A few pictures of my stand before the crowds arrived.
Then some pictures of my workshop which was such fun, see what the participants came up with in just 90 minutes!
Ended the Saturday evening with a great pizza with friends then back to the camper and the cute campsite.
Another collection from my sketchbook travels, another little book in the making. This one is all about our summer travels in our 1979 VW Camper – a trusty member of the family for over 20 years.
“Vignettes de Provence” and “Vignettes de l’Ubaye”
Pages from my sketchbooks, edited in 2023 into two small booklets that were self published, somehow I forgot to post about them at the time.
I had such fun trawling through my sketchbooks to choose the images, and I even had fun scanning them and putting it all together on Photoshop – although there were moments when I found it incredibly frustrating and out of my comfort zone!
However they did really well, I had to re-order several times. So I’m taking a deep breath and I’m about to start another one, this time I’m taking my sketches from further afield, India, Nepal, Morocco, Myanmar and Laos.
The current ones are available on my Etsy store, SusanKnappSketches
I can have my cake and eat it too, as long as I sketch it first!
At the top is a traditional Gâteau des Rois, eaten in France on the 6th of January, Epiphany.
Below an Italian pastry filled with “ crema pasticcera “…….
I don’t very often sketch food, but I really enjoy sketching cakes, perhaps I need to do more in 2024.
These are not necessarily the ones that got the most likes on Instagram or Facebook, but the ones I had the most fun doing and hold the best memories.
They are all from near home, not including any travel sketches.
It’s ten years since I last visited Nepal, and despite the fact that it’s busier and with a definite increase in air pollution it remains at heart the same.
The people are delightful and welcoming, the food is wonderful and the incredible monuments and buildings are just waiting to be sketched. Most of the historic buildings have been restored after the earthquakes but apparently not all the dwellings.
Here is a small selection of sketches, I’m actually planning to do a “Travel Vignettes “ booklet in the new year……. Watch this space!
Despite all my promises and good intentions summer did not go as planned, but I will try to catch up with a few sketches from home and travels near to home.
Early summer, local villages and gardens.
Carnets de Voyage en Provence 2023
A wonderful weekend at the end of February spent in the company of 60 other “carnettistes” , that is sketchers, showing our sketchbooks to the many, many appreciative visitors .
The other sketchers were from all over France and Europe too and like me they had travelled and sketched all over the world.
Such an amazing experience that I was proud to participate in.
Pages from my sketchbooks over the winter months, from blue skies to snowy landscapes.
Moving between the Var where we don’t often get snow to the Ubaye valley with its winter climate and ski stations.
Susan Knapp Sketches 