It is Friday, vendredi, here in Chartres, France. We arrived yesterday to visit their famous cathedral, and a bit of the city. I notice that there are other churches nearby which I would like to visit as well. They are not as famous, yet I am sure worth a stop. The week started with another…
Tag: Watercolor
La Rochelle to Home in Normandie
We reluctantly left La Rochelle, such a wonderful place, yet with Normandie as our destination and home how bad could it be. Spring is in the air, flowers are in bloom, and of course the lawn, thankfully quite small, needed mowing. But first a couple parting sketches from La Rochelle. Friday morning I went for…
TheTravelsketcher 14 March 2023
This week was an eclectic week known as Easter Week on the Liturgical calendar so an Easter sketch was a fitting start. This one I did with a white acrylic pen on black paper. Matin de Pâques – ils ont vu une grande lumiére. One of the oldest churches in the area is Église Notre-Dame-sur-l’Eau…
Sketching, One One Year In France
Mardi de cette semaine, c’était notre premier anniversaire de déménagement en France. (Tuesday of this week was our first anniversary of moving to France.) Our life has changed, the world has changed, and my sketching continues to change. Our lives have changed in so many ways, I have written of many of those changes in…
Aquarelle, Graphite and Shirley
This has been an interesting, well OK, challenging week as far as the French System goes, but thankfully graphite pencils, watercolor markers, and friends got me through. Last week we returned from five days in Paris with Alexis and Joe. Wednesday evening we said our goodbyes. They left early Thursday morning for CDG and flights…
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