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This is my first drawing on my Live Notebook .

My two notebooks arrived today. One is Love, which I will be using for pencil sketches, and the other is Live, which I will be using for watercolour sketches. Both were handcrafted in Singapore by persons with disabilities. The binding is beautiful and since both are hard-bound, it will definitely survive the way I squish stuff into my duffle bag. Learn more about the organisation that makes these notebooks: spd.org.sg Check out their other products and services: spd.org.sg/products.html View and order these notebooks on their Instagram page:  instagram.com/paintersjournal/ I am both thrilled and afraid to use these notebooks. Thrilled to fill them with drawings and afraid that my drawings will not be as beautiful as the notebooks that contain them.

this is the closest I will get to real (star wars) pod racing ever! Photos by The Traveling Kit

Photos by  The Traveling Kit

I did not have time to do a full watercolor sketch of these gardens so I only did a quick pencil sketch on my notebook and finished the sketch in watercolour at home. There were two gardens that I sketched when we visited Hikone Castle, the one on top was at their main big garden, the view above was found near the entrance, and the other one I painte d was near the exit but both are connected. This bigpond has a part where you can see the Hikone Castle in the background, If we ever comeback here in Autumn I want to do that view. The other garden below is a small intimate garden found at the back of the museum but you can only access it through the museum.

This is only a part of the Ena Gorge area which is a very scenic site,  and we plan to go back there this autmn

Photo by Kikit We were supposed to be on our way home, walking on a rainy sunday morning. What was to be a 30minute walk turned out to be a 2 hour sketching and picture-taking session.

I saw this Girl Sketching outside the temple of the Emerald Buddha in Thailand, I walked up to her and asked her if i could watch her sketch and she said it was ok. She was just starting to sketch the temple spires with her colored pencils so after a few minutes I left her to her sketching, I did not ask questions as to not disturb her. I certainly have seen more people sketching here in Japan last march than anywhere else I have been to. Most of the artists I saw here in Japan where mostly 50 years old up, judjing by the wrinkles on their faces and white hairs, which for me is not far off. I would like to see more young people doing outdoor drawings. I have a friend in Singapore who joins an urban sketching group there, maybe there are more young people in Singapore who love to sketch the outdoors.