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Spain on my mind

It wasn’t hard to find a theme for my sketchbook pages this week. All things seem to revolve around Spain at the moment. We have been trying to choose tiles for the kitchen remotely. That is not all the easy as we were told to choose small format tiles and all the manufacturers seem [...]

Bird’s eye view

The first three pages of my sketchbook have been been filled. As I don’t have lots of supplies here I had to learn how to use those that I do. I bought some watercolour pencils at least 2 years ago now and haven’t used them at all. But I did bring them here to [...]

No so intimidating

My sketchbook arrived this week. I was surprised at how small the envelope was. I was expecting something a little larger – not having taken any notice of the dimensions mentioned on the project website. The sketchbook (with the brown cover) is 18 x 13cm – I’m not sure whether I’m pleased or not. [...]

The Sketchbook Project

Since my possibilities to do textile art are somewhat limited for the near future I’ve been looking for ideas to keep me active on the creative front. Although I’m not a great producer of sketchbooks and it was a nightmare for me to have to produce one to accompany Dolly for the Freedom exhibition [...]