Some sketches from our weekend trip to Kesroli. We stayed in a real 14th century fort that is now a hotel.
(The brown boy is reading The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.)
This is the view around the fort, which was on a hill in the middle of a valley surrounded by other hills. Just like Mordor.
I’m reading This is not the end of the book.
The brown boy had a fantastic time in Paris last summer.
He began by showing off the only word in his French vocabulary…
Then, he found posters of his favorite bande dessinées auteurs and ate les moules frites
He loved the quaint hotel on the top floor in Montmatre, and soon got used to walking up the hill
Charmed by the Mona Lisa, despite the crowds of Japanese tourists and their cameras, and inspired by Van Gogh,
he spent days drawing in cafés and only pausing to see some of the sights -
I think he will agree that we got enough inspiration for at least a year.
A few weeks ago we took a tiny holiday and went to Mcleodganj in the hills where the Dalai Llama stays.
We were staying at Cloud’s End, a lovely estate between Dharmsala (the lower town) and Mcleodganj (the upper town)
Most of the days were spent hiking up to Mcleodganj.
These two monks spent most of their days in the cafes, we used to meet them every day
Then the monsoon arrived.
**bhajjias – potato fritters
**langurs – monkeys
**It was Lord Dalhousie I think, not Elgin.
Then I stopped drawing.
The Five Rathas were better than I remembered
but not the Shore Temple
We hired bicycles and went for rides. The market on a weekday was such a nightmare –
…no wonder the cows hung out at the beach!
Some drawings for practice:
and a favorite place:
(I don’t have a scanner, and not enough light in my room, hence the image quality)
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