Those are my pomegranates from my front yard lost on the Algarve hillsthe litle church of Cachopo- Tavira at the Praia-Verde beach after a visit to a village near by. Was so hot and I needed fresh air.what better to eat on a hot, hot day. This is real Portuguese summer food and I soContinue reading “My trip to South Portugal – Algarve”
Author Archives: Paula Lourenco
Drive and sketch
Love to drive and love to sketch. This time I drove further south, almost to the frontier with Spain and stop at this beautiful litle town of salt pans and white houses, Castro Marim, for a sketch. From the Algarve hills to the seaside 🙂 Stillman & Birn square sketchbook, white nights watercolors.
Sketching in the wild 😜
Just drove from Lisbon to Algarve/Portugal , stop up on the hills for a sketch under 35 degrees Celsius. A girl gota do what she gota do …
Reviewing Stillman & Birn square sketchbook
I finally got this sketchbook on my hands, after being sold out everywhere online. I want it so badly that I wrote to mr. Stillman on Facebook and asked him to put it back available at Amazon or eBay or anywhere else and he answered me ! He advised me a French online shop whereContinue reading “Reviewing Stillman & Birn square sketchbook”
Let’s go etching today
my daily routine before going to Lisbon for the etching studio.
Why all the fuzz about sketchbooks
I started sketching on cheap plain white pages sketchbooks. At that time my sketchbooks were a mix of planners and sketchbooks , I put everything on it, stamps, addresses, phone numbers , sculpture projects, collages, reminders, you name it , I sketched with the same pen or pencil I wrote. But one day I boughtContinue reading “Why all the fuzz about sketchbooks”
Paula’s Aquatints -Copper etching
My Copper etching- aquatint
Simple life – sketches
Do you want start sketching?
Some people I met while sketching usually says “I wish I could sketch like that” . Well, you can. Really ! Once, a little child , maybe 5 or 6 years hold, asked me how I did that sketch, she was looking to the sketch and the real view at a time, she was reallyContinue reading “Do you want start sketching?”
