My Mexico Blog
will be linked here
sometime in November.
Check back.
Schedule - 2009
I am off to new adventures. My husband and I will be working in a small mountain school in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Our friends, Paco and Alejandra, have asked us to be involved in their school using sketchbooks as a tool in digital storytelling. If you would like to follow our adventures, we will have a blog linked to this webpage sometime in November.
I will resume my sketching workshops in the Fall of 2009. If you are interested, please send me a registration form, but wait until mid June to send your deposit check.
In the meanwhile, keep in touch and happy sketching!
Mari's Brittany sketchbook page
Mari sketching in Brittany
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