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THE BIG BLUE SKETCHBOOK:

First Images from a month in Spain...

My chum George and I went to Spain.  He was cycling the 'camino' to Santiago de Compostela.  I fell in love with an Almond Tree in the Rioja (near to Marqués de Riscal) and elsewhere it rained a lot... 

Here are some sketches...

• In Navarra

• My Almond Tree in the Rioja

• The Rain in the Plain

• The Planes of the Canal du Midi

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Each page is A3 and most images are double-page spreads.

The drawings are mostly graphite or charcoal, and/or pierre noir; or ink in a Japanese brush-pen.

IN NAVARRA

  pp.2/3

  pp.4/5

pp.6/7

p.9    pp.10/11

pp.12/13

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"JB hugs his almond tree": cliché Layton

MY ALMOND TREE IN THE RIOJA...

p.17 

pp.18/19

pp.22/23

AND CLIMBING MY ALMOND TREE IN THE RIOJA...

pp.35, 43 & 45: Climbing my Almond Tree for a new look at the Rioja...

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THE RAIN IN THE PLAIN...

  p.27

  pp.30/31

  pp.38/39

  p.41

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THE PLANES OF THE CANAL DU MIDI...

p.84/85: Tall trees by the Canal du Midi

& p.87: The Canal du Midi, from the Hôtel Bristol, Carcassonne

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