samedi 9 juillet 2016

A quicky travelsketching in the beautiful Okanagan Valley

At the end of june, I headed ouest to the Okanagan Valley for the Wedding of a good friend of mine.  The Okanagan Valley is quite far from where I leave, so I decided to take this opportunity to do a travelsketching trip.

I was slightly nervous as I usually draw buildings and I'm a little afraid of greens...  But I think it went pretty well.  Still need practice, but it wasn't the disaster I was expected.

So I left at 5 in the morning as my flight was at 0730.  I guess I was silly thinking that the traffic at the Champlain Bridge wouldn't be too bad at 6... Hahahahahaha  So I managed to be passed security at 0725....  OUpS!  But no worries, I had just realized that my flight was delayed to 0945.  Yeah I was happy that my flight was delayed.


Sadly it made me miss my connection by 5 minutes in Vancouver.  I had 5 hours to kill...  So I ate this amazing club.

I was slightly tired when I got to my motel, so I decided to stay in and drew it.  It was quite clean and comfy for a motel.  But the price was a little ridiculously expensive ( that being said the hotels were horribly expensive...)


I got to drive a automatic malibu chevrolet.  It was nice, I wanted to clutched for a day, but I got used to it...  So used to it that when I got back to Montreal, I could get why my car didn't want to start...  I forgot to clutch hehehe.


On the first day I drove around and saw an indication for the desert center.  So I went for a visit.


I stopped by the point of view to see the spotted lake, which was nice but the lake wasn't very dry so we were just seeing the beginning of the spot.


I ended up in Osoyoos in a quite little cafe.


There are numerous beautiful beaches.  I stopped for a sketch at the Osoyoos' one.


The next day I hung out with friends that came in the area for the wedding as well.  It was quite nice to have people to hang out but to have my own time for sketching the timing was well balanced.


We visited a Kangaroo farm where I got to old a baby kangaroo!  That was amazing:)


We went too the Grey Monk Winery.   A beautiful place.  We got the tour of the factory and did some tasting.


And we finished the day at the beach relaxing after a very tiring day.


I celebrated Canada day with a nice lunch at the Tinhorn Creek Vineyard with a beautiful view.


Before heading to the wedding visited one more winery, the Dirty Laundry Winery.  The wine was very tasty and the site pretty.


 

Manage to do one drawing at the wedding. It was an amazing location.  And a fantastic wedding.  I had a great time!


We went on a vapour train tour the next day.  Nice scenery and we got robbed by cowboys!


There is a lot of winery in the valley, and there is also loads of fruits stands and, the fruits taste like heaven



That was a quick trip so it's time for my last lunch in the hillside winery.



And well, it ends at the airport.