June 26-27, 2027

International Festival of Travel Sketchbooks

Edmonds, Washington (USA)

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June 26-27, 2027

International Festival of Travel Sketchbooks

Edmonds, Washington (USA)

2026

Swasky (Barcelona) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Kumi Matsukawa (Tokyo) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Fred Lynch (Boston) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Paul Madonna (San Francisco) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Che Lopez (Everett) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Amy Stewart (Portland) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Dan Archer (Hong Kong) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Maria Coryell-Martin (Port Townsend, Wash.) — Sketcher Fest 2026

Alex Hollmann (Seattle)

Alex Hollmann's sketchbooks

Final photo with Guest Artists and Volunteers

Guest Artists

Dan Archer

Hong-Kong

Kumi Matsukawa

Tokyo

Nishant Jain

Vancouver, B.C.

Louis Netter

London

Santi Sallés

Barcelona

Swasky

Barcelona

Elizabeth Alley

Memphis

Judith Dollar

Houston

Fred Lynch

Boston

Paul Madonna

San Francisco

James Richards

Siesta Key, Fla.

Amy Stewart

Portland

David Chamness

Shoreline, Wash.

Maria Coryell-Martin

Port Townsend, Wash.

Eleanor Doughty

Seattle

Alex Hollmann

Seattle

Jorge Che Chacon-Lopez

Everett, Wash.

Andika Murandi

Lynnwood, Wash.

Elizabeth and Mary Beth Person

Everett, Wash.

Michael Sánchez

Pullman, Wash.

Workshops

W20

2 – 5:30 pm

Getting Loose And Bold With Travel Watercolor

Alex Hollmann

W19

2 – 5:30 pm

Elements of Nature

Maria Coryell-Martin

W10

9:30 am – 1 pm

Getting Shady: A Fun Dive into Lines and Values

Andika Murandi

W9

9:30 am – 1 pm

Building a Spiral of Attention

Nishant Jain

W8

9:30 am – 1 pm

Drawing on the Run

Paul Madonna

W7

9:30 am – 1 pm

Capturing Informal Public Life: The Third Place

James Richards

W6

9:30 am – 1 pm

A New Way to Draw: Colored Lines with Energy

Santi Sallés

W5

9 am – 12:30 pm

Be the Artist-in-Residence of Your World

Amy Stewart

W4

9 am – 12:30 pm

Structure & Subtlety: the Split Complementary Palette

Eleanor Doughty

W3

9 am – 12:30 pm

Colorful Monochrome

Fred Lynch

W18

2 – 5:30 pm

Sketching the Spark: From Observation to Studio Painting

Che Lopez

W17

2 – 5:30 pm

Drawing with a Thesis

Louis Netter

W16

2 – 5:30 pm

Finding your Focus: Lessons from Sketching in the Arctic

Elizabeth Alley

W15

1:30 – 5 pm

Quick Sketch Travel Memories

David Chamness

W2

9 am – 12:30 pm

Live-sketching Interviews

Dan Archer

W14

1:30 – 5 pm

Wink and Squint: Building Your Sketch Muscles

Kumi Matsukawa

W13

1:30 – 5 pm

Storytelling on Location: Character, Sequence and Clear Pages

Swasky

W12

1:30 pm – 5 pm

Look, Draw, Think

Michael Sánchez

W11

1:30 – 5 pm

Map Happy: Enriching Your Sketchbook with Maps

Elizabeth Person and Mary Beth Person

W1

9 am – 12:30 pm

Make A Pocket Sketch Journal: Fill It With Your Story

Judith Dollar

Artist Talks

A20

5:15 pm

Building Bridges: Loose Drawings And True Stories

James Richards

A19

4:15 pm

Freedom in Drawing: My Book of Random Sketches

Santi Sallés

A18

3:15 pm

From storyboards to urban sketching: My life as an artist

Kumi Matsukawa

A17

2:30 pm

The BYOB Approach to Travel Sketching

Nishant Jain

A16

1:30 pm

Sip ‘n’ Sketch: Sketching Seattle Coffee Shops

Andika Murandi

A15

1 pm

The Self-Appointed Artist Residency

Amy Stewart

A14

12:30 pm

Then & Now: Life as a Sketcher

Michael Sánchez

A13

Noon

When Drawing and Writing Come Together

Paul Madonna

A12

11:30 am

Watercolor Travel Sketching: How I Learned To Let Go And Speed Up

Alex Hollmann

A11

11 am

From Observation to Story: The Decisions Behind a Sketch

Swasky

A10

10:30 am

The Art of Maps

Elizabeth Person and Mary Beth Person

A8

4:45 pm

When your sketchbook whispers ‘Let’s go!’

Judith Dollar

A7

3:45 pm

The Making of an Art Book

Eleanor Doughty

A6

2:45 pm

Cartooning as Connection and New Ways of Seeing

Dan Archer

A5

1:45 pm

Visiting the Relatives

Fred Lynch

A9

10 am

Travel Sketching Moments

David Chamness

A4

Noon

Topography of the Temporal

Louis Netter

A3

11 am

Sketching in the Arctic

Elizabeth Alley

A2

10 am

Sketch Tour of Cuba

Che Lopez

A1

9 am

Sketching with Purpose

Maria Coryell-Martin

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