Travel Sketchbook
Tram 28, Alfama, Lisbon
Praça do Comércio, Lisbon
Alfama laundry
View over the Alfama
Old Portuguese tiles
Portuguese tourist wares!
Fado club performers
Rossio cobbles
Statues in the Acropolis museum. Given my inability to draw hands & feet, the broken statues from the Parthenon are PERFECT models!
Perfect hands-free posing, Acropolis museum
Casual Friday at the Acropolis
Acropolis resident, Athens
Temple of Hephaestus
Busts in the ancient Agora, Athens
Seafront at Naousa, Paros
Crazy cat lady heaven, Paros
Purrfect posing
Cute hilltop church at Galissas, Syros
View over Santorini's blue domes
Santorini bells
Hibiscus and passionflower
Temple of Apollo, Naxos
Ilias Lalaounis jewellery museum, Athens
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Place des Vosges
Port de l'Arsenal
Sacre Coeur
Cafe view, Paris
le petit dejeuner
Paris metro - art nouveau
Boat pond at the Jardin du Luxembourg
musée Rodin
Medina doorway, Marrakech
Moroccan mint tea
Jardin Majorelle
Medina gateway, Marrakech
Marrakech tilework. The evening curfew (Covid times...) gave me time to try my own "tiling" with scissors & coloured paper. Super fiddly!
Wonky donkey! And a copy of some carved plasterwork in the hotel
More Moroccan tilework. Ended up giving up as it is just far too complicated!
Tagine-tastic!
Burj al Arab, Dubai. Probably the nicest* of Dubai's crazy buildings, and fun to draw. *exterior only. The decor is ghastly!
Dubai skyline (part of - didn't bring enough paper to stick together!)
A couple of guys in dishdashas wandering in the mall
Burj Khalifa. I thought I measured this properly before I started, but I still ran off the top of the page. Ridiculous building!
Abras (water taxis) on Dubai Creek. Nice that this traditional method of transport still survives amongst the OTT glitz and extravagance
Jumeirah mosque
Traditional wind towers in the Heritage Village, Bur Dubai
Fabulous sculptures of divers at the waterfall in Dubai Mall
Lemon & fresh mint slushie
Blue Souq, Sharjah. Home of flying carpets, dusty treasures, sparkly things!
Shisha pipe. Naught but yummy
Budapest parliament
I do love a yellow tram! Liberty Bridge, Budapest
Cake o'clock! Budapest's famous Dobos Torta
Art Nouveau building details, Budapest
Holocaust memorial on the Danube
Aya Sophia Mosque, Istanbul
Blue Mosque, Istanbul
Iznik style Turkish tiles
Pomegranate stall
Manhattan skyline from the Staten Island ferry
Don't walk!
Brooklyn Bridge. Needed my ruler for this steel spider's web!
Strawberry Fields - John Lennon memorial, Central Park
Brownstone stoops on Perry St, Greenwich Village
Chrysler Building. Love this architecture!
Lady Liberty, NYC
View from the Boathouse, Central Park
View of the Manhattan Bridge from DUMBO, Brooklyn
NYC fire escapes
Stockholm - view of Södermalm from the Gamla Stan bridge
Colourful buildings in Gamla Stan, Stockholm
Pretty street in Stockholm old town
ABBA The Museum! Couldn't help myself!
Old clock tower & mosque in Skanderbeg square, Tirana city centre, Albania
Colourful Tirana suburbs
Old dudes on the shore of Lake Ohrid, Pogradec
Chess player
Orthodox church at Korca
Appolonia ruins, Albania
Ancient Ottoman bridge at Benja
Freedom monument at Vlora
Ancient statue at the historical site of Butrint, on the southern tip of Albania
Butrint mosaics
Spooky labyrinthine tunnels in Ali Pasha's fortress, Porto Palermo
UNESCO-listed buildings on the hilly streets of Berat
Main square, Gorée Island, Dakar
Horse cart in Saint Louis, Senegal
Crumbly Doorway, St Louis
Saint Louis fishing boat
Feline friend
Pelicans, Djoudj National Park, Senegal
Off to do some shopping
Senegalese lady in colourful clothes
Perfect posture!
Touba mosque, Senegal
Gambia river banks
Gambia river banks
Green vervet monkey
Pied kingfisher
Egret
Yellow crowned gonolek
Blue-breasted kingfisher
I have no idea what this plant is!! Pretty though
Sea view, Dakar
The Angel of the North - my favourite motorway art! Antony Gormley
Fountains Abbey
Lavender field, Norfolk
Beach huts, Wells-next-the-sea, Norfolk
Cley windmill, Norfolk
I. Hate. Seagulls.
Medieval streets in Lavenham, Suffolk
Fabulous crooked house at Lavenham. A perfect venue for my inability to draw vertical/horizontal lines!
Beach at Southwold, Suffolk
Glamping at Latitude Festival
Highclere Castle, AKA Downton Abbey
Stonehenge. Where the demons dwell Where the banshees live And they do live well!
Canal at Hungerford
Royal Crescent, Bath
Bilbury, Cotswolds (using artistic license to eradicate ghastly coachloads of tourists)
Thatched cottage, Cotswolds
Table Mountain from Signal Hill, Cape Town
Proteas in bloom at Kirstenbosch botanic gardens, Cape Town
Colourful Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Cheeky cape penguins at Boulders Beach
Nelson Mandela statue at City Hall, Cape Town
Groot Constantial pinotage - cheers!
Tsitsikamma national park - rainforest waok
Rock Hyrax
Tsitsikamma National Park
Wiley thieving Cape Baboon
Rondavels accommodation, Malealea, Lesotho
Entertainment - with improvised instruments! Lesotho
Drakensberg mountains
Aloe aloe!
Cape Batis
Yellow Weaver bird
Happy Hippos, St Lucia, South Africa
Rhinos, Hlane National Park, Eswatini
Giraffes, Hlane National Park
ENORMOUS land snail!
Flame tree and jacaranda
The Three Rondavels, Blyde River Canyon, South Africa
Pumbaa!
The lion king
Elephant, Kruger National Park
Fabulous glossy starling
Creepier residents of Kruger
Buffalo
The end
Baku - ancient & modern
Interesting Baku architecture
Oilfield tourism!
Azerbaijani pancakes filled with cheese & herbs
Baku is full of friendly street cats. Most are well fed by locals and have little cat houses provided to sleep in
Shebeke windows are created from small hand-carved wooden parts, which slot together to encase the glass without using glue or nails
Ananuri fortress complex, Georgia
Khinkali dumplings and Georgian wine
Gergeti Trinity church, shadowed by Mt Kazbek
Bell tower at Kutaisi Cathedral - with manual bell ringing by a man with a hammer, wearing giant ear defenders!
Georgian folk singer
Traditional village watchtowers in the remote Svaneti region of Georgia, in the High Caucasus mountains
Monuments of Tbilisi
(slightly wonky) view across Tbilisi old town
Georgian street dogs - huge and hairy! No doubt most containing a large genetic chunk of Caucasian Shepherd
Yerevan, Armenia - with views to Mt Ararat
Mother Armenia, keeping guard over Yerevan. She is recycled from a melted-down statue of Stalin that previously resided on the same plinth
Traditional filled Georgian pastry, shaped like a sack
Ancient bronze representation of the solar system, dating back to the 12th century BC. Armenian history museum
The Cascades is an outdoor sculpture park in Yerevan that stretches down a steep incline, incorporating over 500 stairs and piped waterfalls
Famous view of Khor Virap with Mt Ararat behind (artistic license eradicating the ugly queues of tour buses in the foreground!)
Storks nesting on village power poles
Pagan temple at Garni
Tamara - lovely gold-toothed singer/dancer in a historic Armenian cultural museum