This summer has brought a whirlwind of activities, starting with my trip to England in June. I was away for three weeks, visiting London for several days and then teaching back-to-back workshops in the Cotswolds. Since I returned home, I’ve had birthday celebrations, sketching get-togethers, garden parties, and camping trips filling my days, but in […]
Category: Travel
Sketch Monet’s Garden in 2025!
Grab your sketch kit and come away with meto breathtakingly beautiful Giverny! Illustrated Watercolor Journaling in Giverny, France August 30 – September 6, 2025 Register here We’ve all marveled at Impressionist master Claude Monet’s incredible water lily paintings, but how would you like to see his inspiring garden in person? Just imagine strolling down shady […]
Discovering New Places: Vinalhaven
After thirty years of visiting Maine, I finally took the ferry from Rockland to Vinalhaven last summer and spent a day exploring the tiny town of Carver’s Harbor and some of the walking trails that wind throughout the island. Of course, I took my sketchbook along, and I thought you would enjoy seeing the creative […]
Snapshot Travel Itinerary Sketch
Travel journaling involves a substantial time commitment. When I keep a full-fledged illustrated travel journal that includes watercolor sketches plus written daily commentary on where I went and what I saw and did each day, it can be challenging to find enough hours in the day to complete everything during the trip. I usually have […]
A Cute Maine Cottage Sketch
The day after Thanksgiving 2023, my mother and I took off for Florida, leaving Fred with all the leftovers from a huge turkey dinner I had cooked the day before. The two of us were tagging along on a Disney trip that my daughter had been planning for the past year. So, while the grandkids […]
Sketch the Cotswolds in 2024!
Join Leslie Fehling for a week-long small-group painting tour in the Cotswolds, June 10-18, 2024.
Sketch Provence in 2024!
Grab your sketch kit and come away with me to the land of legendary light! Illustrated Watercolor Journaling in Provence September 14-21, 2024 (FULL) Register here Just picture yourself whiling away an afternoon wandering through a quaint French village… or sitting on a sunny hilltop, sketching the panoramic view spread out before you. Sketch from […]
Bonus Travel Palette How-To
All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go…. to Italy…tomorrow! But I wanted to take a few minutes to catch up before I head off on another adventure. As I was packing my art supplies, I came across this empty metal palette (below) that I bought a few years ago, thinking I would fill […]
More Maine Favorites
We’ve been traveling to Maine since my kids were little. We’ve made a lot of great memories along the way, and now a new generation is falling in love with this place that captured my heart all those years ago. One of my grandchildren actually said the other day that he’d rather go to Maine […]
Sketch the Cotswolds in 2024!
Join Leslie Fehling for a week-long small-group painting tour in the Cotswolds, June 10-18, 2024.
