Combine your passions for travel and painting by creating beautiful watercolor sketchbooks of the trips you take, capturing the places, people and events you never want to forget.

In Watercolor Journeys, you'll find easy-to-use techniques for developing a sketchbook you'll want to keep and show your family and friends.

Author Richard Schilling, an experienced painter and traveler, teaches you how to paint on the go, in ways that will have you treasuring the finished product as much as the trip. His mix of insightful instruction, step-by-step demos and real-life journal samples will make creating your own travel sketchbook a delightful and enriching experience. You'll learn how to:

• create watercolor sketches that capture the images you see
• choose unique perspectives for your subjects
• add depth and character to your paintings
• capture the movement and energy of the places you visit

Savor your memories in a sketchbook filled with watercolors you created from start to finish.

Publisher's Weekly says, "Part memoir, part catalogue and part painting how-to, Schilling's book shows him turning his eye and his quick hand to Venice shipyards, African hibiscus, Jerusalem churches and Alaskan mountains in colored sketches that are technically adept...it's a personal and generally pleasing look at Schilling's favorite memories, which travelers of an artistic bent may find inspiring as they seek out more intimate records of their adventures than snapshots or gift-shop postcoards afford."

Watercolor Journeys is available from most local booksellers and art stores, or direct from North Light Books. The book retails for $28.99 (CAN $44.99).