In today’s video, I share:
how I added paper treasures which I collected in an envelop during my travels to Portugal
how I drew thumbnails of my favourite sketches from the sketchbook to help me decide which one would make the cover
a Timelapse of my painting the cover (I chose the Lisbon tiles)
a gentle flip through of the finished version of my Portugal travel sketchbook
I also refer back to this post in which I shared my journey to Portugal, some of my visual journaling retreat which happened there and the journey back. If you haven’t seen it, I’d start there!!
The materials I loved collecting for this project include:
postcards
restaurant business cards
artisanal local wool shop label
local sweetie wrapper
strawberry napkin
hotel, factory and museum leaflets
coasters
rug factory fabric labels
local chocolate wrappers
train tickets
banana sticker on a drawn banana
salad box sticker
peeled off ginger beer and sparkling water bottle labels
A Vida Portuguesa shop stickers
pottery shop stickers
handwritten cards addressed to me from retreat participants
receipts
precious handwritten notes
interesting typography on cardboard packaging
sugar paper bags
tea bags packaging
coffee roasters leaflet
handwritten note on back of receipts “Pastel Nata”
old paper ephemera glued as a base to draw/paint on
a word search I did while travelling
cute post-it notes
the cover of the visual journaling retreat booklet which I designed
antique paper envelopes
