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Leave Your Camera Behind |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Christine Ridout |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 1,777 Words, 10,165 Characters |
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Photographs preserve visual images of your travels. When you get home, you label them, organize them, and put them into albums, often giving them titles like "Bill's and My Anniversary Trip to Egypt, June 1998." The albums are treasures you periodically take from their shelves, share with friends, and reminisce about over a cup of tea.
But imagine a different kind of picture album: a book of watercolor sketches you did on the spot. A sketchbook, recording your impressions, capturing people and places, sights and sounds, preserving your memories. An original piece of artwork bound in a single volume.
Sketchbooking is an art anyone can learn and use to preserve images of his travels. The concept was originated by Barbara Stecher, a talented artist who teaches the skill at the De Co...
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...ed everything she wanted to say. Note that she did not sketch the buildings or the street because they were not important to her.
When you're home, you'll have a book of memories. Periodically, you'll take it off the shelf, blow off the dust, and relive your trip. As the memories come alive, you will be pleased to have your sketchbook--which is also a work of art. What could be better?
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