stuttgart, germany
2000
travels.
Friday, January 30, 2009
friday field trip (from the sketch book).
in keeping with chinese new year theme, here are some sketches from a trip i took to china. they are mostly from the very southern province of guangdong. this is the province where my father’s ancestors are from and where the factory is that produces my manufactured line. i love visiting this province and i truly feel an eerie familiarity when i’m there. as if the ghosts of my ancestors are hovering over me, in a good way of course.
china
november 2003
Friday, January 23, 2009
friday field trip (from the sketchbook).
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here is some subtle colour on this grey (but so beautiful) day. to me, the colours of tuscany are very colourful but in a muted sort of way . . . JUST the way i like it.
italy
july 2004
Friday, January 09, 2009
friday field trip (from the sketchbook).
two of my great passions in life are traveling and sketching, which equals many many travel sketchbooks. it all started in spain in 1993. while traveling on a train, my camera was stolen out of my backpack. i began to sketch in my journal just so i could capture certain things that i wanted to remember. my journal eventually turned into a sketchbook. all of my sketches are done really quickly, literally in seconds, and i actually find that my best sketches are done in a moving vehicle like a car or even while riding a bike.
every friday i am going to post a page from one of my travel sketchbooks. that way, even if i can’t go on a weekend journey physically, i can mentally.
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barcelona, spain
24 july 1993
Thursday, September 18, 2008
road trip.
today we drove from vermont through new hampshire to maine. i am SO ready to be on that boat to nova scotia. we set sail on FRIDAY.
