Turning your Sketchbook Journal into a Compelling Travelogue

Christina Wald is a designer, illustrator and educator passionate about travel and storytelling. She is the author of “Sketching Here & Everywhere: My Sketching Obsession,” a combination of personal anecdotes and tips from years of teaching. In 2023, she published a travelogue about her artist residency at Château d’Orquevaux, followed by a second in Romania in 2025. She is currently working on one about her experience traveling in Argentina last fall. Wald founded the Cincinnati chapter of Urban Sketchers in 2017 and has taught illustration and narrative storytelling at Northern Kentucky University and the Art Academy for more than a decade.