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Revel and other pages

Hi Friends!

I want to show you some pages that I recently made despite being too busy on work. Nevertheless, I traveled a lot and so here is REVEL, a small town in Midi-Pyrénées of France, built by Philippe le VI.

I loved the reliefs of its cathedral there:

So I painted it a bit in my watercolor sketchbook :

Together with a fish:

And roses from my daddy that he sent me for my birthday:

And while listening to The Beatles:

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Nîmes Week-end

Hi les ami(e)s ! Last weekend we spent in Nimes, ex outpost of the Roman Empire in France. I've been there once few years ago and even shown something here. But now my brain has changed. Or my eyes. I became too greedy for all these new points of the planet, so full of history and unknown new spirit that every new place gives you every time you're arrive there.

This is my pause at the Place of Herbes, in the Bar de Beaux Arts:

Pitty that I had just a couple of days, since there are so many things to draw, paint and put for good in a head or at least sketchbook .

So there again are some café sketches with some journaling on the run. It's good to have pencils, glue-stick and adhesive tape in the bag! Me and my husband in the bar L'instan T

I want to promise to show all the other things that I saw and drew a little -- streets, restaurants, roofs, gardens, museums of Nîmes -- but I promised Istanbul already, I remember. Also, a month ago I was in Saint-Pétersbourg! Oh Dieu, how I'd LOVE to show it all here! So I promise nothing, but I do keep it all in my mind! SeeU ❤

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Istanbul Moments in pages

5 days in Istanbul with Dad were SOOO good! There's too much different stories, so I'd just show some picture without many words, d'accord? And since I took my carnet there, I made some quick sketches right on place to catch a moment directly.

So for example this spread - School and Cat, breakfast and Blue Mosque

Istanbul sketch sketchbook watercolor travel blog

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Château de Caumont

Do you know 'La Dame de Monsoreau' by Dumas, père?

I know a bit as all the Mousquetaires books from a childhood,

And you know, by chance I came to the castle,
where one of the main personnages, Jean

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Saissac and Fanjeaux

Voilà - some impressions of two little, magic, beautiful and amazing places in Languedoc-Roussillon that I saw this July.
First, the Château de Saissac - a ruined castle, one of the Cathar ones.