Above: The Cathedral and old Roman bridge in Salamanca, 9 x 10″ or 22 x 25 cm., oil. You may recall from my last post, that I was in Segovia, Spain and I began hiking the Camino Madrid. This overlapped with Easter week in 2024. On the left the drawing from Valloladolid and on theContinueContinue reading “Easter Week Sketching in Salamanca and Valladolid, Spain”
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Visiting and Sketching in Valencia, Spain
After visiting Andalusia in southwest Spain, I went to the city of Valencia on Spain’s East Coast. I did some sketching, but the big excitement was that my visit coincided with Las Fallas’s week. This is an annual spring spectacle featuring intricately carved sculptures, fireworks displays, and traditional music and dance. Carved foam Fallas decorationsContinueContinue reading “Visiting and Sketching in Valencia, Spain”
A Sketching Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage
I had been plotting and dreaming for years. So in the spring of 2022, I grabbed my sketchbook and embarked on the Camino Francés, the primary route of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in northern Spain. Saint Jean de Pied de Port, France. The most common starting point for the Camino France route of theContinueContinue reading “A Sketching Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage”
Painted Journals 