Sunday Sketchbook: Canada

Listening to Latino musicians performing in a cafe while I'm on a quick trip to Montreal for an infusion of ethnic food (a commodity that's in short supply in Vermont).

Sunday Sketchbook: Provence

From my terrace, a view of houses and trees that, as Cezanne observed, share a clear geometry of shapes.

Shady Path, Galicia

After the noise and traffic of Madrid, it's good to remember the green quiet of the Camino.

Sunday Sketchbook: Galicia

To celebrate the end of our sketchbook pilgrimage, we ate a huge Galician meal, drank plenty of local wine, and composed haikus inspired by our week walking and drawing together.
Here's mine:
No Camino, only
step by step, no Art
just now and now and now.

Two Trees on the Camino

The Camino de Santiago in Galicia winds through villages, over streams, past farm fields, and into forest groves--a walking and painting paradise.

Sunday Sketchbook: Santiago de Compostela

Yesterday morning, on my way to the cathedral, I found this market--a sketchbook paradise, worthy of its own pilgrimage.

Sunday Sketchbook: Packing

I find that beginning the first pages of a travel sketchbook while still here at home helps me cope with pre-trip anxieties (such as what to pack for a five week European jaunt that includes both hiking on dusty Galician foot paths and lecturing in the very tidy Louvre).

Memory: Roussilon at Sunset

The town of Roussilon in Provence is built next to an old ochre quarry. Seen from a distance at sunset or sunrise, it's a glowing marker in a patterned landscape of orchards and fields.