Sketchbook Drawings & True Stories From The Road with James Richards

An award-winning artist, author, urban designer, and former university professor whose work explores real places and real stories around the globe, James Richards is the author of the acclaimed book Freehand Drawing and Discovery: Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers, a popular text at design schools across the U.S. and abroad. Join us as we celebrate and discuss the release of Travel Artist: Sketcbook Drawings and True Stories from the Road, an illustrated travelogue drawn from 20 years of travel to 50 countries, and from the scores of sketchbooks and journals created along the way.

A sketchbook changes travel, from checking off an itinerary checklist and Instagram moments to a journey of discovery: about places, about people, about yourself. Richards’ stories are told through hundreds of full color and black and white travel sketches and essays that cross the globe, from the savannahs of Kenya to the Central Highlands of Vietnam, from the Hemingway haunts of Key West to the customs interrogation room of the Havana airport. The stories and drawings pull the reader into the transformational experience of international travel, and the added richness and creative rush that closer observation and on-location sketching brings to it. The book is a must-have for creatives, for urban sketchers, and for anyone with an explorer’s heart and a creative itch.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

James Richards is an instructor and former Board of Directors member for Urban Sketchers, an international non-profit that promotes on-location sketching around the globe.  His sketches have been published worldwide, appeared in solo and group exhibitions, seen in the National Geographic film Selah and on NBC Nightly News. His solo exhibition "Hemingway's Cuba" was shown in Hemingway’s estate outside Havana (now a national museum) during the 2015 Havana Art Biennial.  Richards is the first American invited to have an exhibition in the Nobel Prize winning author's home.

Jim is a popular online instructor on Skillshare.com, Craftsy and The Great Courses. He travels globally to teach urban sketching workshops for artists, designers and travelers.  He's based in Siesta Key, Florida.

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