I was on my way. I'd left my home airport and was at JFK, waiting to board my flight for Iceland. But wait, my passport.... it was gone. GONE. VERY gone.
I, a most meticulous and frequent traveler, obsessive about my passport, had lost it... and then someone must have picked it up and kept it. I, along with my husband, airline, airport, and TSA employees at JFK AND my home airport looked everywhere. Gone.
SO. My husband and I drive to DC Monday for an appointment with the US Passport Agency where, I HOPE, they will give me a replacement one. Then we drive home.
Then, the very next day, we begin again our journey to Iceland. I have rebooked all hotels, flights, etc. exactly the way they were... just seven days later.
Cross your fingers all goes well this time!
This forced hiatus has allowed me to test drive some of the supplies I'd packed to take. I was very eager to try a Strathmore sketchbook with toned gray paper, my new Stillman & Birns Delta sketchbook with heavy-duty cold pressed paper.. and to use again my old trusty favorite drawing tools from art school, Caran d'Ache watercolor crayons. I figure I'll be sketching fast and loose (even more than I usually do) and in inclement weather... so the crayons will be perfect for getting down tones, gestures, textures FAST. I'll use them with other drawing materials, too.
I made sketches from photographs and sketches from my last Iceland trip and from references I found on the internet...just to get the feel of Iceland again. Some of these remind me of my sketches of Norway, which makes complete sense.
Here are some I've done. It will be so interesting, don't you think, to see how the ones done on site will differ from these? These do have, of necessity, a slightly generic feel about them.
Your paintings looks like abstract, and your journey to iceland must be your most memorable ones na...
Posted by: Propylene Glycol | November 03, 2012 at 02:22 AM
Thanks SO much, everyone! I was able, as you've seen, to finally get to Iceland. And what a relief it was.
Dear Lucy, I used the Caran d'Ache watercolor crayons, not the pencils. They worked particularly well on toned paper to create the kind of energy and atmosphere one finds in Iceland. And I was able to get down my responses on paper fast and in color, which is, on a basic level, what sketching is all about.
Posted by: Laura | October 14, 2012 at 10:05 PM
Wow Laura, I love these, they are so full of life and emotion. Wonderful.
Posted by: Mariana | October 04, 2012 at 04:45 PM
love, love the aggressiveness of your lines!
Posted by: Edgar Cabrera | October 02, 2012 at 10:48 AM
laure, hope your journey is better. Sad to read you lost your travel information the way this world is today is kinda scary. Hope all is well and my thoughts and prayers will be with you,
Linda
Posted by: Linda | October 01, 2012 at 02:40 PM
I hope you get there this time. How awful to have your passport stolen, that's my ultimate dread.
Posted by: Sue Pownall | September 29, 2012 at 12:49 AM