Love this journal, so inviting and colorful. Have you thought of offering a sketching journal class. While others maybe proficient at drawing and others at journaling, you have the total package. Your drawing is excellent but your not intimidating and your supportive so artists like me would dare to take a sketching/journal class from you. You even have your class sample.
Oh I want to go back …for a whole season. I’ve been in many countries and lived in many places, but there is nothing like Italy for…la dolce vita all the time, even when working or doing the day to day things we all do. Sigh. This year CA will have to do. That chef-son of mine is now in Newport Beach. 🙂
Your words are like a painting, your paintings echo the images in your photographs. I breathe in the air, sighing. Lovely pages, photos & words. Thank you doesn’t seem to be enough to express the feelings.
Gretchen Gudefinsays
Your Umbria journal is a jaw dropping, absolutely stunning work of pure art and poetry. I have loved all your previous journals but this one? Well this one simply makes my heart ache with its ability to evoke such a sublime sense of place and experience though your sketches and words. To me, a true artist is one who can capture something- whether it be a scene, an object or an emotion with such individuality that the second one sees it, they know from whose pen, brush or pencil it came from. YOU my dear, are a true artist. You have captured more of Umbria on any one single page with far more heart and beauty than if you had produced 100 folios of technically perfect, photo realist renderings. And your words…. oh those beautiful words! Your “pepe nero” page reads like pure poetry (tilted earth; lush fields like green sponges drinking in the light, swallowing the rain… growing, growing, growing.. ); does it get any better? I think not.
Forgive the length of this comment- but I have been formulating it in my head all week ever since you started posting these truly remarkeable pages and today’s sweet offerings have opened the spill gates; thank you so very much for sharing them with us.
It blows me away how beautiful Italy is. I can’t imagine living in such a place. I’d get nothing done. I’d be too busy going for long, s l o w walks, looking out my window, stopping at little cafes for a cup of whatever sounded good at the moment. I guess I can’t imagine being surrounded by that much beauty and from every angle and side. Just want ya to know you go above and beyond sharing all of this with us. You are my eyes on bits of the world I wouldn’t get to see otherwise. Many hugs for being such an avid wanderer of the world. I’ve become a permanent stowaway.
PS Books on my list i haven’t’ read these yet but I recently wandered into a little local book shop and these titles got my attention and i put them on my list. I smiled when I saw you were reading the Orchardist as that is one I recently added to my list
The Humanity Project by Jean Thompson
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
(this one is a thriller and *might* be good, the story line got my attention)
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer I think this one is going be next up for me.
Sugarhouse by Mathew Bati is a memoir about turning a known crack house into a home. I was drawn to the cover which is how I’ve found some of my favorite books ( might not be up your alley but putting it out there just the same 🙂
Happy Reading!!!!
Love this journal, so inviting and colorful. Have you thought of offering a sketching journal class. While others maybe proficient at drawing and others at journaling, you have the total package. Your drawing is excellent but your not intimidating and your supportive so artists like me would dare to take a sketching/journal class from you. You even have your class sample.
Oh I want to go back …for a whole season. I’ve been in many countries and lived in many places, but there is nothing like Italy for…la dolce vita all the time, even when working or doing the day to day things we all do. Sigh. This year CA will have to do. That chef-son of mine is now in Newport Beach. 🙂
Your words are like a painting, your paintings echo the images in your photographs. I breathe in the air, sighing. Lovely pages, photos & words. Thank you doesn’t seem to be enough to express the feelings.
Your Umbria journal is a jaw dropping, absolutely stunning work of pure art and poetry. I have loved all your previous journals but this one? Well this one simply makes my heart ache with its ability to evoke such a sublime sense of place and experience though your sketches and words. To me, a true artist is one who can capture something- whether it be a scene, an object or an emotion with such individuality that the second one sees it, they know from whose pen, brush or pencil it came from. YOU my dear, are a true artist. You have captured more of Umbria on any one single page with far more heart and beauty than if you had produced 100 folios of technically perfect, photo realist renderings. And your words…. oh those beautiful words! Your “pepe nero” page reads like pure poetry (tilted earth; lush fields like green sponges drinking in the light, swallowing the rain… growing, growing, growing.. ); does it get any better? I think not.
Forgive the length of this comment- but I have been formulating it in my head all week ever since you started posting these truly remarkeable pages and today’s sweet offerings have opened the spill gates; thank you so very much for sharing them with us.
It blows me away how beautiful Italy is. I can’t imagine living in such a place. I’d get nothing done. I’d be too busy going for long, s l o w walks, looking out my window, stopping at little cafes for a cup of whatever sounded good at the moment. I guess I can’t imagine being surrounded by that much beauty and from every angle and side. Just want ya to know you go above and beyond sharing all of this with us. You are my eyes on bits of the world I wouldn’t get to see otherwise. Many hugs for being such an avid wanderer of the world. I’ve become a permanent stowaway.
PS Books on my list i haven’t’ read these yet but I recently wandered into a little local book shop and these titles got my attention and i put them on my list. I smiled when I saw you were reading the Orchardist as that is one I recently added to my list
The Humanity Project by Jean Thompson
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
(this one is a thriller and *might* be good, the story line got my attention)
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer I think this one is going be next up for me.
Sugarhouse by Mathew Bati is a memoir about turning a known crack house into a home. I was drawn to the cover which is how I’ve found some of my favorite books ( might not be up your alley but putting it out there just the same 🙂
Happy Reading!!!!
good lord, that’s beautiful.