I spent the last three weeks teaching in Metangwe, Kenya. It was an amazing experience and I hope over the next few posts to share the lessons I learned and the images that are seared into my brain and heart. I took my watercolour travel kit, my Pentel water brush and my Moleskine watercolour journal. Inspired my the many urban sketchers, I attempted to capture the new world around me. The women of Kenya are hardworking, resourceful and talented. I was fascinated by the way they were able to carry water or other burdens on their head, sometimes while talking on their cell phone! Even very little girls are able to perform this feat–you can see them practising in the evenings on their way back from the watering hole.
Welcome home! So happy to see you back in this space…..and so looking forward to hearing more of your adventures. From your e-mail and posts it sounds like it was amazing. Hope your return to regular life is a smooth transition.
xxoo
P.S. please don’t start hooking for a few more days – I’m not quite caught up to you, but hope to soon be finished my 3rd side… 🙂
Love the photos but am especially attracted to your water colours. You use a minimum of line and colour to convey a maximum of what you were seeing. Wow!
I love the way you paint! you have the porportion very easily!