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A little Venice Sketch Therapy

November 11, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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Isn’t just Rome sketches that hit the spot for me… how about a magnificent Palace on the Grand Canal that was too hard to sketch on location…. My favourite is Palazzo Grimani by Sanmicheli!

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Post Trip Restlessness and sketching my sketchbooks

November 10, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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Sketchbooks

just a quick sketch from a photo from my recent time in Rome – done in 15 minutes late at night last night! Having a minor sketch crisis (more below) at the moment and this just really helped me… nothing like a bit of Roman sketch therapy! This page is my just rambling about total...

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Earl Greys of Crows Nest 01 - Bean Drinking

November 10, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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Starting a new series in an attempt to: 1. get me out of the office more at lunchtime 2. sketch what I enjoy sketching during the week 3. break this silly attitude ‘there is nothing much of interest in Crows Nest to sketch’ (of course translated to post-big-trip-Liz-talk this is ‘there is no baroque buildings...

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Big trip 2010: Inverness and surrounds

November 9, 2010 | Leave your thoughts
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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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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

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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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