England & Netherlands August 2024
I can't believe its been almost a month, since we returned from our magic trip to England and the Netherlands. Not quite 4 weeks of adventures, beer drinking, site seeing, laughing, endless walking and gallery after gallery ( Not that i'm complaining ) now feels like a distance memory. A truly unforgettable journey, one which of course I captured as creatively as I could.
The good old travel sketchbook. Yup I'm that person ( if you didn't guess already ) that takes art supplies everywhere. I was more stressed about what I could fit into my pencil case that worried about what clothes to pack. What colour pens? do I bother with the watercolours? gah what size book? Classic creative problems. In the end my trusty one-of-a-kind Tish Willo pencil case held all the magic I needed to create my book.
A lucky dip from the pen jar, a few lead pencils, couple of stencils and a travel kit full of water colours and I was good to go. Not forgetting the travel printer. We had so much fun printing straight from our phones to document in the journal. The book and the daily practice of creating kept me grounded while disrupted from my every day routine and was a great companian to capture ideas, patterns and colours as they flitted by us.
Page after page where filled with numbers, colours, lines, marks, sketches, tickets, photos while sitting at pubs, late nights in hotel rooms and of course the never ending hours waiting at airports. I was even lucky enough to spend a little time in the beautiful spring gardens of the Rijks Museum Amsterdam drawing away to my hearts content. Country pubs with beer gardens full of greenery and bursting with flowers all to our selves in the Cotswolds. To sketch book chats with fellow creatives in Easton, while over a pint at the local pub. Happy Happy Days.
The best art adventure of the trip, was the tiny packets of free art I left along the way. Before I left I created and packaged up tiny artworks, which where to be hidden in places I loved, on shelves that look pretty, in corners of walls and well anywhere and everywhere I wanted. Free art to brighten someones day.
The absolute joy of receiving a message that someone had found one and that it had turned their bad day around, bought me to tears. You've heard me say it before and I'll say it again, art really does matter. A few new followers on the socials to share their finds and say thanks, meant everything. So much so I'll be doing this again - so Perth look out!
To share and gift is one of my favourite things, so those special people along who I also left with art - Thank you for making the trip the trip that it was. The barman, the tattooist, the fellow creatives, The old friend and the hotel owner Thank you.
But a final thank you to you DB, Thank you waiting endlessly while I take photos of strange patters, constantly whinge about my sore legs, messing up the table at the pub with my pens and for the endless galleries you walked with me in. Thank you DB x Now its time to paint and bring all the holiday inspiration to life on the canvas.
Stay tuned.
Peace and Art Tish x
P.S there are couple of reels over on the instagram which document the book in full and the travel supplies also - Check them out and leave some love xx
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