Scotland: Road Trip to The North
Back in October 2018, we went to Scotland to celebrate the love of my brother and his new wife. They had their wedding celebration in Gretna Green, Scotland. What a great opportunity to road trip Scotland! As previously mentioned, driving out of Edinburgh was interesting but driving up to The North was entirely different. ...
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Watercolour Creatures
January and February largely involved me curled up in my living room chair, watching all the old Planet Earth's on Netflix, while drawing and painting. I think my favourite is Blue Planet. Nope, wait a minute ... it's Frozen Planet. THEY ARE ALL SO GOOD! Here are some of the illustrations from January/February and my ...
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10 Day Scotland Road Trip
A overview map of where we went in Scotland. In October, we did a quick 10 day road trip of Scotland. My brother and new sister-in-law had their wedding in Gretna Green and so we did some exploring before and after the festivities. We landed in Glasgow, took the train to Edinburgh and after that we were travelling by ...
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The Best of what I Read in 2018
Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée A very vulnerable graphic novel about childhood that made my heart hurt. Much of it is the author making sense of the past and how it relates to her identity. I think its a meditation on dealing with your past, your family, but still managing to find yourself despite the confusion of ...
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Perspective Study – Winter Building
One of the most fun and challenging parts about teaching myself how to watercolour paint are the skills I've discovered along the way. In the beginning, its easy (but also scary and exciting) to say, "I'm going to start watercolour painting!" Would I have even started if I truly knew that I was actually going to try to ...
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Paul Kane Park in Watercolour
I spent the last warm evening of the summer drawing and painting at Paul Kane Park before the descent of autumn in Edmonton. Now, its cold and wet in Edmonton. I fear we are going to lose our beautiful autumn colours before the end of September. Paul Kane Ornamental Pond is a public-use park in Edmonton. It was ...
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Tea Tasting in Tokyo
I highly recommend doing a tea tasting or a tea ceremony in Japan. Billy and I aren't major tea drinkers so we opted for a more casual tasting over a ceremony. We left the experience with an appreciation for tea and discovered some new flavours in our palate. This post I'm going to share a few photos I took during the ...
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