What used to be Cafe Wednesday has, with a slight drifting of routines, now become Cafe Friday. At present I am carrying a small booklet made from an A3 page of Fabriano watercolour paper, which I stitch together and fold into an old bank bookholder (those were the days!). In the holder I also carry some home made paint dot cards and the obligatory coffee loyalty card.
I made two sketches today to fill up this current booklet, which also includes several pages from my recent trip to Taiwan (more of that later).
A Strawberry Lamington at the Palace Museum in Taipei.
Sketching and drinking coffee at Fu Coffee in Taipei.
Drinking iced coffee and scoffing marscapone and raisin icecream at The Fourth Credit Corporation in Taichung (a very hip repurposed bank building).
leonieandrews 
Lovely free sketches, and I love the stamps that you have in the Taiwan sketches!
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Yes, we are great fans of the stamps found in many Asian countries. Taiwan’s were particularly good and plentiful. Some of the most interesting are from small businesses, not only railway stations and museums.
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I love these – especially of that strawberry on a cake – what do you use for a water container for your brushes?
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These days I carry a small Nalgene bottle with water in it. I also use a real watercolour brush, generally a travel brush which can be easily kept covered in my bag. (Nalgene is a brand of plastic camping bottles which are very leakproof).
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Thank you!
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What a sense of lively everyday life you convey and that cake. Yum.
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Thanks Claudia. That cake was yum! I was surprised to see a style of cake that we generally consider an Australian speciality, rather far away from home.
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I wonder if it tasted the same. I’ve noticed sometimes translated food looks the same but has a little local change to it, taste wise. Which can be fun.
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The taste was pretty much the same, although in Oz, chocolate is the standard flavour.
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Lovely illustrations Leonie..
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Thanks Patti!
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That strawberry cake drawing looks good enough to eat!
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