Sometimes you find good advice in the strangest of places – even the back of a wine bottle. If you are still thinking about starting to sketch, the best time is now. Let me know how I can help. Etsy Shop My Etsy shop is getting going again, recently someone in Germany downloaded a print,…
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TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – July 29, 2025
The most interesting pieces of art have a focal point, contrast, and depth. Then if there is a story somehow it is even better. These are all areas I have had to learn, even struggle with over the years. Trying to paint some vast landscape without at least an interesting tree or mountain as the…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – the morning after
“ The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.” Andre Gide In our life’s times of unrest, art is a place to seek serenity. As my mind struggles to comprehend yesterday, art gives a bit of calm. The idealism of optimism has faded, but I cling to the…
Settling in to French life
We are settling in to French life. Wait, you say, you have been living in France for over two years, aren’t you already settled? In one sense, yes we are, as far as knowing how things work, or too often don’t work here. Yet, where we have been living in La Thebauderie we are surrounded…
Still in Normandie, for a bit
We are enjoying our time back in La Thébaudière. We have been doing some spring sorting, going through clothes that we just never wear and then donating them to groups that will get them to people who can use them. It is quite beautiful here. You turn off of a narrow road just barely wide…
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