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Travel Sketching, Sketchbook Journals, Sketching Instruction & Inspiration

Interested in travel sketching, sketchbooks, and other illustrated journals?

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If you're a sketchbook junkie you've come to the right place!

Trumpetvine Travels is a resource for the study and appreciation of personal sketching to enhance our travel logs, illustrated diaries, nature journals, art projects, sketchblogs and more.

Learning to Sketch?

How I Sketch: Part One, Materials

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What's in my sketching kit? Pens, paint, paper: favorite materials and how I use them.
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How I Sketch: Part Two, Demonstration

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Creating a sketch start to finish: A step by step demo.
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SketchBlog

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More Recent Highlights

In the Neighborhood   June 18th, 2008

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I made the first sketch while sitting in my parked car listening …  
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Restaurant Sketching   June 15th, 2008

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Sketching in restaurants can be a real challenge: people move around a lot, food …  
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In Search of Bubbles   April 13th, 2008

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…recently spent a day in Napa sketching and visiting champagne wineries …  
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SketchCrawl 17: Chinatown, S.F.   January 25th, 2008

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Saturday was the worldwide SketchCrawl 17 event, and over sixty of us gathered in the Chinatown …  
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