Drivers licence, Dacia, and the duvet dance


Cooking, planning, and chores can sure mess up sketching time, but at last now we are near Paris. We originally reserved this apartment as a place to stay while we sold our car – three weeks seemed like plenty of time to get it done, while allowing us to just live in a French community…

On the MS Seagull in the Adriatic Sea


We are on our second day abord the MS Seagull, sailing through the Croatian islands. First, a couple of sketches from Split. I went out for coffee and discovered a quiet plaza apart from the tourist crowds. The fish marked in split is a crazy place, chaos and more types of fish than you can…

Split – our Croatian time continues


After a long, but beautiful, bus ride along the Adriatic Coast on Monday we are back in Split. It is quite different from Dubrovnik, not as many iconic tourist sights other than the Diocletian Palace, which is well worth the trip. Yet there is a lot I like about it here, specifically the Riva Promenade….

Lessons from Van Gogh and Instagram


“The duty of the painter is to study nature in depth and to use all his intelligence to put his feelings into his work so that it becomes comprehensible to others.” Van Gogh’s letter to Theo, 31 July 1882 This has been a light week as far as sketching and painting goes, but it has…

Home – wood stove, missing Neville, and food


We got back home on 4 January after a month in the US, so what has it been like? First off it has been pretty cold most of the time, morning temperatures in the 20sF, we even had a dusting of snow. We try to use our wood stove as little as possible, it is…