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Sketching Along the Loire River Delta
I started a sketchbook for the simple pleasure of painting the beaches, industrial sites and natural environment near my home in Pornichet, a charming small town on the Atlantic coast of France. Soon, my watercolor sketches revealed a fascinating landscape along the Loire River Delta. In this talk I will share my sketching experience and how this spontaneous project near home eventually became a book that took me farther than I could have ever imagined, first to the prestigious Rendez-vous International du Carnet de Voyage festival in Clermont-Ferrand and now to this edition of Sketcher Fest Edmonds.
Cyrille Briand
Cyrille Briand is a sketcher, watercolor painter and illustrator, living on the Atlantic French coast. He is the author of “Carnet de l’Estuaire,” a travel sketchbook showcasing both tourist and industrial sites along the Loire River delta, and “4 Islands Sketchbook,” about his trips to Corsica, Rhodes, Iceland and Hawaii. Briand joined the Urban Sketchers community in 2017 and founded a local Urban Sketchers chapter for the Saint-Nazaire region in 2019. He teaches workshops focused on outdoor sketching in watercolor. An avid traveler, he looks forward to every trip so he can return home with a new sketchbook full of colorful impressions.
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