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Big trip 2010: Inverness and surrounds

November 9, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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Teacup SketchingTravel Sketching

A few days in Inverness. My sister used to live here so it used to feel almost like my second home! River Cafe is a favourite spot for food. Nice to have some Charlie Barley black pludding. There is two big brands from Stornoway (McLeod and McLeod and Charlie Barley) so I have now had...

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Big Trip 2010: Volume 3 in full - NYC, Edinburgh and Isle of Lewis

November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
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Travel Sketching

Open publication – Free publishing – More travel Ok… here s Volume 3 in full where I left the US for Scotland and ended up on the Isle of Lewis where my sister had just moved. Quite a different feel to some of these pages and it was good to do some more landscapes –...

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Big Trip 2010: Isle of Lewis

November 6, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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Travel Sketching

My sister had just moved from Inverness to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. So it was exciting to be able to visit her in her new home and explore this island.   View from my sister’s kitchen and her new style of porridge. Exploring Stornoway. Note: the references to the Macleod shops are butchers...

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Friday Night restlessness - yellow theme

November 5, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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Everyday Sketching

A somewhat crazy and unplanned page – expressing a certain restlessness tonight. I am missing sketching a LOT and need to get a few things in my normal life into balance. I think the mammoth scanning task is a bit of a burden – I know there is no rush to get it all done...

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Big Trip 2010: Edinburgh

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On the way to Edinburgh – feeling sleep deprived but I was really happy with this soup sketch! More plane sketching to keep myself going! So so jet-lagged but I had to fit a tearoom visit in and I had a lovely chat to two ladies. And then I had to sketch the castle while...

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Big Trip 2010: Volume 2 in full - Portland, Kansas City and NYC

November 3, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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Travel Sketching

On a long trip like mine, the first Volume is a kind of a warm up. This, my second (of 8) sketchbooks, marks the start of a true liz-type-adventure… trying to do a LOT and sketching as much as possible….plus a number of meetings with online friends. The whole book in a single image- click...

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