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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday was a really wonderful day on the hill of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro. I met Suhita Shirodkar, Lynne Chapman, Beliza Mendes, Marc Taro Holmes and Laurel Holmes, and so many other wonderful sketchers early in the morning, and it was a non-stop sketching marathon all day into the the evening as we listened to Samba music, watching some very serious, lovely samba-dancing couples.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What an utter priveledge to have had these TWO incredible opportunities...I have learned so much. I will do post-trip posts of the trip!</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll finish my NIAUSI walking guide to Civita once back in Seattle, and the symposium--well, what a whirlwind of meeting people, sketching, workshops!!  It was truly an honor to get to be here as an instructor, truly an honor to get to sketch with and watch some of the most amazing sketchers in the world (who are also very nice people) in action...soooooo great to be part of the USk community.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to Seattle tonight, and as great as this has been, I will be so very happy to see my family and friends.  Obrigada...</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj01NXZaNUTmlFlgM_NdSBWzaS2p1gRMjUMNt_NlLY23DVnK8g1j_xobdHTpM54XgJ3P6ggcBT8q1cnms8HQf7asgVoGvOPwa36RLAcIV1nuF2nu4Bkir-pVqQbPSSXzZb8l2j-wpDz60w/s1600/10389693_683991911691152_3548396373635694814_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj01NXZaNUTmlFlgM_NdSBWzaS2p1gRMjUMNt_NlLY23DVnK8g1j_xobdHTpM54XgJ3P6ggcBT8q1cnms8HQf7asgVoGvOPwa36RLAcIV1nuF2nu4Bkir-pVqQbPSSXzZb8l2j-wpDz60w/s1600/10389693_683991911691152_3548396373635694814_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">First 180 Degrees Workshop waiting out the rain...we had to move to 4 different spots as the rain stopped and started,<br />making things very challenging for all--thanks workshop folks, for your patience and understanding!  Thanks Fred Lecomte<br />for this great photo.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofoT4QLTBTq1xSD54WiCsc4MGpG_tF2X1tjXhaBcStcwlaoFY33CyVf22CFl1RLyb5PrmQ8HuKt2tuqYhImqX8D-vzhUn0fK1_UhsFdqsUPLXpOBPEAteEMGG0b32s5QKNSpbqIs714E/s1600/10617684_10154494402620244_2104594466_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhofoT4QLTBTq1xSD54WiCsc4MGpG_tF2X1tjXhaBcStcwlaoFY33CyVf22CFl1RLyb5PrmQ8HuKt2tuqYhImqX8D-vzhUn0fK1_UhsFdqsUPLXpOBPEAteEMGG0b32s5QKNSpbqIs714E/s1600/10617684_10154494402620244_2104594466_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tia Boon Sim's selfie--one of many--of our group traveling by van from Sao Paulo to Paraty.  With Tia's Husband, Ch'ng Kiah Kiean, Jason Das, Joni Vallon, Genine Carvalheira-Gehman</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, Keesung Song, and our happy driver.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjVy7LY9vCads_KgFX4DC3pl2dVzcf43eICNkBe37wFN62QGVIzLA6SFOdAIa87ZaGt6NQ5KfZ1woWsDCNT8faGZWri7PYEGVJuYoWGcmY9rq2oGW5Dk2xHONZ8Yxis7-FjEP1mqLSRA/s1600/10660742_10154513093450244_186903622_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjVy7LY9vCads_KgFX4DC3pl2dVzcf43eICNkBe37wFN62QGVIzLA6SFOdAIa87ZaGt6NQ5KfZ1woWsDCNT8faGZWri7PYEGVJuYoWGcmY9rq2oGW5Dk2xHONZ8Yxis7-FjEP1mqLSRA/s1600/10660742_10154513093450244_186903622_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Another Tia selfie, this time with also with Richard Almodovar and Gabi Campanario, at the end of the symposium.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjCXRk1UXjt-afR6Z8MaXER7XI2Jl5sQgi3L87iWo8D0096YcCP3_TXFZcGiug6HfAedTOeOTZqkpC9pGzPWJY2NdUxiZJ6Rd26L2FjoTTxkrleNbb0GlUzk-cbxnymrrBKfxYQsNp2Y/s1600/IMG_0931.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjCXRk1UXjt-afR6Z8MaXER7XI2Jl5sQgi3L87iWo8D0096YcCP3_TXFZcGiug6HfAedTOeOTZqkpC9pGzPWJY2NdUxiZJ6Rd26L2FjoTTxkrleNbb0GlUzk-cbxnymrrBKfxYQsNp2Y/s1600/IMG_0931.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Sketching in Rio de Janeiro after the symposium, a group including Suhita, Marc Taro Holmes and his wife Laurel, Lynne Chapman, Beliza Mendes and others...all amazing and wonderful sketchers--</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyg48DTpD8pwgFaeqXmDL0iNj6TTW2O8_FatRGREzLF-0kw1qSyH6ThEXyD37Y7IX0LRCBhbIV2682NrUOek34JCcJOalreQlF4GOL5kEB_OoNkcMSazrZn4MPXPOVLbb18HNJMw0eYQ/s1600/IMG_0790.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcyg48DTpD8pwgFaeqXmDL0iNj6TTW2O8_FatRGREzLF-0kw1qSyH6ThEXyD37Y7IX0LRCBhbIV2682NrUOek34JCcJOalreQlF4GOL5kEB_OoNkcMSazrZn4MPXPOVLbb18HNJMw0eYQ/s1600/IMG_0790.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Overcast evening along Copacabana beach, not too far from my hotel.  Roberto Burle Marx designed this boardwalk.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPFUS2DHmQMKRrc4yhTSYYuV6_rYGeQ5sjqNirWubuW5W4LzkG4hL_6y7szj-lGavwt9R4KUAsTk24ApJXbNVYVPW2lNAV2MdNhAZHvuygcjJvg7JQfKScaXtbVa8h3Aj_A-WKaVIx98/s1600/IMG_0852.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Happy sketchers along the Santa Teresa steps in Rio.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPFUS2DHmQMKRrc4yhTSYYuV6_rYGeQ5sjqNirWubuW5W4LzkG4hL_6y7szj-lGavwt9R4KUAsTk24ApJXbNVYVPW2lNAV2MdNhAZHvuygcjJvg7JQfKScaXtbVa8h3Aj_A-WKaVIx98/s1600/IMG_0852.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666;"></span></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7aagsw_Un7IXutaTWCN9LUnZtME9BJqBy9CLjuq1upUeAtJZOjtv9IHN9oVkYA9h__wyzjOKA7Xu4JQpHcGDn28lOd1tXUTjlj7sFXuBufHrLFwZuqhuIUlE0ns4dzn46zj2jef2gDC0/s1600/IMG_0866.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">My only view of Sugar Loaf on this trip...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7aagsw_Un7IXutaTWCN9LUnZtME9BJqBy9CLjuq1upUeAtJZOjtv9IHN9oVkYA9h__wyzjOKA7Xu4JQpHcGDn28lOd1tXUTjlj7sFXuBufHrLFwZuqhuIUlE0ns4dzn46zj2jef2gDC0/s1600/IMG_0866.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666;"></span></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjoBQtXFIpMt0kzQaknhvjUU77V5AXZRGhR1HiCZ5DYOtShLGbuSxrB5lZaLH7lBcVeMU2rE85DfEyf-b49YS7tkeKdV0s8hMZSXlf89svnYheAEVqR4f30HeyWtXlT7iUb2a9-H6oUAk/s1600/IMG_0914.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjoBQtXFIpMt0kzQaknhvjUU77V5AXZRGhR1HiCZ5DYOtShLGbuSxrB5lZaLH7lBcVeMU2rE85DfEyf-b49YS7tkeKdV0s8hMZSXlf89svnYheAEVqR4f30HeyWtXlT7iUb2a9-H6oUAk/s1600/IMG_0914.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Sketch of the hillside while descending Santa Teresa hill in Rio...dust and wind were blowing hard,<br />my watercolor palette is literally full of dirt, twigs, flowers, as was my hair...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygaH0ZZ6-3hIzTMWfpcYsoPZRIFxymucAQzX43F0tVJDkRrWAdSN-bvcdhSR78JfsJWCOJsZ4Oz3-qylXZCqYpG6FhtM6ZJrFfrDsnwzcFZHUBAebV_bvLr7qk0eln_vQv-_j2Gf0erU/s1600/IMG_0529.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">One really good day of sun, and it was the perfect day, as a group of us went out on a boat around Paraty and had<br />fish lunch on the beach, toes in the sand.  With a big group (I'm sorry I don't remember all the names!), including Suhita Shirodkar, Jason Das, Geninie, Mona, Jenny, Jessie Chapman, Beliza Mendes...what a great day, ending in a huge wind storm that knocked out power in the entire area for 13 hours the next day...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygaH0ZZ6-3hIzTMWfpcYsoPZRIFxymucAQzX43F0tVJDkRrWAdSN-bvcdhSR78JfsJWCOJsZ4Oz3-qylXZCqYpG6FhtM6ZJrFfrDsnwzcFZHUBAebV_bvLr7qk0eln_vQv-_j2Gf0erU/s1600/IMG_0529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #666666;"></span></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOQjh44_lQKzUFwJpjBEjKoAZ5JnUNntXV-yzl_mi_3lNZAv5ibTo_4k3ysqWKIhhzs4b72rmisUJ0YOBTibAoapiw3LAbDhRORY01zxD4cEvDb9aQC1yA-MGeXVd5sk4sk_e1yUoN9k/s1600/IMG_0474.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnOQjh44_lQKzUFwJpjBEjKoAZ5JnUNntXV-yzl_mi_3lNZAv5ibTo_4k3ysqWKIhhzs4b72rmisUJ0YOBTibAoapiw3LAbDhRORY01zxD4cEvDb9aQC1yA-MGeXVd5sk4sk_e1yUoN9k/s1600/IMG_0474.jpg" width="360" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">My donation to the end of symposium auction--thanks to the <br />person who bought it and made a contribution to Urban Sketchers!<br />This was at the start of the auction, the price went UP!  :)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />

Last Full Day of the 2.5 month Trip

Yesterday was a really wonderful day on the hill of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro. I met Suhita Shirodkar, Lynne Chapman, Beliza Mendes, Ma...

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, long time since I could write...I left Rome on August 24, flew to London, then to New York JFK where my 10:00pm flight to Sao Paulo was CANCELLED...they put us up in a raunchy hotel outside the airport, and I didn't get to bed until 5:30am Italy time.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got the flight at 11:30am the next day, flew to Sao Paulo, arrived in Sao Paulo, got the van to Paraty which took us over 5 hours (travelling in VERY good and talented company)...arrived in Paraty, AT LAST it took about 2.5 days of travel!!</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arriving a day late, I had little to no time to scope out the town--which is lovely--and meet people before the symposium started the next day!  Lots of people here, amazing energy and SO MUCH TALENT!!!!  Really inspiring and intimidating all at once.  Really full and busy days, lots to see and do.  The event, as usual, was so well-organized...USk is pretty darn amazing.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weather was mostly cloudy and very cool, and it even poured during my first and largest workshop.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I woke up every morning on Italy time, around 4:30am here, so was sleep deprived, as were lots of others.  Kumi flew from Japan just for this event, a 12 hour time difference!  Internet bad...and yesterday afternoon, the day after the symposium ended, a huge and very unusual windstorm came in, blowing down trees and power lines...so no power since last night!  Electricity just came on now, about 14 hours later...so I can finally access the internet again.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, the symposium was amazing, I feel so honored and privileged privileged privileged be here and be a part of it.  Thank you, Urban Sketchers!</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow, I go to Rio de Janeiro with three others (hardworking USk president Jason Das, sketcher Joni Vallon, and our default translator from Luxembourg who speaks maybe 7 languages and sketches too--Beliza Mendes), we're going as a group which is super nice.  I will post photos and sketches of the week, working backwards a little bit.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got this photo from Facebook, I think--shows most of the sketchers at the finale of the symposium in the main town square! You'll never find me, as my head is turned, looking at Gabi Campanario behind me to make sure I wasn't blocking his view.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OBRIGADA!</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkCeFsbfERjTg76eXC7emRuF0oMeZUSAch0yrEWheCc-OUZJUN0W9EUpDEipeEA8Zhw1wiR48y6wtpdXCZ2Vip_zXUKgclBg_hK0gRJKOndjG3QV4bNquxb9DsLGkpDaJQYR7d7UDbV-U/s1600/10665726_10152335587871546_590225742032651679_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkCeFsbfERjTg76eXC7emRuF0oMeZUSAch0yrEWheCc-OUZJUN0W9EUpDEipeEA8Zhw1wiR48y6wtpdXCZ2Vip_zXUKgclBg_hK0gRJKOndjG3QV4bNquxb9DsLGkpDaJQYR7d7UDbV-U/s1600/10665726_10152335587871546_590225742032651679_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Last group photo of the Urban Sketchers Symposium 2014 in Paraty, Brazil!!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

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