Trip to South America - part IV - connection in Madrid.

So, we left Rio and landed in Madrid, where we had a 12 hours waiting to our connection flight. Great opportunity to taste some tapas and to do some sketches :)

Trip to South America - Part II, Montevideo.

Visiting Montevideo was a family part of the trip, since it's my husband's hometown, he still has there a lot family and we were invited to is nephew's wedding. Montevideo isn't on the "must visit" list of the South American cities, but it has it's charm and it was the calm part of the trip, with many family visits, less attractions vising, it was nice :)
We had a huge delay of our flight to Montevideo :( But in such a case there's always a bright side for a sketcher - an opportunity to draw!!!

 Finally, we arrived! We rented very nice apparent with the view to the beach :)

 Some sketches from the wedding:

 Chao, Montevideo!

Next part - Brazil! Stay tuned :)

Pages from my US sketchbook - part 1

Finally our longest and farthest family trip is behind us. Three weeks of traveling across the US West Coast was fabulous, full of great family experiences and unforgettable moments. Nature and cites, coasts and deserts, and, of course, people, so many different people - a lot of great memories!
I didn't expect to use my sketchbook much on our trip - after all it was a family trip and I wanted to enjoy some special time with my children and husband. But, of course, I brought my sketchbook along and I'm very happy with the result! Most of sketches were done during our meals or some while waiting, but even they tell me great stories, and remind me of tiny details that I would be sure to forget if I hadn't sketched them.

It starts as usual from some airport sketches - the beginning of the trip, when everything is ahead, a lot of expectations...

We've landed at Las Vegas - city than got everything inside - fake Paris, fake Venice, fake Rome... impressive, but...

After a few days of recovery we took the direction to Utah's National Parks - amazing Bryce Canyon and fabulous Zion Park.

felling like at Far West - at Rubby's Inn restaurant at Bryce Canyon

pizza everywhere...

beautiful morning at Zion lodge

end point of Upper Emerald Pool trail at Zion Park

Our next destination, LA , was including Disney World an Universal Studios.

we ate huge amount of hamburgers!

having dinner after a day at Disney World

buying new guitar for my son - some time of waiting near guitar store

wide range of people at Venice Beach

at Universal Studios

Ok, I think I'll stop here. Stay tuned - will be continued ;-)

Berlin has it all - part 1

I'm back from Berlin - the city which has totally fascinated me! It is very different from every European capital I've visited. I filled many pages of my small Berliner sketchbook I bought especially for the trip and some of my watercolor Moleskine as well. So I'll start to post them, little by little, hoping to share with you some of my experience.
Every journey starts from an airport -  and I love sketching people that busy by waiting for their journeys to begin!

Stay tuned - the more will come!