Jocelyn Curry

I have kept travel sketchbooks since the summer after I turned 12. That
summer, to help stave off homesickness, I kept my first little journal
while traveling with our French neighbors from Casablanca to their
villa near Carcasonne in southern France. Recording my thoughts and the
passing sights in a tiny spiral notebook gave me a feeling of
connectedness I needed then, as a jeunne fille traveling without my family. I continue to keep sketchbooks when I travel today. 

A few years ago it dawned on me that my "sketchbook style" of drawing
and painting might be of interest to my clients as an expressive
illustration style. Because of its spontaneous quality, it has an
appeal. Here I am posting two pages from my recent sketchbooks made
while traveling in China (click on the photos for large versions of the
pages). Below them you will see a greeting card designed for Papyrus,
where the handwriting is much more legible because I was doing it in my
studio and not while bumping along the roads on a tour bus or swaying on the deck of a river boat!


 

These pages feature the many types of small boats seen on the rivers of China and passing images from the farmlands. The Papyrus card below features a series of romantic images applied to a Valentine's Day card. A photo of the buyer's choice is to be placed in the cut-out window.