Merry Christmas folks!

Christmas Eve is always at my parents home. The dinner is the typical codfish with cabbage, olive oil and vinegar!

Christmas Eve is always at my parents home. The dinner is the typical codfish with cabbage, olive oil and vinegar! Because I have a big family with a lot of young cousins, there is fun all the time. In the top is a part of them (from left to right): my brother Pedro, then my cousin Rita with santa reindeer horns and Nuno, my two other cousins Carla and Alexandre, my godfather José and the last one is my uncle Carlos.

Family portrait

On Christmas day we normally pass all day with family again, but this time is in my uncles house. At the end of the day I had done some portraits. In the top there is my goddaughter Inês and my grandmother Cândida, next is my father António and my uncle Carlos, my mother Glória and uncle Cecília and at the end is my cousin Joana.

Luís Simões
Luís Simões

In 2012 I started a World Sketching Tour and since then, this has been my lifestyle. More intense, more for others, more open on how to look and judge. The tour made me get out of routines and safe places, which often leave me numb just seeing life go by slowly. Sketching has aroused my curiosity for “what will it be like on the other side of the mountain?”.

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