Camino Frances

A memorable experience is the Camino Frances.  With the new year, I will post some reflections on this.  This year, after walking the Camino Frances across Spain, has been cleaning out the basement of papers and books of past academic activities of 40 years and moving into new experiences of doing more art, photography, Spanish lessons, and Piano lessons.

Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, Porte d'Espagne by the bridge

Looking Back: Study Abroad program, London 2013

Looking back at a Study Abroad program to London 2013

Some notes from Carolyn Matthews on the trip.  She managed our Facebook page and had a blog.

CarolynJeanMatthews

https://www.flickr.com/photos/79858873@N04/sets/  Two sketch journals

https://carolynjeanmatthews.com/category/london-2013/

Category: London 2013

Why Should You Study Abroad?

Posted on February 17, 2014

During the 4.5 years I have spent at UWSP I have heard one question more than any other: “If you… Read more Why Should You Study Abroad?

In short: I lived in London

Posted on February 17, 2014

  “Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the… Read more In short: I lived in London

The London Underground

Posted on November 18, 2013

  Before coming to London I had heard of the London Underground. Everyone has heard of the London Underground. In… Read more The London Underground

Wales: Coast to Mountains

Posted on October 17, 2013

“Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan’s blood.… Read more Wales: Coast to Mountains
 

Back to Wisconsin from Mexico

2018.  January. Just returned from an amazing trip to rural Mexico in to the mountains and coffee farms.  Beautiful landscape and good people to know all around.
Will be trying to add more here again.  Can't believe that a year has passed since last post.  So much has changed.  I have left teaching at the University and now will be doing my art. 

February 2017

Trying to make this a more active site with notes on the inspiration and meaning drawn from sketching and drawing and art out and about.
Working on a project for COFAC CREATES - Expressions of Place LINK.  It will be part of a gallery show (Agnes Jones Gallery) in March to April.  Also looking forward to participating in the 55th World Wide SketchCrawl event (LINK) in April - near earthday!
A cold February Sunday morning today!
Passing by Lake Wazeecha -South Wood County Park in Kellner, Wisconsin LINK 
and a map of the Park LINK

A New Year!

A New Year - 2017. Updated with new name for Blog - "Sketching, Art, and Musings"
with a new address  http://sketchartmusings.blogspot.com/

January brought out a group to do the 54th World Wide SketchCrawl around the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Campus.  A good day indeed.

Please see the work of the participants posted on the Sketch crawl website:
http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=13578

SketchCrawls - good to do!

SketchCrawls are good to do!  Especially when you share your work with sketchers across the world.
I have just completed a short sprint with the 51st WorldWide Sketch crawl this week.  Wanted to sketch more, but I did not have time, so I fit in what I could.  A nice day to be out on a bike downtown in the square.
See posts at :  http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=13298
 

A past activity.

It was neat to see that I had my sketchbook on display in 2013 at the school that my son, Brian, graduated from - - Winter Park, FL  Full Sail University  This being among other exhibits, including Los Angeles (where my two sons lived, until Nathan moved to Cleveland in 2017) and London in October and Melbourne, Australia in November.  After the world tour, the sketchbooks will all reside in Brooklyn, New York at the Brooklyn Art Library.

https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/10335

New Start to an Old Blog

Welcome to my redo and new start to an older blog.

I was not able to get into a Blog that I started a few years ago, so this is an update.  I would like to share thoughts on Design and Sketching, so here is another start.

This is a link to the older blog, Design Sketching.  http://designsketching.blogspot.com/
Since this one is related, I used the same name and added 2. 

The New York City Brooklyn Art Library has one of my travel sketchbooks from Italy, with a digital link online: https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/S71251 (2022 note - they have since moved to Florida).

A last note for this post - one of my memorable sketchers is Enrico Casarosa, who also did the Pixar short animation film, La Luna.  I first saw his work online when he was blogging about his travel in Venice - now a book, the Venice Chronicles.   There is a Venice Chronicles Flickr site where you can view a set of the pages too.  I am most impressed with his legacy in the start of the WorldWide SketchCrawl (search the Forum area for the current sketchcrawl event), which I like to participate in every year. Here is a link to his first SketchCrawl with narrative:http://www.enricocasarosa.com/sketchcrawl.html    and a link to his Second SketchCrawl with Colleagues http://www.enricocasarosa.com/sketchcrawl2.html    and some 2004 miscellaeous sketches by Enrico.