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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Winter Cocooning and Sketching . . .

We’re in Vancouver now, since Friday, a rather whirlwind weekend of lunch with my sister, dinner with my daughter’s family, a long, long run, a night at the opera, a visit to my mother-in-law today…

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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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Paris Preparations, Anticipations, Memories . . .

Although this is, obviously, a post on Paris travels, and it includes references to my history with/in the city, it’s not the one I referred to in my last post. The promised post to come…

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