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More Solo-Travel Notes (and Two Sketches) from Lisbon

More Solo-Travel Notes (and Two Sketches) from Lisbon

A few more images from my Lisbon hotel AND a peek in my travel sketch journal.

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Sketching, From Paris to Vancouver, Croissants to Chicken Vegetable Soup . . .

Sketching, From Paris to Vancouver, Croissants to Chicken Vegetable Soup . . .

In that Paris Sketchbook workshop, we filled pages with croissants. Back home in Vancouver, I’m picking up the play as I sketch soup ingredients.

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Notes from the Road (but Mostly Photos)

Notes from the Road (but Mostly Photos)

A first attempt to tell you about our walk on the Via Francigena from Lucca to Siena.

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Waving from Orvieto . . .

Waving from Orvieto . . .

We’re having a grand time here in Orvieto (after several days in Rome) — can I show you a few sights? And give you a peek into my Travel Journal pages?

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Photos Becoming Sketches . . . Travel, Memories, Organization . . .

Photos Becoming Sketches . . . Travel, Memories, Organization . . .

Getting ready for some Travel Sketching next month, I’ve been going through old photographs, organizing them. As I do, I’m sketching from a few, warming up for a week-long Sketchbook workshop I’ll be taking. Click through if you’d like a peek.

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