The nights are drawing in (no pun intended)

 I can't believe that I'm sitting here in the dark already. Also how long it has been since I last posted. 
I have been to Venice this month, where I enjoyed urban sketching; now I am inspired to do more at home....hmmm..... been here before. The first was done while sipping Prosecco at canal side bar on the first evening when we were unaware of the mosquitoes -- o dear!. The second was a quick sketch in Florians while enjoying the most heavenly hot chocolate ever ( an I could soak up the history too) and the photo at the end shows what I was looking at. Next we went to the Guggenheim and this sketch is from waiting for coffee in the outside cafe. We gave p in the end and went instead to a local cafe and had another wonderful hot chocolate. I am definitely going to find out how to make these and add them to my Christmas food and joy. Another day we were, again in a cafe, this time drinking red wine, int eh ghetto and the final sketch is on Burano, behind the pretty coloured houses, sitting by the water.

I am currently enjoying using my pin board, 'Blue and White' to copy antique Delft tiles and make them into coasters to sell at the Hull Christmas Fairs in Humber Street soon.