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.
COMING SOON, VINGETTES VAN LIFE
urban sketcher
VIGNETTES
“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
SOME OF MY FAVORITES FROM 2023
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.
NEPAL NOVEMBER 2023
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!
sometime last summer
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.
Aix-en-provence
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.
Winter in Provence
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.
India part two
Ladakh to New Delhi via Kargil and Srinagar.
An incredible and sometimes hair raising journey from the high mountains of Ladakh over pass’s of 5,000 meters, down to the beautiful Dal lake in Cashmere and then to New Delhi. Sketching all the way!
India, part one.
August, September 2022.
Leh, Ladakh.
Some of the pages from my sketchbook, in and around Leh in Ladakh.
A wonderful and peaceful region to sketch, predominately Buddhist, with incredible perched monasteries and fields full of Stupas and Chortens.
All surrounded by hugely impressive high mountains with gardens and valleys full of flowers.
Because of the altitude the colours appear so pure and bright, such a fabulous place to visit.
Susan Knapp Sketches 