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HOW TO USE THESE NOTES: These notes are dynamic.  I’ll post a note and return later to add an additional sketch or a link to another post, as they are completed.  It’s almost more of a bulletin board in that regard.   I add “post updated” notes to help you identifiy notes of interest that may have been updated since your last visit.

Rebel Urban Sketching? Using Reference Photos

Urban Sketching has official rules.  One of those rules is that you must sketch onsite from direct observation. Great rule...but what about reference photos?There are 3 times that reference photos and urban sketching are perfect companions, in my opinion. 1. When...

Rebel Urban Sketching? NOT on Location

This sourdough bakery located in Carcross, Yukon, was NOT sketched on location.  It was sketched a full 8 months after I visited it from a reference photo. REBEL URBAN SKETCHER? To be an “official” urban sketcher associated with the non-profit organization that...

Is Your Town Too Boring to Sketch?

I just saw a post in an urban sketching Facebook group that I participate in from a gentleman who said he couldn’t find anything interesting to sketch in his hometown. His hometown was Calgary, Alberta. What?!? I live in small town Canada (population 397).  It was...

Must Have Coffee Stop For Every Canadian Road Trip (Nope – it’s not Tim’s!)

From Fredericton, New Brunswick to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (and back) the coffee shops you won’t want to miss…and other attractions along the way.

Wild About Wild Camping!

Wild About Wild Camping!

A site in New Mexico while road-tripping from California to New York, USA.30AUGUST 30, 2023Off-Grid AdventuresFree Camping FunReconnecting With NatureWild camping (aka stealth camping) is a free, off-grid getaway that reconnects the soul with nature.  It is a go-to...

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Tough Days (How to Survive Them)

Tough Days (How to Survive Them)

My Sweetie’s father has passed and we have just gone though all that follows. Visitations, funeral, burial and the complicated process of grieving and saying goodbye, which is likely to continue for some time to come. This has gotten me thinking about hard days and...

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