village life – ROVING JAY

Algarve, Portugal

ANNOUNCEMENT

I've closed down my Birds of a Feather Press self-publishing Website, and my Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide Website.

I'm also no longer publishing my Bodrum and Gumusluk Travel Guides.

A Turbulent Mind: A Poetry Collection of a Mother’s Journey with Alzheimer’s

Available in ebook or paperback. This book is a poetic take on my Mum’s journey with Alzheimer’s.

QUICK LINKS FOR SKETCH EVENTS

Click Here for a Roundup of Online PORTRAIT Sketching Events.

Click Here for a Roundup of Online LIFE DRAWING Sketching Events.

Recent Blog Posts

Urban Sketching People at Cafes and a Mobile Screening Unit (Day 71) March 5, 2026
Urban Sketch of a local Pétanque Match and some Portrait Sketches (Day 70) March 4, 2026
One Week 100 People Sketch Challenge March 3, 2026

Destinations

365 Days of Sketching People #3 (64) Alzheimer's (3) Art Room (219) Barcelona (3) Battambang (8) Beach Bum (3) Boatober 2025 (13) Bodrum Peninsula (33) Brazil (6) Cabanas de Tavira (20) California (77) Cambodia (44) East Coast (9) Europe (89) France (15) Greece (7) Half Moon Bay (6) Hermosa Beach (5) Ho Chi Minh City (3) Istanbul (21) Kalymnos (5) La Rochelle (3) London (9) Los Angeles (59) Mar Vista (5) New York (6) Nomad (30) Norfolk (14) Northern California (9) One Week 100 People (5) Online (39) Otres Beach (11) Palm Springs (4) Phnom Penh (11) Portugal (53) Roving Sketchers Series (3) Sao Paulo (6) Siem Reap (17) Spain (12) Tavira (19) The Algarve (7) Turkey (72) UK (35) US (94) Vietnam (3)

Hot Topics

Accommodation (10) Art Tutorial (10) Backpacking Boomers (42) Beach (10) Blind Contour (11) Blogging (9) Boatober (13) Boats (17) Boat Sketch (16) Building Sketch (10) Business Trip (11) Buying a House in Turkey (17) cafe sketching (11) Covid-19 (10) Drawing Earthsworld Challenge (20) Drawing with Dylan (11) Dylan Sara (15) Earthsworld (15) Expat Adventures (89) Flashpacking (40) Guest Article (18) House Sitting (28) House Sitting Tips (13) Ink and Wash (118) Ink and Watercolour (120) Market (16) Our House Sits (19) Pen Sketch (11) Pet Sitting (21) Poem (11) Poetry (11) Portrait (20) Portraits (36) Reportage (19) Roving Project Manager (12) Sightseeing (16) Sketching from Photo (13) Sketching People (101) speed sketching (29) Toulouse USk Symposium 2026 (11) Urban Sketching (87) Urban Sketching Buildings (19) Urban Sketching People (74) Watercolour (23) Workaway (12)

Featured Artist in Relish Portugal Magazine 2022

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ROVING JAY

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Algarve, Portugal

A Turbulent Mind: A Poetry Collection of a Mother’s Journey with Alzheimer’s

QUICK LINKS FOR SKETCH EVENTS

Recent Blog Posts

Featured Artist in Relish Portugal Magazine 2022