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As a way to get the creative juices flowing, you’ll find a lot of breakfast sketches here. Scans made from journaling pages.

Bistrot life
Breakfast in Inktober
Café croissant
Desert
Food journal
French breakfast
In the kitchen
Those damned sardines!
sketch of truffel and village of Ménerbes in Luberon, Provence, in travelogue
Vines
Panzanella
Breakfast in Bonnieux

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World citizen with a notebook in hand to write, sketch and tell stories with all senses present.

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Street corners of Ses Salines and Colònia de Sant Street corners of Ses Salines and Colònia de Sant Jordi on Mallorca. Peaceful places away from mass tourism but slowly becoming the place to be?  #travelsketchbook #urbansketchers #mallorca #journaling #mapillustration #artjournal #moleskine #uskspain #carnetdevoyage
Reading ‘Vivre en Provence’ by Jean-Paul Cléb Reading ‘Vivre en Provence’ by Jean-Paul Clébert (1926-2011), the Jack Kerouac of French literature. I may assume that, according to his description, I’ve drawn his house in Oppède-le-Vieux several times. Another rather bizarre coincidence, I wrote a text on the façade as if to say: this was the house of a writer. #intuition ?  Most people will think of Peter Mayle when referring to life in Provence. I would rather recommend Clébert. Not as romantic as Pagnol, no tung-in-cheek anecdotes as Mayle, but the real stuff in a beautiful but sometimes harsh environment. Unfortunately less known and hard to find in translation, but for me Clébert is right up there with Giono and Bosco.  In my project involving the stone quarry of Oppède and the olive oil mill Saint Augustin, the principles of Clébert are a guide. I so discovered that the Situationist movement (Guy Debord) based their theory of the ‘dérive’ on his writing. More on that later.  First picture: my sketches from 2012-2013 with a 1977 edition of the book. Second picture: a newspaper clipping with portrait of the author from 1988 at the occasion of the award ceremony of the Grand Prix Litteraire de Provence.  #documentarysketching #urbansketch #provence #oppedelevieux #luberoncoeurdeprovence #writer #travelsketchbook
Ola! Lacking time makes for quiet layouts. Maybe a Ola! Lacking time makes for quiet layouts. Maybe a good lead to follow and escape from the horror vacui in my journals.  #urbansketchers #journaling #moleskinesketchbook #mallorca #Alaro #carnetdevoyage #sketchbook
Sketching in Palma and Pollença. Liked the semi a Sketching in Palma and Pollença. Liked the semi art nouveau lettering on a shop window meaning ‘oven’ in Spanish. But temperatures were OK, 25*C is perfect 👍🏼😎  #urbansketchers #mallorca #carnetdevoyage #palmademallorca #pollença
A special occasion demands a special script and le A special occasion demands a special script and lettering.  #weddinglettering #scriptlettering #congratulations #provencestyle #provencewedding #customlettering
Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to do so Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to do some lettering. Yes I do! (from time to time.)  #weddingcalligraphy #weddingcalligrapher #lettering #script #provence #dippen #provencestyle #congratulations
Warming up for a day of designing. No fancy tools. Warming up for a day of designing. No fancy tools. BIC says they bring simplicity and joy to everyday life. That might well be the case with those four color ballpoint pens. That’s how I remember them from my school days anyway, the only thing that was fun 😋  #BICyourday #journaling #artjournaling #lourmarin #provence #luberon #sketchbook #traveljournal
The cultural artefact During walks near Oppède-l The cultural artefact  During walks near Oppède-le-Vieux, but equally in other areas between the Luberon and the Monts de Vaucluse, it is not inconceivable that you will find stones with inscriptions or sculpted into some rough shape.  These artefacts provide information about the culture of their creators and users. I wondered what I could do with it in my visual research and deep mapping project.  I found the answer in a quote I noted reading John Berger: "The drawing goes on every day. It is that rare thing that gives you a chance of very close identification with something, or somebody, who is not you ."  On the second slide, you can see part of the stroll in a typical Provencal landscape that must not have looked so different in the 12th century. The sketches are of artefacts found nearby. They are small and sort of a record of the experience for later use.  #deepmapping #provence #luberon #oppedelevieux #johnberger #hybriddrawing #sketchdaily
Friday afternoon, good time to mix work with pleas Friday afternoon, good time to mix work with pleasure. Visit of the winery of Ridley Scott in #oppede. Thank you for the warm welcome @mas_des_infermieres  #journaling #winery #provence #ridleyscott #sketchbook #sketchaday
A passage (Animation on second slide) It would be A passage
(Animation on second slide)  It would be disrespectful to compare lay brothers and stonecutters with wild boars. But as they say, where there is a will, there is a way. And they certainly had that in common.
The Abbey of Sénanque (12th-13th C.) took about 60 years to build. The distance from the stone quarry in Oppède-le-Vieux to the yard on the river Sénancole is approximately 17km on foot. What once started as a forest path must have quickly grown into a decent road. Along the way, the landscape most certainly was thoroughly reformed by the continuous transport of stones.
I'm just speculating when I see the breach in the dry stone wall where wild boars, coming from the mountain, have made a passage to look for water in the valley during dry periods.
Once the goal is in mind, everyone chooses the easiest and shortest route. No matter what.
"Time is change; we measure its passage by how things alter." ~ Nadine Gordimer, writer, Nobel Prize for literature 1991
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On the practical side, this video is a self-running animation of an otherwise static presentation. Trying to get a hang of this #hybriddrawing style while illustrating short stories, thoughts, findings and what else, during my #deepmapping project.  Hope you like it. Comments are welcome!  #luberon #provence #oppedelevieux #drystonewall
Searching for the soul & spirit of place Dry ston Searching for the soul & spirit of place  Dry stone walls are the oldest man built structures you can find in the Luberon. They now serve as a record of crucial moments in the history of this region. Quite a few are still intact today and if you go for a walk you will witness some extraordinary phenomena. Like this oak that worked its way through the wall to finally swallow the stones almost completely. (video on the last slide)  The most amazing part is the fact that no man has touched this process for a very long time.  #deepmap #hybriddrawings #deepmapping #mapmaking #luberoncoeurdeprovence #oppedelevieux #spiritofplace #provence #drystonewall #map #mapillustrator #luberon
Collecting interesting material for a project goes Collecting interesting material for a project goes very fast. Despite proper preparations, my laptop has become a mess. Videos, audio, photos, texts and drawings are everywhere. Unrelated. Another problem is the presentation of the material. Without templates, I won't be able to keep this project clear and engaging for an audience. Transforming my notes into a multimedia publication is more difficult than first thought. And the more apps I use, the more complex the handling becomes. I will have to simplify and make difficult choices. Otherwise, technology and management will take over. It could even put the goal of this project aside. Letting go of control and letting things run their course is a better approach, but I'm afraid I'm not made that way.  Apps I'm currently using in this project: Devonthink, Keynote, Davinci Resolve, Notes, Hemingwayapp, Affinity suite, Filmic Pro, VSCO, LumaFX, iMovie. There's more, and that's a problem.  Paper and pencil, what a relief!  #deepmap #geopoetics #journaling #luberoncoeurdeprovence #provence #oppedelevieux #sketchoftheday #sketchnotes #deepmapping #carrieredeprovence
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