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Sally Kindberg’s notes from Cornwall
Walrus sighting reported in the nearby Scilly Isles. He apparently floated south from the Arctic on a melting iceberg.
Posted in Notebooks, Travels
Tagged Cornwall, drawing smells, drawing sounds, geothermal pool, Gulval, handwriting, map, Mounts Bay, Mousehole, Newlyn, notebook drawings, notebook pages, Penzance, Penzance Jubilee Pool, sea creatures, seaside, synaesthesia, travel notes, walrus, walrus sighting. Scilly Isles
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Penzance and St Ives visit
It was 32 degrees in London recently, pollution levels were high and I began to croak and wheeze. I just had to get away and breathe some sea air. That’s my excuse anyway. I checked the weather forecast, packed a … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Travels
Tagged Admiral Nelson, Alfred Wallis, Battle of Trafalgar, blue, Blue Seas bed and breakfast Penzance, Cornwall, Great Western Railway, Jubilee Pool, light fittings, Patrick Heron, Penzance, seaside, seaside views, seaside visits, St Ives, Tate St Ives, unicorns, Union Hotel
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Sally Kindberg goes to Penzance
I decided to travel to Penzance for the weekend even though plans to run a Pirate workshop there had fallen through. It had been difficult week in London including a visit to hospital and a leak from the flat above me, … Continue reading
Posted in Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged coastal, Cornwall, festival, Golowan festival, Jubilee Pool, Mazey festival, mermaids, Mousehole, Newlyn, notebook, Penzance, pirates, seacoast, walking
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Blue notes
My first memory of the sea was more of a sparkle than a colour. Apparently my mother swam all the year round in the benign waters of the Devon coast – our garden sloped down to one of its red … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Family, Travels
Tagged Alfred Wallis, aura, blue, Cornwall, Devon, Elf School, Ellidaar, elves, Evening Standard, Iceland, magic painting book, seaside, St Ives
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Maps
I love maps! Maybe because I’ve a very bad sense of direction, but more because they are full of possibilities. I’ve drawn many illustrated maps for newspapers (including a G2 cover for the Guardian, see below), but mostly for the … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Travels
Tagged Cornwall, Ding Dong mine, Ding Dong moor, maps, Men an Tol, the Independent on Saturday
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Visit to St Ives, Cornwall
“Cornwall is closed!” shouted a harrassed looking railway official at Exeter station. I’d decided to try and get to St Ives despite severe weather warnings, and luckily took some provisions (well, ahem, chocolate for emergencies) with me as the journey … Continue reading
Monsters visit Cornish Libraries
August is carnival time in Fowey in Cornwall, a major event in this part of the world, and my Monster drawing events competed for attention with a giant walnut-cracking crab, the Red Arrows aerobatic team, a huge fancy-dress parade … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Festivals, Travels, Workshops
Tagged Bloomsbury Activity books, Bloomsbury Childrens Books, comic strip workshops, Cornish pasty, Cornwall, drawing events, drawing workshops, Fowey Carnival, Fowey Library, Red arrows, Sally Kindberg's Draw It - Monsters, St Austell Library
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