In Draw Your Adventures, artist and illustrator Samantha Dion Baker invites you to savour moments and capture memories using your eyes, your creativity, and a few art-making tools. With as little as a sketchbook and some pens, begin a new art practice or enliven an existing one with inspiration from the prompts, challenges, examples, and scavenger hunts that populate these pages.
Your adventures are worth recording, whether they take you as close as your own kitchen or across the globe. Baker encourages you to see the world through an explorer's lens and provides ideas to guide you through adventures you can have during the everyday, on staycations, and over grand trips.
- Paint your own postcards to send when abroad.
- Add pockets to your sketchbook for storing mementos.
- Create abstract pieces featuring the colours of the clothes you dug up in a closet cleanout.
- Make a series of paintings of family and friends' front doors.
- Document what you see around you on plane, train, boat, and road trips.
Draw Your Adventures is the perfect size to carry with you on your excursions. Stunning visual examples from Baker's own work accompany the prompts, making this the perfect book to help inspire your own artmaking practice.
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A beautifully illustrated and practical guide to documenting life through art, Draw Your Adventures encourages readers to celebrate everyday moments and global travels alike. With creative prompts, scavenger hunts and inspiring examples from Baker’s own sketchbooks, this book invites both beginners and experienced artists to see the world afresh.
" - Artists & Illustrators magazine
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Sometimes inspiration comes at you unannounced, other times you have to search for it. This new book offers help and hope when ideas are staying resolutely hidden and encourage you to just observe the world around you. Draw Your Adventures wears its heart on its sleeve. Samantha Dion Baker finds inspiration in busy streets, railway stations, cafés, landscapes and interiors. This is more than just flexing your muscles and builds up to a worthwhile travel journal that beats a thousand photographs. If travel is following your nose, this is about following your eyes, seeing, interpreting and recording.
" - The Artist magazine
