Deborah's Sketchbook: Japan of Long Ago II
Click on the pictures to enlarge them.____________________________________________________________________________________________Tokyo - Tea...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: Hector
Click on the pictures to enlarge them._____________________________________________________________________________________________He is about as long as my hand if you count his tail; his breast is...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: Le Café du Rendez-Vous
Click on the pictures to enlarge them."We’ll have twelve fines de claire No. 3 oysters each," Dmitri-the-gilder specified to a waiter at the Café du Rendez-Vous ten years ago one mid-June evening. "And...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: Babou the Donkey
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View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: Between Past and Future
"Perceval"Lead pencil on paper. Click on the picture to enlarge it._______________________________________The year draws to a close, and one takes stock of what must be consigned to the past, and what...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: Paris Brest
Click on the pictures to enlarge them.Cliquer sur les images pour les aggrandir. The day that I opened the Parisian pastry-shop door, I was a young American tourist with a camera. I smiled at a young...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: A Cat's Nature
Click on the picture to enlarge it.She is conscious of being a very beautiful black cat, black as ink, and knows she must seem a largish splash of black ink on the couch until she opens lovely amber...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: More About a Cat's Nature
Click on the pictures to enlarge them.When it comes to understanding cats, there is an important principle to bear in mind: they can’t stand being on one side of a closed doorIt all begins when you...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: Rendering in Chiaroscuro
Torso, by Deborah Mends I have been absent from this blog for most of this year, work having taken the lion's share, illness having taken the rest. At home whlle my body recovers its health, my...
View ArticleDeborah's Sketchbook: A Japanese Theme
A number of Japanese objects gathered in a composition of chiaroscuro. The amulet comes from Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura (uh - if I am not mistaken), and has been bringing blessings for 25 years.
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