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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 6: The world offers itself to your imagination

Posted on January 23, 2019 by julia

Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it … Continue reading →

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Sketchaday Series 2, Episode 5: Time to stand and stare

Posted on January 11, 2019 by julia

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. William Henry Davies My kind of holiday is having the opportunity to absorb a landscape, without being rushed from one country to another, or … Continue reading →

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#Sketchaday 16: ‘This is what we do on BC day’….and when is a sketch finished?

Posted on August 2, 2016 by julia

I started two watercolour sketches today, when we took a trip up to the reservoir behind the Revelstoke Canyon Dam, one of more than a score of dams in the Kootenay region that supply BC’s electricity. It’s one of four … Continue reading →

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#Sketchaday6: Change of weather

Posted on July 23, 2016 by julia

After two days of brilliant sunshine and temperatures reaching 29 degrees C, today was overcast and windy. At around 7.30am each morning, as the sun comes over the mountain, we see this little squirrel in the garden. This morning it … Continue reading →

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