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Welcome to my new blog. Well, I say new blog. Actually, it’s the same blog, but in a new location. Moving all the posts from the previous one is going to take a few days. Until that is completed, the old one is still available here. Please Note: Subscribers to the previous blog will need to re-subscribe to this one for new post...

Today has been our last day at sea, and so I’ve run the last of my watercolour classes for his cruise (a gentle little boat scene – something a little easier for them after yesterday’s challenging perspective exercise). My cold is still lingering, with an annoying cough, but I’ve been much better than yesterday. It was also a little cooler...

Despite not feeling up to prancing around in dress shirt and dickie-bow for formal night, and, having lost most of my appetite for the last few days, I still managed to stay up long enough to see us enter the Kiel Canal. The Kiel Canal is basically a shortcut, through Northern Germany, joining the North Sea to the Baltic. It’s...

It’s been a hard day today, with resumption of my classes. Hard because I was still feeling under the weather from last night. I felt a little better this morning, but three intense classes on the difficult subject of Perspective (I had them painting the Church on the Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg) took its toll. By late afternoon, I was...