Read the picture.
Begin with the largest shape. Let a path, a reflection or a repeated colour lead you towards a smaller detail. There is no hidden object you have to find.
AN ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF SIX SWEET PLACES
A sweeter way
to wander.
Beyond the peppermint cliffs, a small journey is waiting. Bring a little curiosity. Leave the ordinary map at home.
Peppermint Headland
A first glimpse of the coast
Six imaginary landmarksWatercolour / gouache / a little wonderVolume one · en-AU
WELCOME TO THE CANDY COAST
Some places are better
found with your eyes.
Lusaventor is a fieldbook for an imagined coast: striped cliffs, biscuit crossings and harbours made from jelly. Follow the pictures, choose a few stops and collect a drawing idea at each one.
02A warm crossing
Caramel Falls.
Here, the route becomes a ribbon. Caramel tumbles over crumbly biscuit ledges and slips beneath a bridge made from whole golden biscuits. A forgotten straw hat rests in the foreground, just far enough from the edge.
Try this: Make one flowing line for the falls, then surround it with short broken marks. Keep the water and the shore visibly different.
03Under the lolly canopy
Swirlwood Trail.
The lollies are much too large, which is exactly how the trail likes them. Their striped stems lean over the path, while strawberries and lime jelly stones crowd the edges. A small orange pennant keeps the route from disappearing into all that colour.
Try this: Choose a large foreground spiral and three smaller ones behind it. Draw the spaces between them before you draw the sweets.
MAKE THE JOURNEY YOURS
Four stops.
Any direction.
Choose up to four landmarks. Reorder them, allow a little drawing time and keep the result as your own pocket fieldbook.
AN ILLUSTRATED SCHEME / NOT TO SCALE / ALL PLACES ARE FICTIONAL
Choose a first stop. Select it again to remove it.
YOUR SMALL EXPEDITION
A fieldbook of your own.
A headland, a hollow, a bright little harbour. Which one will you notice first?
Suggested drawing-session time, not a travel estimate.
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Your choices stay in this page. Download a text copy before leaving if you want to keep them.
A good detour gives
you something
to notice.
Make a small mark.
The prompts are invitations to sketch, not drawing lessons with a correct answer. A few lines or two colours can be enough to remember what caught your eye.
04Where the wafer boats gather
Jelly Harbour.
A lighthouse made from orange jelly is a useful landmark in an invented harbour. The wafer boats gather below it, their sweet-wrapper sails folded into different triangles. Along the quay, raspberry blocks hold the market just above the water.
Try this: Draw a harbour using three large shapes and a winding gap between them. The gap is the water; give it as much attention as the buildings.
05The day’s last pageStay for
Stay for
the lanterns.
By evening, the parcels have become steps and the bonbons have become lanterns. Warm windows light the sweet shop above the quay. A wafer boat waits in the darker water, where each small lamp stretches into a long reflection.
THE QUIETEST STOP
A little room
inside the colour.
The smallest stop on the route is also the most enclosed. Raspberry walls and blackberry clusters lean around a mint-blue pool. Above it, a gap in the canopy admits a little daylight and a distant glimpse of one pink spiral lolly.
Try this: Fill the edges of a small sketch with rounded berry shapes. Leave a quiet pool in the middle and connect it to the foreground with five simple discs.
FROM THE TRAVELLER’S MARGIN
Pack these three ideas.
01 / A LINE
Let it wander.
Draw a path without lifting your pencil. Allow it to bend around a sweet, cross a pool or disappear behind a cliff. The line can decide where the next thing belongs.
02 / A PALETTE
Keep one colour close.
Repeat a small warm colour through a cool scene, or the other way around. It can connect distant details without making everything match.
03 / A PAUSE
Leave a little space.
A quiet piece of water or sky makes the crowded parts easier to enjoy. You do not need to fill every corner for a picture to feel complete.
BEFORE YOU SET OFF
A few useful
field notes.
Can I visit or book these places?
No. Every landmark is part of an illustrated fictional world. The map is schematic and offers no real travel directions, accommodation or booking service.
What does the route planner calculate?
It orders your chosen stops and adds the drawing time you select. Optional three-minute pauses are added between stops. These are suggestions for a creative session, not walking or sailing times.
Will my fieldbook be saved?
It stays in the current page until you leave or refresh. Use “Keep my fieldbook” to download a text copy with your stops, prompts, title and notes. Those choices are not uploaded.
Do I need any drawing experience?
No. You can use the prompts, write a few observations or simply enjoy the scenes. There is no score, account, purchase or prize.
A NOTE FROM YOUR SIDE OF THE MAP