January 11, 2024

Daily Art Practice with April Wu

Get ready for the year ahead with some daily journaling inspiration!

By The Art Toolkit Team

An open sketchbook and paint palette with a watercolor drawing of an aerial view of a winding mountain road and text beneath.

This is a live recording from our demo with artist April Wu from January 10th, 2024. In this demo, April shared her daily journaling process with us! In the spirit of the New Year, we reflected on and reviewed April’s year of sketching and saw what kinds of things she documented and kept a record of in her TRAVELER’S Notebook and Hobonichi Techo. We started 2023 with a Sketchbook Kaigi live demo with April and are overjoyed to round out the year with a look back at what she got up to in 2023!

Bring your own sketching supplies and follow along for some doodling and painting to inspire the year ahead!

An open sketchbook with notes and drawings, with sketching supplies, a TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK and closed pocket art toolkits on a pink desk.
April’s sketchbook and Pocket Palettes.
A person sits at a table sketching, with an iced coffee, pencil case, and snacks.
April journals while enjoying an iced coffee.

About April

April Wu is a stationery enthusiast, urban sketcher, and host of The Stationary Cafe in Seattle, Washington. She enjoys capturing her daily life through journaling and sketches in colorful ways. Check out April’s Instagram page to keep up with the art she shares and the supplies she enjoys.

All images courtesy of April.
An artist sites on a rock, dipping a paintbrush in a Pocket Palette.

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