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Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists.

Tofino Sketchbook

🎨 Travel Sketchbook: Tofino

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book Travel Sketchbook: Tofino Read on the web. Hi Reader, I’ve often said that I don’t travel very much, yet here I am again on my second weekend getaway this year. Earlier I spent a few days in Whistler and shared that experience with you, and now another adventure has found its way into my sketchbook. This time I’m opening my travel art sketchbook from a...
Tree of Life

🎨 Drawing the Tree of Life

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book Tree of Life Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's edition of Artzlife. As a hobby artist, I keep coming back to the same subjects, almost as if they are part of my inner landscape. Over time, I’ve realized that I’m not especially drawn to drawing people, faces, or animals and I’m completely fine with that. My heart belongs to nature....
AHAtober Prompts

🎨 AHAtober 2025

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book AHAtober 2025 Read on the web. â € Hi Reader, AHAtober is a special event for meditative artists, inspired by the popular Inktober challenge. This month-long journey is designed to bring calmness and creativity together and to provide a space for artists to explore and express themselves through gentle and reflective prompts. â € Acknowledgement Inktober is...
Artspiration Cards

🎨 Artspiration Cards

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book Create Your Own Artspiration Card Deck Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this edition of Artzlife. This week I'm going to share with you how I started making my Signs and Symbols artspiration card deck. I've always had a great interest in signs, symbols and sigils. And the fact that when you are mark making at a very basic level you've got lines and...
Map Journal Page

🎨 Art Books I'm Reading: Summer 2025

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book Art Books I'm Reading: Summer 2025 Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this edition of Artzlife. This year I've been reading quite a few more books than I usually do. I'm averaging about three books a month. Which is not quite one a week or 52 in a year, but probably I'll aim for 36 books by the end of the year. I couldn't really tell you why this year...
Travel sketchbook page

🎨 Travel Journal: Whistler

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book Travel Journal: Whistler Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's edition of Artzlife. This week I'm going to show you my travel sketchbook for a recent weekend we did away this summer in Whistler, BC, Canada. I only began my travel journal back in 2022 when I started with a weekend in Toronto. From there I did a few little visits here and...
Writing Retreat Friends

🎨 Reflections on A Writing Retreat for Artists

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book Reflections on A Writing Retreat for Artists Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this week's edition of Artzlife. â € Catchup Recently I have been talking about our writing retreat for artists which we organized this summer. If you haven't been following along, you can go back and read: Part 1: What to pack for a writing retreat. Part 2: How to plan a...
Timetable

🎨 ARTZLIFE: How to Plan an Artist's Writing Retreat

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book How to Plan an Artist's Writing Retreat Read on the web. Hi Reader, Introduction I have been working as a hobby artist for about three years now. And along with being a hobby artist, I post some things on social media, not so much to be honest, but I also run a website and a blog at alisonhazelart.com which you may know. Why a Retreat? The idea of a...
sigil map in sketchbook

🎨 Sigils as Art

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book Sigils as Art Read on the web. Hi Reader, Welcome to this edition of Artzlife. And a big thank you to everyone who reached out to me in the past couple of weeks to share their ideas with me. Doodling When I find myself daydreaming, I often reach for a pen and start doing some doodles, maybe on the corner of the page or in a notebook which I happen to have...
Writing Retreat for Artists

🎨 What to Pack for a Writing Retreat for Artists

ARTZLIFE Newsletter Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists. Brought to you by Meditative Art Coloring Book What to Pack for a Writing Retreat for Artists Read on the web Hi Reader, A writing retreat happens when you go away for a weekend of two to three nights, or three to four days to clear your mind and do some writing. It could either be a weekend, mid-week, or a shoulder-week where you're partly in the weekend and partly in the main week, it doesn't really...

Art, nature, travel and sketch journaling inspiration for hobby artists.