Went to the Kris Kindle Market in Kitchener, Sunday. We grabbed some potato pancakes went inside city hall and sat and I sketched while munching away. This booth was selling knitted hats and wool.

In 2009 we spent a month in Florence in an apartment just off this piazza. My wife and I would make a lunch and sit on the steps of the church and observe the activity in the piazza and I would sketch. Every day was something different. In this sketch they were setting up tents for a market for the next day. Another day they had a huge set-up for a marathon race. In the photo you will notice a curb like oval. This was the track used for chariot races in the day.

This is part of the throwdown in Victoria Park today with Urban Sketchers Group. Everyone isn’t showing yet but what a great collection of art! Great subject matter!

Sketched the City Hall Clock Tower in Victoria park today with the Urban Sketchers Waterloo Region Group. Great turnout (23 of us) and a marvelous day it was!

This Clock Tower was placed in the park after being stored in the city yards for years, after the demolition of the old city hall.

This is what I worked from.

Out with Urban Sketchers Waterloo Region Group in this marvelous weather today in Victoria Park, Kitchener, Ontario. Sat down in the shade and sketched this formidable lady before meeting up with the other sketchers for our throwdown at The Boathouse.

Another sketch from Lowville, Ont. today. An old school house.

I sketched this monument in a garden of sculptors in Lowville, Ont. today with the Urban Sketchers of Waterloo Region. The title of this piece was “Cocktail Hour”. I had the pleasure of meeting the artist, Walt Rickli and he explained to me the origin of that title. He had observed the shadow falling onto the circles at 5p.m., hence the cocktail hour. Makes perfect sense to me;-)

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This is a sketch I did from the train from Ghent to Brugge. We stayed a week in the town of Ghent and then arranged a tour of Flanders Fields in Brugge….very interesting!

When in Athens some years ago,Anne and I happened to visit the Benaki Museum. To my surprise I came across this watercolour painted by a J. M. Wittmer in 1833. My ancestors  spelled our name with two t’s also. Johann Michael Wittmer was born 1n 1802 and died in Munich in 1880. I also painted the acropolis on the hill, and Anne and I walk among those pillars in the foreground, now a park, which are now surrounded by the city of Athens. Quite a coincidence!