Illustrating my Italian Journal

I’m so busy relaxing….enjoying my family’s company, changing chairs from shade to sun to shade, a swim here, a terrace lunch there, a mystery novel to finish (Conor Fitzgerald’s The Dogs of Rome), that I…

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Shades of Antiquity in the Lot

I’m writing this on the train to Paris after a marvellous week learning to sketch and paint en plein air in the Lot region of France with seven other women. Our teachers, the talented, patient,…

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Painting in the Lot

The view from our home for the week, here in a small town in the Lot region of France. We share the house with another couple, and there are three or four other houses in…

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More Portraiture . . .

May I just begin by saying thanks so much for all your supportive and thoughtful comments! Time to just keep on keeping on, I’d say. And despite the potential problems with Anonymous comments — besides…

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Word-less Dreaming — en plein air!

In keeping with Wordless Wednesday’s emphasis on pictures, here’s more than a hint of the last 2013 project I promised to announce . . . . sneaking under the wire, as I am, New Year’s-wise,…

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Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.