Montreal to Paris

well the whirlwind tour continues and now we are in europe. we slunk through boston and the beach at provincetown, rocked through Montreal, and now we are in drizzly (but beautiful) Paris. We are enjoying some lazy time recuperating after not much sleep in Montreal for a week, and some major jet lag, but still enjoying all that this great city has to offer...
here are some sketches from the last little while:


flowers, done at the beach in Provincetown, Massachewsetts where we rented a little cottage with my family for a week. I'm not sure why this image popped into my head - maybe some tourist's hawaiian shirt.


done on the plane from Montreal to Paris. We had such a great time in Montreal, from giving Andy the full tour of 'my life' (house where I grew up, the municipal pool, my first school, etc...) to staying out dancing with friends to street festivals and amazing food - it was a great trip, and hard to really sum up. The green mound in the middle is Mount Royal - a mountain in the middle of the city with a cross on top, a but like New York's central park (but on a smaller scale). We climbed it one day and got a great view of the city.


Montmartre, Paris. where it all began. Andy and I met here 11 years ago, and we are staying in the same hostel where we met! we even cooked the same dinner that we remembered cooking together in 1996! (paella out of a box) it's been another run down memory lane and it's been incredible and a bit bizarre. who knows where we'll be in another 11 years...!
please also see my post for this week's illustration friday word 'camouflage'...

I-F: Camouflage

I think those critters are pretty well camouflaged...

inspired by the curtains in our bedroom of our hostel, on a rainy Paris day.

USA to Mexico and back again.

Hello from Boston! It's been a while since I've posted. it's pretty crazy, this travelling thing. Planes, buses, subways, hostels, packing, unpacking, carrying, lifting, navigating, maps.... oy vay! and that's just getting there! we've had a fantastic time but it's nice to once again have a bit of break from all that, as we are now at my brother's house in Boston and able to draw a breath. (in between entertaining my 2 year old niece, that is. at least she takes naps!)

so here are some of the sketches I've done along the way that I haven't had a chance to post. also please see the next post for this week's illustration friday. enjoy!

1. roadtrip across the states

2. first sketch in mexico. many of the ancient pyramids were built according to the moon and sun

3. dia de los muertos - a very important day in Mexico

4. love cactus

5. back to the US - New York windows

I-F: My Paradise

We just went to paradise 2 weeks ago. In the south of Mexico, in a tiny little fishing town called San Augustinillo, we found it.

a breezy open-air cabana, warm weather and warm water, a comfortable bed and hammock, soft sand and fresh fish, and where the turtles now swim freely.

San Augustinillo once relied on the poaching of turtles ('tortugas' in spanish) as its main commerce, until it was banned in the early 90's. they had to find some other way to make a living, so tourism became very important, and that's why we were able to find a dreamy little cabana by the beach in a town most Mexicans haven't even heard of. we were there for 5 days, but we could have stayed there forever.

i did these sketches of 'tortugas' there (among others) while swinging in the hammock, and while Andy composed music on our little deck. it was, decidedly, paradise.