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Travel Journalling

How to keep a travel journal

sharonbAug 22, 2025Aug 22, 20252 Comments on How to keep a travel journal
Many people start a travel journal with good intentions but after a few days because they over stimulated, too busy,...
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Travel Journalling

Why you need to Keep a Travel Journal

sharonbAug 19, 2025Aug 22, 20252 Comments on Why you need to Keep a Travel Journal
In this digital age of instant photos taken on smartphones, that are immediately shared on social media the idea of...
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Urban Sketching

Sketching a Muttaburrasaurus at the National Museum of Australia

sharonbAug 10, 2025Aug 10, 2025
There was a great turn out at the National Museum of Australia for the monthly Canberra Urban Sketchers group today....
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Art, Art History and TheoryResources online

Werner’s nomenclature of colours

sharonbAug 8, 2025Aug 8, 2025
German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner developed a detailed nomenclature – or naming system – colour guide. It was published in...
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Great Wave off Kanagawa by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai
Art, Art History and TheorySketchingTechniques and Tutorials

Free drawing lessons from the Great Master Hokusai

sharonbAug 5, 2025Aug 5, 2025
Katsushika Hokusai is well known for his iconic Great Wave off Kanagawa. He was a master in the true sense...
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Resources online

Over a million images from the British Library are free in the public domain

sharonbAug 4, 2025Aug 4, 2025
Over the last few years the British Library, has digitised books, manuscripts, and all manner of printed media from their...
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Journaling

How to write a Journal: Starting and Maintaining a Journaling Practice

sharonbAug 2, 2025Aug 2, 20251 Comment on How to write a Journal: Starting and Maintaining a Journaling Practice
Just about every self-development/mental health book and blog tells people to keep a journal, but not necessarily how to keep...
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Egon Schiele Self Portrait
Art, Art History and Theory

The Egon Schiele sketch that rocked me to the core

sharonbAug 1, 2025Aug 1, 2025
When Austrian painter Egon Schiele died at 28, he left behind 3,000 drawings and more than 300 paintings. Schiele has...
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Journaling

Why Write a Journal in our Digital Age

sharonbJul 27, 2025Jul 27, 2025
In a world where everything seems beep, chime and notify you of every event and little thing, where it feels...
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Recent Comments

  1. sharonb on How to keep a travel journal

    HI Nadine - I am pleased the article was useful to you. If you have started journals before - and…

  2. Nadine on How to keep a travel journal

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! I needed your encouragement….not only for travel, but for every day. My dad kept…

  3. sharonb on Why you need to Keep a Travel Journal

    Thanks Lene On the camino particularly I journal and sketch because so much seems to happen in a day where…

  4. Lene on Why you need to Keep a Travel Journal

    Thank you for sharing your thoughts on travel journalling. I am sitting here wishing I had started that years ago.…

  5. sharonb on Why Sharon’s Sketchy Stuff

    Cala yes I have been journaling for over 35 years and see a different 'me' every decade it seems!

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