The Art {Journal} of Travel

Travel Vignettes

Art journaling the world as you actually live it.

Enrol at Art is Magic

A journey to a new place and a journey across the journal page are the same pilgrimage — both take you to the centre of your own heart, travelling the outer world and the inner one at once. A travel journal is a container for the conversation you’re having with your adventures, and with your life. It holds the memory long after the trip has folded itself away.

I’ve been keeping travel journals since 2013 — Paris, Venice, London, Thailand, Bali, New York, New Orleans, Norway, and the Blue Mountains on an ordinary ferry day. Not sketchbooks of monuments. Journals of the conversation. Travel Vignettes is where I teach that practice.

Dedication

This workshop is dedicated to my mama, who gave me the travel bug and spent her last days doing what she loved — travelling; to my nana, who also loved to travel; and to my daughter, forever ready to spread her wings.

A six-week mixed media journey

Watercolour, pen and ink, collage, photography, writing, ephemera. Fifty-seven lessons. More than thirteen hours of video. Built across years of real trips and the long returns home between them. This is not an urban sketching class — it’s an art journaling practice, a way of experiencing and metabolising your one wild life, wherever it takes you.

  • 6 weeks ·

  • 57 lessons ·

  • 13+ hours of video

  • lifetime access.

  • art sketchbook image of watercolour palette and brushes with Galia Alena

    Anticipation

    Preparation before you go: journals, supplies, the travel kit, the portable practice you carry in your pocket. How to arrive already looking.

  • many travel art journals and travel sketchbooks laid out by Galia Alena

    The Journey

    The heart of it: catching memories, travel photography and writing, text as design, maps, patterns, stealing like an artist, embracing the wobbly line, ephemera, and demo spreads worked from real trips.

  • Sketchbook spread of Paris trip over map

    Integration

    Bringing it home: reflection, binding, making covers, and where the practice goes next.