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 – not in The Pearl – January 8, 2025


Writing this from our deck in San José del Cabo, the quieter village 40 minutes east of the party city. Quiet is relative, but such is life, at least not much in the way of late night revelry here. The highlight of the weekend, before we left for Mexico, was Saturday when we met up…

This week in The Pearl – actually La Conner


We did spend the weekend in The Pearl. The cold weather made the warmth of the Mediterranean sound so inviting. For Sunday lunch I took inspiration from the roulade I did for Thanksgiving. We had a lone chicken breast in the freezer so I used gruyere, and spinach for a filling and did another roulade…