Observations from a professional classical composer. Saturday, 7 June 2008. Warm greetings from Orlando! A full six months since my last newsletter. Not slackness, I promise! I have just been - and still am - very busy composing.

Painting equipment for plein air. A trip to Boston and Maine, travel sketches. Some of my travel sketches, most of them are done in restaurants or when we are waiting for transportation. I name them for the place where they were done and the sketchbooks become travel diaries. I paint them in Holbein sketchbooks and I use a winsor and newton travel box for my paints with a couple of DaVinci sable travel brushes. Chili Duck, crispy pad thai.

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Christopher Marten, Jan Marten, Stefanie Marten, Jenna Marten. New to the blogging thing. Be patient with an old dog learning new tricks.

MDF, Mahogany, Black Treacle.