Take Your Colouring on Holiday

Photo by C. Laranjeira © OutOfTheLinesPress

What if your creativity packed its own suitcase?

This week is all about creative escapes. Not the kind that require plane tickets (though they’re welcome too), but the kind that live in hammocks, day trips, café corners, shady park benches. The kind of escape where your sketchbook becomes your travel companion, wherever you are.

We believe summer isn’t just a season — it’s a state of mind. It’s the perfect time to loosen up, let your surroundings seep into your creativity, and draw in places where the air smells like sunscreen or sea salt or just-mown grass.

Take your colouring with you. Go outside. Let the breeze flip the pages. Doodle between sips of iced tea. Paint with your feet in a stream. Scribble something quick from the window of a moving train. These little moments become the artwork — the blur, the smudge, the spontaneity. That’s where the real magic lives.

You could try:

• A mini sketching session in a new spot each day (a bus stop, a tree stump, a quiet corner at sunset)

• Creating a “travel page” for each outing — even if it’s just to the corner shop

• Making your own colour kit: a few pencils, your favourite paper, a clip to stop it flapping in the wind

  
  

Don’t wait for the perfect conditions — the right weather, the right time, the right light. Wherever you are, you can jot, scrawl, sketch, and splash on some colours...

And remember: you don’t need to “finish” anything. These moments can be rough and raw, just like the places they come from.

Where will you draw this week? Tag us if you share. Or keep it secret and sacred. Either way, let your creativity breathe the fresh air.