Peru Travel Journal

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I have finished this digital copy of my Peru sketchbook.  You can

flip through the pages here, and check it out.  I will be placing an

order for them...you can let me know by July 15th if you would

like one.  They are $75.00 a copy plus shipping ($8.00).  Thanks!

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Peruvian Artists

I always enjoy buying some original art

when I travel.  And I was delighted to find

so many watercolors down in Peru.  Our

tour director, Edwin, told us he had a friend

named Santos, and that we would meet him in

Cuzco.  Santos is an artist, and he paints in

watercolor and acrylic.  We did meet him, and

most of the group bought a painting from him.

I bought the one of the village.

I also found a little gallery in Aguas Calientes,

the town at the foot of Macchu Pichu.  I bought

the other watercolor of the field workers there. I

really like it...it is different from many of the

paintings that I saw.  And I also got to see examples

of people in the fields as we traveled around the

country, especially in the Sacred Valley.

nice work

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Sketchbook Time

I have been working in my sketchbook

tonight, finishing up some more pages.

Just a couple more, and I will be

through.  I did a couple of collage pages,

using tickets, some old stamps, a chocolate

bar wrapper, some business cards, a

massage advertisement, (we all had one!),

and a small watercolor of Macchu Pichu

that I bought in a gallery.  The three kinds of

animals we saw: alpaca, llama, and vicuna.

And some watercolors of some of the hard

working women we saw everywhere. 

It was such a diverse and fascinating country.

There were so many interesting subjects to draw

and paint.  I hope that you are enjoying some of

my interpretations and images. 

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