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Victoria's avatar

Early congrats as you reach the milestone! I'm glad to have been here since the early years 😊

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Jillian Hess's avatar

I so appreciate it, Victoria!

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Tim Baynes Painter and Writer's avatar

Third anniversary! Well done and here is the submission in your call for notes. My journey around Albania a month or two back. Touring the country and serving and commenting and making drawings along the way a very special part of the world. Again I am celebrating the privilege of travel which is the meaning of this share nowadays.Here is the link https://tim-baynes-art.paperturn-view.com/?pid=ODg8897922

and a PDF is freely and quickly available to you as well plus JPEGs so anything you particularly want to see.

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Ishita Singh's avatar

This is fantastic! I visited Albania in 2022 with my (now) husband for 3 weeks. It was our first proper trip together and we fell in love with the country. I really like your drawings and how creatively you’ve expressed your observations. I love to do that too but some where between doing so much work and projects, my vacations turned into workations and I wasn’t able to tune in fully. Thank you for sharing your practice. I remembered my time in Albania as well and will resume my travel sketching practice this time when i travel to Indonesia in 3 days. 🫶

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Tim Baynes Painter and Writer's avatar

Thank you for your lovely letter. Yes it is a very special and magical country. And I will shortly "serialise" my journey on Substack. Meanwhile if you ever want to get a PDF of my sketchbook it's not too big to send an email. Or you can download it from my website Tim Baynes Art. Oh yes you must get out sketching. Seven years at Microsoft and I always carried a sketchbook I'd just get to my training sessions (which I delivered) an hour early and do a drawing. Then I'll be drawing at supper engagements.. In end my colleagues just learn to be very cool with it and if I wasn't drawing they'd be worried!

Blessings on you and your husband and keep safe. Warmest wishes Tim

And God bless Substack for connecting us all xx

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Simon Heather's avatar

Congratulations with Noted, Jillian. I would really be at a loss without your newsletter. I’ll send you a picture of the pile of notes for my novel. Looking at it all piled up on top of each other makes me think ‘how the hell did I get through this?’ I think we spoke before about the fact I can’t keep notebooks. This is directly linked to my mental disabilities, it’s a long story that I’ll tell you one day, but the only way I can get words of of my head is if they are written on the cheapest bit of paper I can find. I’ve tried so many notebooks and note taking methods but pen or pencil on an A4 sheet of paper stored in a box it’s the only way.

Congratulations again with filling three years with your ideas. Please keep going.

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