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Paraty’s churches
Paraty is a little town, with only a handful of churches. Here are 4 I sketched over my stay. The Santa Rita church, the oldest one in the city. Drawings buildings is fun, but add in a scaffolding and a guy wheeling a … Continue reading
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Tagged brazil, church, location drawings, paraty, suhita, Travel, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch
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Paraty by the Sea
In Paraty, you never forget you are by the sea. There are, of course, the colorful fishing boats (which I sketched a lot ). And then there is this fascinating flooding of the city. Paraty was designed so that the streets are flooded by the … Continue reading
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Tagged big island, boat, brazil, flood, high tide, location drawings, paraty, sketch, Travel, travel sketch, urban sketch, urban sketchers
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The streets of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The streets in the historic part of Paraty are narrow, roughly cobbled and lined with whitewashed houses on both sides. The uniform white of these houses is broken by their colorful doors and windows and terracotta roofs. I sketched them over and … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, brazil, location drawings, paraty, Travel, urban sketchers, watercolor sketch
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