09 October 2005
Phew, back in sunny old England. Well, partly cloudy old England.
I never did find any shops selling fabric, which was a slight disappointment in an otherwise fabulous holiday. We went to a couple art stores, though, where I bought various pens (I left my waterproof drawing pen at work, I think -- who only has one favourite drawing pen?) and the above notepads. Hooray recycled materials!
I had to stop myself from buying up the store's entire stock of the Sodica notepads. The largest one is coloured paper, perhaps for a project in the planning stages. The two A4 are ruled -- one with lines and the other with grid (I love graph paper). The smallest is a lined notebook. The orange thing is made (I think) of recycled rubber; it has pockets for business cards and notes and holds a notepad inside (with graph paper!).
I did a bit of drawing in Portugal, and the sketches above and below are my favourites. (Click the dog to see entire drawing.)
And one last thing -- a funny bird we spotted outside the kitchen window a couple of times. It's a Hoopoe -- in the same order as Kingfishers, but not as cute and blue. An interesting change from river birds, though.
Great work! It is only on a rare occassion that something pleases me more than artwork by an England-dwelling American while visiting Portugal.
posted by Laura at October 11, 2005 12:08 PM
I wish I knew earlier that you were coming to Portugal! I could have given you the addresses of all my favorite shops... Do you know the Crafty Tour of Lisbon group on Flickr?
posted by Rosa at October 14, 2005 02:21 PM
...and that bird's name (in Portuguese, of course) is Poupa :)
posted by Rosa at October 14, 2005 02:24 PM