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  • Imprint: Formac Publishing Company Limited
  • Publication Date: 22 September 2017
  • Copyright Year: 2017
  • ISBN: 9781459504769
  • Page Count: 128
  • Dimensions: 6" x 8.05"

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Sketch by Sketch Along Nova Scotia’s South Shore

by Emma FitzGerald

An appealing narrative of encounters with the unique places and people of the South Shore, with Emma Fitzgerald's unique art and storytelling

Just as Hand Drawn Halifax was "a love letter to the city", Fitzgerald's new book takes readers on informal road trips along one of the most renowned parts of Canada.

As Emma Fitzgerald sketches, residents of these communities share their insights and histories. They appear in her whimsical drawings, which portray Nova Scotia's South Shore in every season. You will meet a fourth-generation female sail maker in Second Peninsula, learn the recipe for summertime rose vinegar, and discover how winter Bluenose dark rum is made in Lunenburg. You'll make a springtime visit to Birchtown's Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, and escape the cool autumn weather inside the Sipuke'l Mi'kmaq art gallery in Liverpool.

About the Author

Emma FitzGerald
EMMA FITZGERALD was born in Lesotho, a small mountainous kingdom in Southern Africa, and did most of her growing up in Vancouver, BC. She received a BFA in Visual Art at the University of British Columbia, spending her third year at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where she honed her drawing skills. She then completed her undergraduate and masters degrees in Architecture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Emma's first book, the bestselling Hand Drawn Halifax, garnered attention in her chosen home city, winning the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice award and the Coast's Best of Halifax award for Best Book in 2016. She lives in Halifax.

Reviews

"The immediacy of her sketches and endearing subject matter will appeal to any inquisitive armchair traveler or urban sketcher."
Murray Dewhurst, Urban Sketcher
"A great gift for anyone summering on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Certainly every bed-and-breakfast in the area should have these on their lending shelf."
Marc Holmes, Citizen Sketcher
"Through her vivid descriptions, one can almost smell the flowers as they sit on the windowsill and feel the rain on one's face. It makes me want to go to the places she describes to experience the things she has and feel them for myself."
Bobbi Pike, Atlantic Books Today

Subjects (BISAC)

ART / Canadian, ART / Individual Artists / Artists Books, TRAVEL / Canada / Atlantic Provinces (NB, NL, NS, PE)

Subjects

Art and Architecture, Art and Architecture: Artists and Artisans, Canadian Travel, Canadian Travel: Nova Scotia, Local Interest, Local Interest: Nova Scotia, Local Interest: Nova Scotia: South Shore

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