My new favorite brush
I arrived home from Maui to find that a new brush had arrived to be tested out. The da vinci water colour brush with a silverpoint tip is Fabulous!
The squirrel hair is shaped beautifully and holds a sufficient quantity of water and pigment to enable me to dance across the page. I have...
Extended Time With Plants
My Perpetual Plant Journal elicits and nurtures a totally separate facet of my artwork. It gives me the opportunity to slow down, to take the time to draw carefully first in pencil (though I don't always do so), to work less energetically with my watercolors and to spend precious, extended...
Sketching Habit
Waking up in Maui. I REALLY wish I could sleep on planes. Sketched first in ink with a Kaweco Sport fountain pen followed by watercolor using a waterbrush. Still not out of bed.
Creating the habit of sketching is a wise investment of time. If it were not for my habit (addiction) of sketching...
Designing a Sketchbook Page
Absolutely no rules exist when it comes to designing a page in your sketchbook. Sketchbooks provide the opportunity to discover your own personal preferences when it comes to design.
For me, the design of a page evolves as I add new elements. I maintain a flexibility when it...
Collection of Free Art Videos
Urban sketching in Crockett, CA (2015)
A quick reminder that I have numerous free art videos on both my YouTube Channel and my Vimeo Channel. The links are at the bottom of this page among the other social media links. (Scroll ALL the way down to the black bar at the bottom of the page.)...
Let the Game Begin!
Having completed Part Three of the Pulling the Puddle Mini-course Series, I rummaged through old sketchbooks looking for a specific botanical illustration to use as one of the examples in Part Four - Pulling the Puddle in Small Shapes. I didn't find the sketch I was looking for but I did...
Sketching in St. Ives, UK - Part Three - Twenty Steps
Sketching in St. Ives, UK - Part Three - Twenty Steps
Posted: February 28, 2019
The video above was filmed many years ago on a cold, winter day in Ashville, North Carolina shortly after I invented one of my drawing/painting games. Taking twenty steps and forcing myself to draw something...
Sketching in St. Ives, UK - Part Two
Sketching in St. Ives, UK - Part Two
Posted: February 21, 2019
Part Two of a Twelve Part weekly posting of sketches created while exploring the UK in 2016, 2017 and 2018. These sketches are a sneak preview of the techniques I'll be teaching in Wales this May at Chapel Cottage Studio in...
Sketching in St. Ives, UK - Part One
Sketching in St. Ives, UK - Part one
Posted: February 14, 2019
As a sneak preview of the techniques I'll be teaching in May of 2019 at Chapel Cottage Studio in Abergavenny. I'm posting examples from my travels in Bristol, London, Abergavenny, Swansea, St. Ives and the little stops between....
Before Coffee
October 24, 2018
Most mornings, I pour myself a huge glass of water and pick up a pen or pencil before I do anything else. What I really want to do is pour myself a cup of hot, fresh-brewed coffee and wander through the house or garden checking on my plants as I slowly awaken to the day.
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