Sketchbook Journaling in the Spotlight (and me!) + GIVEAWAY

Years ago, when I made my first tentative efforts at sketching, I never dreamed that one day I and my artwork would be featured in a national magazine...

Six big, beautiful pages filled with colorful sketches from my travel journals and everyday sketchbooks - I'm so tickled!

There's just something so thrilling about seeing the paintings that I've poured my heart into published in a nice, glossy magazine for all the world to see. (Well, maybe not all the world, but at least the readers of Mary Jane's Farm!)

The article was written by one of my students, Rebekah Teal, whom I first met at Cheap Joe's when she took my "Sketchbook Journaling Comes to Life" workshop in 2016. She writes, "Little did I know that the class would forever change the way I view the beauty around me."

It was during our week together in Boone, NC, that she decided to take the plunge and sign up for my workshop tour to Provence in June 2017. Her experiences during that memorable trip are what inspired the piece in the magazine.

She writes with passion about sketchbook journaling, our trip, and the impact it had on all of us, how we gathered as strangers and left as friends.

I love this sketch that Beka did in St. Remy-de-Provence

And best of all, Beka encourages people to give sketchbook journaling a try. I hope her upbeat article will convince lots of folks to pick up a pencil, grab a sketchbook, and begin capturing their lives on paper without worrying about being good enough or having talent or being an Artist. (Why is that term so often fraught with anxiety?)

Our Provence group - that's Beka in the back row with her arm up in the air, next to me.

If you haven't tried sketchbook journaling yet, I hope you'll pick up a copy of the December/January 2018 issue of Mary Jane's Farm magazine and read Rebekah's article. It's sure to get you excited about joining the fun. Or, sign up for one of my workshops and dive right in. I have lots of them scheduled for next year, both here in the US, and in Sicily and Northern Italy.

Barnes and Noble bookstores carry the magazine, as well as Books-A-Million, or you can order a copy online. I liked the whole magazine so much that I signed up for a subscription. It's filled with a great mix of articles on healthy living, cooking, craft projects, and so much more. It's a welcome change from the magazines I've subscribed to for years and have wearied of, a real breath of fresh air.

I have two copies of 
the Dec./Jan/2018 issue of 
Mary Jane's Farm
to give away,

courtesy of Mary Jane's Farm.

 Leave a comment below for a chance to win one. 

(Drawing will be held Sunday, 11/19/2017)