Travel Drawing: Engaging the Spirit of Place

Travel Drawing: Engaging the Spirit of PlaceTravel Drawing is about the ritual of sketching, about how visual journaling processes can help engage and explore place spirit at locales where we sketch. About how ways we draw may deepen our intimacy with and reverence for place. When enacted mindfully, drawing process is occasion for personal introspection, reflection on our inner emotional and spiritual life. And opportunity to feel the joy and satisfaction of crafting well; of managing a process

Travel Drawing is about the ritual of sketching, about how visual journaling processes can help engage and explore place spirit at locales where we sketch. About how ways we draw may deepen our intimacy with and reverence for place. When enacted mindfully, drawing process is occasion for personal introspection, reflection on our inner emotional and spiritual life. And opportunity to feel the joy and satisfaction of crafting well; of managing a process to completion and product; and of fond, vivid memories.

Travel sketching is considered a recreational form of drawing. More entertainment than serious pursuit of high-stakes intentions. It should be fun, light, easy. We look here at some additional values of sketching on the road. When drawing rituals are entered with focus and attention, sketching is much more than recreation, more than just jotting down a few images as souvenirs.