![]() If your journal is spiral bound, just pull out a page. He is a talented painter, muralist and animator but also a deep and gentle man who will inspire you with the beauty he sees in all parts of the world.You’ll need a sheet from your journal to make the front of the folder pocket. Prashant splits his life between Toronto and balmy India. Capturing the essence and mood is more important for me than the reality. It’s only a page in your life, if you don’t like it, turn it over.ĥ. What are your top 5 tips for creating a travel journal?ģ. These have certainly helped me in my art. What are some of the best or most insightful lessons your students have responded to that you are willing to share with us?ģ P’s are important to me. It can be very simple at first, that’s how I started, and over time one will have a library of travel journals that has chronicled your life. Just start keeping a journal, and draw every day. I usually spend up to an hour depending on the time of day, or the amount of detail I want to spend on my drawing.Īny prompts for readers who need help sparking an idea for their travel journals? I like using watercolors because it is a portable medium, it dries quickly, and it all fits in my bag. Sometimes one has to work quickly if the light is changing fast, or if the weather changes. I usually start with drawing, and if there’s time then I color it in. ![]() Under the shade, or a pleasant perch for you and your materials. Find a spot that you would want to spend some time in. It could be a glass of wine, or an ancient monument. It all depends on what you want to journal. Can you walk us through a typical travel-journaling session (where to be or not to be, how to start, what materials to use, how long to do it…)? If you practice it every day, your skills are bound to improve. How can travel journals help artists improve their skills? It’s usually memories that I want to remember that go into my journal, and things I want to forget can be left out! Penning down my first impressions of a place is important for me, because if I revisit the place, I always have that first memory, which I could easily have forgotten otherwise. People whom I meet along the way, beautiful buildings and architecture, nature or the seasons that affect the mood of the space. What all goes into travel journals - and what does not?Īll sorts of things go into my travel journals. But journaling allows for us to spend a little more time to soak in and meditate on those moments. While travelling, many of such encounters are little snapshots that one can easily forget. It forces me to reflect and observe on experiences that could be fleeting. Journaling seems to be a contemplative act for me. How do traveling and journaling work together, and why might artists keep travel journals? I think the seminar will be a conversation between several of us and the audience on how travels affect our lives and how documenting these journeys through our sketchbooks are memoirs of our life. Much like any form of visual journal keeping, travel journals capture the essence of that space and time. ![]() Prashant, can you give a brief overview of what SketchKon attendees will learn during your panel discussion on travel journaling? Sketchbooks can be a very powerful medium to share these stories with the rest of the world.” We all have stories and it is through these stories that we pass on our memories, ideas, thoughts and actions to others. They are time travelling devices that take me back exactly to that space and time when I had made that mark on that page. Says Prashant: “My sketchbooks are memory keepers. ![]() Needless to say he is the SketchKon artist and instructor we went to for an insider’s look on travel journals for artists and what kind of creativity and inspiration can come out of such a (possibly lifelong) pursuit.Īlso enjoy exploring the bounds of your sketchbook with techniques and inspiration from the Sketching Collection, available now. Illustrator, muralist, animator and author Prashant Miranda has documented his life during the last 25 years in over 300 sketchbooks. Inspirations and Ideas from Artist Prashant Miranda
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