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…
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TheTravelsktcher’s Tuesday – Another easy way
Continuing with ideas for easy ways to capture the moments, consider an impressive, but equally intimidating place – Notre-Dame de Paris. Visualize that you are sitting in the Place de Jean Paul on a sunny day, the courtyard in front of Notre Dame. There is always a lot of activity, you ponder the church and…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Skyline sketch
I am continuing on in my quest to show a variety of simple ways to capture your moments. Another simple way is to draw the skyline. These are actually pretty popular as pieces of art, I have seen them in shops in many countries. Remember that the objective here is to be a bit more…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – February 17, 2026
The last couple of weeks I gave some tips for sketching buildings, and used a couple of different approaches. This is all to show that there is not just one way to sketch a building while traveling. Today I continue that concept with an even different approach. I am using my “local” place, The Fields…
This week in The Pearl – February 6, 2026
We continue to just enjoy life in The Pearl. What we like about it here are the small similarities it has with Paris. Our streets are like cobblestone, actually basalt stones once used as ballast in sailing ships. The streets are tree lined, parks, and shops and restaurants are easy walks. There is even Powell’s…
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