We sketchers have crawled from under our winter hibernation rocks and are quickly hitting full stride. Yvan invited us to come to his house to draw in his garden, which is his entire yard as he’d rather have plants and flowers than grass – just another reason I like Yvan so much.
He also served us mint tea and scones and took photos of us. I thought I’d share those (the photos, we ate all the scones) with you as I’m terrible at taking photos during sketching sessions and want to take advantage of Yvan’s photos to show you some of our sketching community.

Somehow we all ended up in the same place and Yvan snapped this photo through the fencing. In order, it’s little (ok, not so little) me, Celine, Claudette, and Fernande.
Even in this day of selfies, Yvan didn’t take a photo of himself so I’m including one that I took of him during another sketchcrawl we did.
So this post doesn’t run on too long, I’ll post only one of the sketches I did during this day. More tomorrow.
I enjoyed this larry, seems like a delightful day for one and all. The irises are beautiful.
A short post maybe but full of wonderful happiness.
Glad you enjoyed it, Lynne. — Larry
What a wonderful man to invite you guys to sketch in his garden. Everybody looks to focused on their chosen subjects. You Irises are lovely Larry.
True, Yvan is pretty special. He’s been my mentor for most of my sketching life. — Larry