My best holiday souvenirs are things we find in nature.
When I am on holidays I most often bring back something I pick up from the ground. I will find a beautiful flower or I will pick up shells. In a metropolitan city, I will look for a stone. When I think about it I have no idea when or why I started doing this. Probably from childhood when you have ideas like a clover or a stone can bring you luck.
Anyway, here is an idea I have been doing in my sketchbook for some time now. I find my souvenirs for inspiration for drawings. The nice thing about it is that I start to remember things. Photos can’t compete with these treasures that I have collected from all over the world. I remember different things liken the smell, temperature humidity what I was thinking about at the time, and so on. Sometimes treasures like this are given to me by a friend. It is such a lovely gift and to me the are the very best souvenirs.
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- Watercolors St.Petersburg
- Moleskine Watercolour Album
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Great idea to put the souvenirs in context!
I am so glad you enjoying the posts, thank you for your kind comments and for peaking in!
Amazingly, sometimes it’s the small items documented in ones sketchbook that bring meaningful past events to memory. Lovely sketches.
Yes it is, and that makes it more special in my opinion. Thank you for your kind comment and for peaking in!
So beautiful Magny great post! I see a souvenir from Italy my native country! I love your video! Much love to you!
Thank you! I love Italy it is a great country.
Thanks <3
Thank you I appreciate it a lot! I love Italy it is a great country. I hope to go back some day to get some sun and some pizza…..
Yes me too! Cause life events I haven’t been there in a long time…
Lovely, lovely,lovely!! Beautiful work and I am juuuust a little envious of your sea treasures. So happy your blog is back to good order! xo Johanna
Thank you so much for the nice words. It has taken me years to collect them, but it’s worth it. It was never my intention to make a collection but, I am totally glad I did. you can start collecting now 🙂 ?
If only the sea was closer ;O) but a have a few from vacations!
Good post! I too have enjoyed keeping “vacation sketchbooks” and have found them invaluable as a resource for my fine art – as well as just for those times when my sweetie and I are wondering “when was on our holiday that we saw the big ships…” Thanks for sharing!