TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Well……


We have always been light packers, a habit I picked up during my seminar travel days. We decided early in the planning for this trip, which begins today, that we would not check any bags. AND was that such a good decision. As we were doing a few things, so as to be ready to…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Fine dining


“And asparagus? My father would sooner have carried a twenty-dollar bill to his grave than spend it on some glamorous weed coated in cheese. But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Continuing the story II


I am continuing with the story of how I became theTravelsketcher and my life on the road, here is the link to the first post. It is the second day at the Ramada in Portland; a burger for dinner in the Bonzo Bill’s Sports Bar. Monday Night Football is playing, the Indianapolis Colts and the…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Another greeting card


Last week I showed an easy way to make a greeting card, I hope you give it a try. As promised, here is another card, almost as easy. I think most folks can do this one – just follow the steps. Here is the set up. Watercolors in Ultramarine blue and Sap green, a medium…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Easy greeting cards I


Painting your own greeting cards makes them personal, and a lot less expensive. Certainly one can make them quite intricate, but today I want to show a super easy way. Next week will be a slightly less easy way to paint a card but still quite doable, each of which would be welcome by the…