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  • Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Watercolor a Palm Springs Sunset

    Follow along with this process video and learn how to watercolor a Palm Springs inspired sunset with palm trees in silhouette. Here is the final work! For more details about this Creative Wanderlust Prompt and more, see: Add Creativity to Your Everyday and Creative Wanderlust Prompts: Palm Springs

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    Wanderlust Bookclub: Euphoria by Lily King (artwork by Wanderlust Designer)

    Wanderlust Bookclub: Travel to the Jungles of New Guinea in Lily King’s Euphoria

    January 21, 2016

    Let’s Go to Hawaii and Paint Tropical Fish

    March 15, 2022

    Creative Wanderlust Story: Poolside Gossip – Flash Fiction Inspired by Slim Aarons’s Iconic 1970s Photograph

    January 16, 2022
  • Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Palm Springs

    It’s time for a little Southern California, mid-century modern, wanderlust adventure this week with our Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Palm Springs! Palm Springs is a desert resort area in California’s Colorado Desert, a 7 million acre area of land that is part of the Sonoran Desert. The landscape is arid and brown like many deserts, yet unique as it is surrounded on three sides by towering mountain ranges: Little San Bernardino Mountains to the north, the Santa Rosa Mountains on the south, and the San Jacinto Mountains to the west. San Jacinto Peak rises 3,302 m or 10,834 ft and is often covered in snow in the winter. Palm Springs is also…

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    Over 25 Fonts Inspired by Paris by Wanderlust Designer

    Type+Place: Over 25 Fonts Inspired by Paris

    September 27, 2013

    Creative Wanderlust Community Open House #1 – December 2, 2021

    November 8, 2021

    Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Portland, Oregon

    June 9, 2022
  • Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Collage a Globe

    Learn how to create a creative collage of a globe by following along with this process video. Use the quote in this video or write your own quote how you feel about the world! For more details about this Creative Wanderlust Prompt and more, see: Add Creativity to Your Everyday and Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Globe

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    Portland Art Party: Design a Portland Food Truck

    June 13, 2022

    Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Portland, Oregon

    June 9, 2022

    Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Palm Springs

    January 9, 2022
  • Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Paint Some Colorful Globes

    Follow along below to learn how to paint some impressionistic, watercolor globes. Use any colors you’d like- be experimental. Make the world as colorful as you’d like! For more details about this Creative Wanderlust Prompt and more, see: Add Creativity to Your Everyday and Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Globe

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    15 Minute Art Lesson: Paint a Ski Mountain

    February 22, 2022
    Wanderlust Bookclub: A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain

    Wanderlust Bookclub: A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain

    December 21, 2016
    A Surprise Japanese Garden in Bustling Tokyo (by Wanderlust Designer)

    On Location: Sketching a Serene Spot in the Middle of Bustling Tokyo

    November 6, 2014
  • Creative Wanderlust Prompts: Add Creativity to Your Everyday

    I’ve been wanting to provide inspiration through creative prompts for a long while now – for not only myself, but also the creative, wanderlust fueled community around me! I am always inspired by artsy prompts, writing prompts, 100 day projects, etc., but haven’t found a prompt list to satisfy my endless curiosity for exploring not only the world (hello, wanderlust!) but also varied creative mediums! So, in my desire to try new things and strengthen our creative community, I thought it would be fun to publish a weekly Creative Wanderlust Prompt list. Each list will provide inspiration for people like you and me to explore a wanderlust topic through multiple creative…

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    Art School: How to Draw a Mask

    March 5, 2019
    Chakalaka from South Africa Food Illustration by Betsy Beier, Wanderlust Designer

    Culture – Food: Chakalaka from South Africa

    May 17, 2017
    Travel Journal Spread from An Afternoon Adventure: Woodside, CA by Betsy Beier

    Travel Journal: An Afternoon in Woodside, CA

    February 6, 2019
  • Creative Prompt: Draw and Tell the Stories of Your Holiday Ornaments and Decorations

    Ever since I was a little girl, my mom has kept a wonderful tradition of giving my siblings and I an ornament every year. Typically the ornaments are from a trip my parents have been on or memory from that year. Some of the ornaments were even ones she and I made together (i.e., salt dough ornament in the below photo.) Once we were out on our own, my mom gave us all our ornaments so we could decorate our own tree. That first tree I had in my tiny studio apartment in San Francisco was filled with a lifetime of memories. It was magical!  I knew at that moment I would carry on this…

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    Camping Adventure Collection and Illustrations by Wanderlust Designer

    Wanderlust Patterns: Camping Adventure

    August 24, 2017

    At Home Creative Adventure: 4 Objects, 1 Color

    March 16, 2020

    Let’s Build a Creative Community

    March 30, 2022
  • Creative Wanderlust Adventure: Sign Poetry

    Beware of a one way road.Keep pushing your belief,Worldwide…To yield an amazingOdyssey On my walk the other day I started taking pictures of signs I saw. Anything from things written on the road, to signs in peoples’ yards. My goal… to write some sign poetry! The walk soon became an adventure. I was definitely on a word hunt. What words would hold a lot of meaning? What words could be used in different contexts to relay different things? What words could be truncated? In the end, I had roughly 20 photos and I was ready to don my poetry cap and start writing. Here are two sign poems I created,…

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    Creative Wanderlust Prompt: GREEN

    March 15, 2022

    The Benefits of Keeping a Travel Journal and Taking Your Art on the Go

    January 25, 2019
    April Packing List: Tulips in Holland by Wanderlust Designer

    On Location: April Packing List – Tip Toe Through the Tulips in Holland and Free April 2017 Wallpaper

    April 4, 2017
  • Creative Wanderlust Adventure: Finding Inspiration in a Recent Read – Crying in H Mart

    I just finished Michelle Zauner’s book Crying in H Mart for my bookclub and although the book had a lot of sadness, as the main character processed the grief of losing her mother, I couldn’t help but be highly intrigued by the constant Korean food references that threaded throughout the book. Since H Mart grocery story is prominently featured in the title, I was also inspired to experience it for myself! Although I have tried a few Korean dishes (I do love bibimbap) I must admit, I’m pretty naive to all the dishes and foods I would find. Near me there are actually 3 H Marts relatively close by, so…

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    Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Amusement Park

    March 30, 2022

    Finding Inspiration: Tips for Using Pinterest Effectively

    March 9, 2019

    Discovering What Truly Lights You Up

    June 9, 2022
  • Creative Journal Prompt: 4th of July Collection

    For many Americans, the 4th of July holiday usually entails some type of gathering with family and friends, some type of food and of course, fireworks. I am definitely no different than most Americans! For decades, I have enjoyed the fourth up in my favorite spot, Lake Tahoe, with my whole family. We always spend the day out in the sun, swimming in the lake (and much warmer pool,) and playing games in and out of the water. As the sun begins to set, the BBQ is lit and our long, loud family dinner (always with corn on the cob) begins. We get so engrossed in conversation, that many times…

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    Creative Wanderlust Prompt: Portland, Oregon

    June 9, 2022
    It's a Colorful World - November Palette

    It’s a Colorful World – November Palette

    November 2, 2018
    Bucket List Map of the World by Betsy Beier, Wanderlust Designer

    On Location: Dream Trips – Bucket List World Map

    May 17, 2017
  • Creative Journal Prompt: Ice Cream Flavors of the Season

    One of my favorite things to do when I walk into an ice cream shop is to peruse all the different flavors. Although I usually go for the same kinds every time (hello cookie dough, cookie crumbs, caramel & coffee), I just love seeing all the different concoctions. I mean, how fun would it be to be an ice cream flavor designer? I’m kicking off my summer, with a super fun prompt to get you inspired, but if you’d like, you could do this prompt at any time of year, I mean, who wouldn’t want to hear about your spooky Halloween ice creams, or your romantic Valentine ice cream assortment?…

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    Creative Wanderlust Adventure: Finding Stories Everywhere

    November 1, 2021
    Winding through Texas Hill Country by Wanderlust Designer

    On Location: Road Trip – Winding Through Texas Hill Country

    October 21, 2016

    My Favorite Art Supplies

    June 3, 2020
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