Well, I had a
very unexpected opportunity to travel to Australia this summer with students--and so, of course, I've been in Australia!
However, I haven't forgotten about you. I tried, actually, posting some ideas for sketching while I was in Sydney, but (alas), ran out of time on my internet cafe card.
I did a lot of sketching while I was abroad, and I hope you've been sketching, too! Here are some ideas to jump-start the ol' brain:
- Dream Travel Destination
- Let a family member pick your subject matter
- Go to a thrift store/antique store/yard sale and get a couple of old photos. Paste into sketchbook and create a drawing narrative around those images.
- Junk food with wrapper (when finished eating said junk food, glue the wrapper in your book!)
- Zoom in on an object until it is abstracted
- Create a magazine mosaic
- Summer in the City
- Solitude
- Love
- War
- Draw to your current favorite song
- Draw on napkins at a restaurant and then glue your drawings in your book
- Go to a gallery and sit on a bench, drawing from inspiration
- Any time you see something interesting in magazines, tear it out and glue it in!
- Doodle! Doodle! Doodle!
If you have been sketching, send me a photograph and I'll post it on the blog!
Enjoy yourselves.
Wow. Summer rocked! 
