Expansive scenes can be tricky, but asking ‘what caught your eye?’ will cut it down to size. Ok, I know I am posting my Tuesday Tip on Monday, but it just makes sense for today. Expansive landscape scenery captures our attention, grabbing our sketching stuff we jump in to capture it all, only to end…
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This year – 2024
What a year it has been, we could never have imagined how different our life would be now. Here are a few of the sketches that captured some moments along the way. A new year always presents a bit of uncertainty, little did we know all of the changes – but we have loved the…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip
There is no magic pencil – or pen, or marker, or brush – art is a process of repeated iterations. My name is theTravelsketcher and I am a Niffler when it comes to shiny new art stuff. Unpacking my art things from storage and from France makes it clear that I have more unused, or…
A week of thanksgiving
This has been a truly thankful week. Much of our time of course has been unpacking and we have made a lot of progress, it feels like home. Saturday we had lunch with my son and daughter-in-law in Lake Oswego, Sunday our daughter and son-in-law, then on Wednesday our friends came over for a pre-Thanksgiving…
Settling into the Pearl
We are settling into our apartment in the Pearl quite nicely and the sense I had early on of a bit of a Parisian feel has only grown. We can walk to most anything we need, we already discovered The Fields Bar & Grill which has a casual neighborhood feel – not the same as…
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