Mari's Brittany sketchbook page
Mari sketching in Brittany
Schedule - 2010
My goal for this year is to concentrate on book ideas, sketch and work at my own rhythm with a minimum of responsibilities. So, I have decided to postpone my workshops abroad for 2010. I will resume with all workshops in 2011. There might even be more destinations in the future. I will find out about those exciting possibilities sometime in the middle of the year and will update my website when I have details.
However, this year I will lead three workshops close to “home”. To find out about schedules and destinations, check the “Pacific Northwest” page and let me know if you are interested.
Today, we can travel anywhere in the world and find ourselves in a totally different culture in a few hours, but in this fast paced world, we need to slow down and better see and record what's happening around us.
In recent years, people seem to want to add a new dimension to their travels, making them more meaningful. Artists all over the world publish their travel sketchbooks, but what about those of us who are not 'artists' but also want to record our travels?
After years of leading sketching workshops and seeing people with no art training become so bold and confident, what at first was an intuition, is now a certitude: Sketching is not about being artistic.You do not learn how to sketch, you sketch... and your eyes learn to see.
By observing my participants over the years, I have developed an approach to sketching that is very simple as it only requires trust in oneself and, ultimately, the desire to travel differently.
From "Carnets de Bretagne", 1999