miscellaneous info and links.
* Doodles: Very simple but useful lessons.
* Painting On Location, from John Lovett (watercolor sketching)
* MacEvoy's (the Watercolor Guru) Painting Outdoors and Plein Air Paint Kit
* Excellent material from Katherine Tyrell:
- 10 Tips for How to Sketch People
- Making the Most of a Painting Holiday (this is a PDF)
- Sketching for Real: A Class with Assignments
- Learn How to Sketch

Hope all this helps!

Jan

[Studio-1-F]

One more thing: I'd like to second Katherine's recommendation of the Urban Sketchers site. This is a TREASURE TROVE of inspiration! Go to this page, the Membership Page. It's organized by country. (Which is delightfully handy if you're planning a vacation!) Each member's blog is linked from his or her name. Outstanding stuff.

And I (naturally!) forgot to mention my own page: Travel Sketchbooking. I've left the old pic from 2007 there, but I try to update the text or the lists when I find something new and cool.

Jan

[crazyboutart]

Hi,
I couldn't help but join in to just let u guys know that there's this guy called mathew on youtube who teaches at the NY animation school I think and he usually takes videos of sketchbooks maintained by his students...most of the sketchbooks are animation based but are an inspiration to people like me. I've provided a link that takes you to his youtube link. He also posts a lot of free tutorials on youtube. Hope you all enjoy looking at some of his students works.. I surely can't seem to get tired to watching the same videos again and again.. Just click on the link and do a search for 'sketchbook' if you wanna see only the sketchbook videos.

Btw. His tutorials are awesome too...Learnt quite a lot from them..

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthew39arch

Enjoiii...

[Sizun]

Some of my favorite journals/sites have already been listed. Here are two more I'm a follower of :

Life Sketcher
Nina Johansson

[Sizun]

I would like to add Guillaume Bonamy's beautiful work :
http://www.gbonamy.blogspot.com/

[RainySea]

This video is about a really cool book I just got from library. . . its all about sketchbooks of various aritst and illustrators

http://vimeo.com/5259158

[CandAlArt]

Rainy, Yes, Danny Gregory & his books are awesome! I think I recommended him on one of the forums hereabouts. Thanks for the link , it was fun to watch.

[poochemio]

Jan thank you for your list. I spent several happy hours going through Ross Stutlers site. Of course I've been hooked on Katherine T's websites and squidoo pages for over a year. Thanks for all the effort you put into those Katherine.
Today I'll check out Jan's travel sketchbook!
No sites to add as this is where I have found most of the cool stuff, or someone has mentioned it already.
Margo

[bluemanjacob]

Rainy and all.
I found that book in the library, also. I was definitely impressed. I think I renewed it so I had it checked out the maximum time.
So, I would add to the long list of recommendations of Danny Greggory's book, "An Illustrated Life"!

[Katherine T]

Originally Posted by poochemio

Jan thank you for your list. I spent several happy hours going through Ross Stutlers site. Of course I've been hooked on Katherine T's websites and squidoo pages for over a year. Thanks for all the effort you put into those Katherine.
Today I'll check out Jan's travel sketchbook!
No sites to add as this is where I have found most of the cool stuff, or someone has mentioned it already.
Margo

Thanks Margo! Did a count recently - I've now got well over a 100 sites dedicated to very specific aspects of art or artists on Squidoo. Where did they all come from?! I daren't tell you how long the "works in progress" list is!

[zebby]

I visit most of those sites listed on the first page regularly, i love them all...and some news ones seen on page 2, will check them all out later, thanks.
Roz...love her stuff..but all the others to.

[Studio-1-F]

There is a new book coming by Cathy Johnson entitled: Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures.

And here is the companion (brand new!) blog: Artists Journal Workshop

It could grow to be a good one!

Jan

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[bgreenaker]

Another good site to go to is:
www.biffybeans.com

Betsy

[the drover's dog]

What an inspiring thread this is. Thanks everyone for the links.

I just found this series of videos about using mixed media in your journals. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journalartista Some great ideas for creative backgrounds. The videos are quite long and sometimes a bit slow, but you can jump them along - You've heard about watching paint dry? Well, you do actually have to watch paint dry, assisted by a heat gun!! I fast forwarded at these points. As a super conservative, not prone to experimenting, I found the site really stimulating. Can't wait to try a few things in my journal. Makes me wish I'd bought a bigger size journal. I'll have to buy another for playing around with mixed media.

Enjoy,

Dale

[catjoe]

Wow! This is my first day browsing here...I love these links. Thanks so much. I had to bookmark this thread to come back to over the next few days. I want to check out each link.