For decades, GJ Gillespie and his wife Teresa enjoyed traveling the world making sketches of sights and people they encountered. After creating hundreds of sketchbooks filled with drawings enhanced by water color wash, they became sketching aficionados. They discovered that slowing down, looking carefully and sketching scenes force a traveler to notice features in the landscape that might otherwise be missed. The finished art-journal becomes a lasting memento of the trip.
"Personally made drawings are better than photographs or post cards and bring back lasting travel memories", says long time artist, attorney and college administrator Teresa Gillespie, partner in the new sketchbook business.
GJ Gillespie founded the boutique art material company, Leda Art Supply of Kirkland, to meet the needs of artists like him seeking the ideal travel journal for drawing. The size and paper quality had to be right. He devoted hundreds of hours contacting stationary suppliers to find the best manufacturers to design his dream sketchbook. The name "Leda" was taken from ancient Greek mythology -- a common theme for Gillespie's art .
According to the myth, long ago the Greek god Jupiter fell in love with a mortal woman named Leda. Since he knew that his divine form would overwhelm Leda, he became a swan to woo her. Their divine union produced a child, Helen of Troy, known as the most beautiful woman in the world. The baby girl was born out of an egg. The Leda story confirms the truth that the pursuit of passion by the artist produces creations of elegant beauty. Similarly Leda Art Supply was born to help art enthusiasts express their aesthetic inspirations.
About Leda Art Supply of Kirkland
Leda Art Supply of Kirkland is dedicated to helping artists make the world a more beautiful place. It provides Sketchbooks for Artists through Amazon.
