Italy Travel Sketchbook 2014

Just back from 17 days in Italy - Milan, the Cinque Terre, Florence and Italy.  Lots of sketching and  journaling on this trip (such great cafes to stop in for wine and sketching!).  Ciao to Italy - but just for now.

 

 

Trip Prep: Italy 2014

Now that we're under 3 weeks from leaving for a trip to Italy, it was time to begin the Italy travel sketchbook.  Prep has begun - 1st step:  pick the palette & make sure all the pens works!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Week in Paris

Just spent a week in Paris.  Managed to get a few sketches in my travel journal between seeing new sights, sipping wine in cafes and trying new restaurants!

First day:  sites around St. Germaine where we stayed.  Love the 5th arrondissement!

 

Ventured to several small museums we hadn't visited before and also managed to see the stunning interior of L'Opéra for the first time.

 

 

 

What a fun time I had sitting outside a café sipping rosé while sketching artists in Place du Tertre on the top of the butte in Montmartre.  Mikolo (middle) sketched my portrait while I sketched him and his fellow artist friend, Luigi. 

 

 

 

Delay leaving Heathrow so plenty of time to sketch my view out the window and hubby to my right.  Au Revoir Paris!

Western Sketchin'

Just spent a few days in Arizona and enjoyed sketching a bit of the Old West local flavor!

London Sketchbook

A wonderful Christmas in London - 10 days at least partly captured in sketches.

The Travel Sketchbook Begins

We're off to London for Christmas.  Paint box is filled and ready to go. I couldn't resist getting a jump start on my London sketch journal even before we get on the plane!  Happy holidays sketcher friends.

Travel Sketching on Trip to Baltimore

Managed some travel sketching on planes & Amtrak while back in Baltimore to teach a grad class at Goucher College.

Alumnae/Alumni House on Goucher College campus.

Sketching in Penn Station and on Amtrak, Baltimore to DC side trip to visit a friend.

Waiting at the gate between flights, Chicago O'Hare.

Final leg home - on the plane from Chicago to Seattle.

Belle France

Just back from a wonderful trip to the Beaujolais Region, Southern Burgundy and Provençe, France.  Lots of sketching.  These are a few of my favorites, starting with hubby's luggage packed 5 days early!  Then to the long flight on Icelandair with a quick plane change in Reykjavik before heading to Paris. 

Loved sketching the vintage Citroen and several French delights such as white asparugus!  Then on to our gite in St. Saturnin-lès-Apt from which we spent 6 glorious sunny days travelling to nearby villages, taking in an antique fair and pottery market, and just loving life in the French countryside!
 


The Long Flight

 

 

 So Delightfully French

 

Our Gite in Provençe

En Visite en France

Next week we leave for a long-planned trip to Southern Burgundy, the lower Rhône Valley and Provence.  Getting my sketching gear together, I just couldn't resist sketching our itinerary and of course with a map!!  À Bientôt.

Travelin'

Just on East Coast to teach.  Flying coast-to-coast and taking train from Baltimore to DC offered some good sketching opportunities.  Waiting readers and sleeping travelers are great sketch subjects; they sit still!

Travel Sketching in Italia

Just back from Italy, my first European trip with sketchbook in hand.  What a treat to sketch on location in Rome, Florence and places in Tuscany.  Too many sketches to post here so I thought I'd focus on my travel journal-style sketches (along with 1 big plane thrown in for mood). 

 

If interested, my Italy Sketchbook is on flickr and I'm adding to it as I finish a few more sketches started in the streets of Florence.