Last Sunday we got back to our longstanding practice of Le déjeuner dominical (it has been jokingly called le messe du ventre – the mass of the stomach). Tricia and I both cook, I resist using the phrase “cooking duties” as that implies a burdensome task; for us it is a pleasure. The Brits use…
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TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – June 3, 2025
To make your bright areas more intense make your darks darker. I did the painting on the left first, it really did not look too bad. The Sunset at Otter Crest was quite dramatic so I wanted it to “pop”. I darkened the rocks and even the distant, dark, part of the ocean, as well…
This Week in The Pearl – a bit of café culture
Tricia frequently says, “Wherever you go, there you are.” Jimmy Buffett sang that “you take the weather with you.” Both of these thoughts came to my mind this week as I was sitting outside at Via Delizia, just down the street. Wednesday was a good day – a trip to Oblation Paper & Printing, a…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – Maybe I need the tip?
Aficionado – love and knowledge Collector – Ownership and curation When it comes to writing instruments I am an aficionado, not a collector, and therein is the dilemma. Here I am on the deck at The Inn at Otter Crest with my normal appurtenances – monocular for spotting ships and whales, a pint of stout,…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip – May 6, 2025
Even complex or irregular objects are built on the structure of basic shapes. Reduce the object to basic shapes, pencil them in, and then build on them.
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