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Everyday items in Cuba

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I like to do travel journaling in my sketchbooks. This is a page from one of my Cuba sketchbooks that I completed recently with some of the bits and pieces brought home from my trips. I have fun with trying to make the items are realistic as I can within the ink and watercolor format. The coins, bills and card in this sketchbook spread (11"x8.5"/28cm x 21.6cm) are real size. I like to record the memorabilia of receipts, tickets, pamphlets, maps and odds and ends in my sketchbooks. I will usually mix them in with sketches related to the event. What do you like to record?

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Five Cuban Cuc Bill

A bill of one of the two Cuban currencies. Pesos convertibles or Cucs are what tourists in Cuba use. Ink and watercolor, Stillman & Birn 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" softcover Zeta sketchbook.

A bill of one of the two Cuban currencies. Pesos convertibles or Cucs are what tourists in Cuba use. Ink and watercolor, Stillman & Birn 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" softcover Zeta sketchbook.

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