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Summer Travels 2023: Parks
Summer means long days and warm weather. Perfect hanging-in-the-park season. We did lots of that, from picnicking outdoors well past 10 pm because it was still light, to always having a book in our...
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Summer Travels 2023: More Parks
Here is Part 2 of my sketches-in-parks series. Butte Chaumont Parc was once a quarry, which accounts for the strange outcropping of rock in the center of the park. On this Saturday, we were surrounded...
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Summer Travels 2023: Food
While I love food, it rarely shows up in sketches in that classic “food-on-plate” way. Once in a while, a little vignette that jogs my memory might appear as a part of a larger page of sketches, like...
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Summer Travels 2023: Museums in Paris
One of the highlights of the summer was all the museums we visited and the incredible range of art we saw. I didn’t sketch at every place we visited, but here are a few highlights and sketches. Most...
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Summer Travels 2023: More Museums
My last posts has sketches and memories from some of the museums I visited this summer. Here are some more. I skipped visiting the Louvre this time, but I’d never skip Musee d’Orsay. Sometimes, I...
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Summer Travels 2023: Trains and Planes
My summer travels included plane rides, but also, to my delight, lots of train rides. Many people draw obligatory plane sketches at the airport. I tend to draw people. Airport people take on a...
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Summer Travels 2023: More from Paris
I’ve posted most of my sketches from Paris under posts about gardens, museums, more museums, and trains. Here are some more that don’t quite fit those categories. This is the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in...
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Summer Travels 2023: Netherlands
From Paris, we took a train to Amsterdam for a few days. Hours after I got in, I met up with Koosje Koene for a quick sketch session in Leidseplein. It was a lively spot with lots of people coming and...
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Summer Travels 2023: Berlin and Prague
From Amsterdam, we took a train to Berlin, and then on to Prague. In both cities, we wandered around for a couple of days, and visited some fantastic museums and gardens. You’ve seen those sketches...
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Summer Travels 2023: A few days in Normandy
One of our last train rides of the trip was riding a commuter train from Paris to the town of Rouen in Normandy. In Roueau, there’s a gothic cathedral every which way you turn. This is the Church of...
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