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Palladian Odyssey 2020 Veneto Tours now available

July 22, 2019 | 4 Comments
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Just a quick post to let you know that we have opened up signup for our 2020 Palladian Odyssey Tours. I’m very excited that we are offering these tours again for the fourth year in a row. There are no words to describe how much I love teaching these workshops! It’s so special being a...

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Europe19: A quick visit to Barcelona

July 17, 2019 | 4 Comments
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After Paris I had a few nights in Barcelona, another favourite city of mine. It’s such an incredible place and I spent 2 weeks there in 2013 around the Urban Sketchers Symposium, so not only do I know it well, but I have sketched the city a lot as well. This visit was about returning...

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Europe19: Four nights in Paris

July 15, 2019 | 12 Comments
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Most of this trip has been ‘work’ with the occasional day off for sketching, but for the last two weeks, I’ve been mainly on vacation with some work fitted in around my sketching. So first up I visited Paris for 4 nights. It’s hard to believe that its been 10 years since I was last...

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Sketch Meet in Gouda, Netherlands

July 13, 2019 | 8 Comments
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I’m in Gouda, Netherlands, for a few days and thought it would be fun to organise a casual sketch meet while I’m here in this beautiful town. So here are the details: Meet in front of the Town Hall (Gouda Stadhuis) at 2pm and then back again at 5pm to share our sketches. We can...

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Europe19: The Isle of Lewis and Harris

July 6, 2019 | 8 Comments
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It’s always a big highlight of my European trip to spend some time with family and (church) friends on the Isle of Lewis and this year I had over two weeks. I spent most of my days working in a lovely AirBnB house and then in the afternoon I would hang out with my sister...

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Europe19: My 30x30 direct watercolour sketches

July 1, 2019 | 6 Comments
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With all my teaching, travel and other work in the past few weeks I haven’t had much time to share my direct watercolour sketches as part of the 30×30 challenge. But I have been doing them, and in fact hit 30 on Thursday 13th June – less than half way through the month. Because I’m...

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