I am just starting to feel semi-decent again after being sick (read: invalid) for the past week. I haven’t had a bad cold for a few years so I guess I was due for one! I only had the desire to start drawing again yesterday. I started off only wanting to do a “quick sketch” […]
Sunday, November 28, 2010
I finished my submission for the Virtual Paintout (set in Rio de Janeiro) just in time. I skipped October and I didn’t want to miss this month as well. Instead of doing something really detailed and time consuming, this is more of a sketch made up of lots of lines. I really enjoy participating in […]
Friday, November 19, 2010
Art Every Day Month is going well so far. I am so thankful for all the kind comments — it is such an encouragement for me. I also have twenty-five out of fifty drawings/paintings completed for NaNoDrawMo. I have been counting the small watercolors as part of NaNoDrawMo just because of the time involved, but […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
After I painted this yesterday, I looked through some of the other watercolors that I had done recently. It occurred to me that I’ve been using a lot of blue and green. It is a color combination that makes me feel very happy. But, part of the reason is that I accidentally squeezed out way […]
This is a view of the Connecticut River as seen from the French King Bridge, one of the many special places in Western Massachusetts. I reworked this colored pencil sketch from last year to make this painting. I do a lot of work in ink and watercolor but this was definitely an experiment in a […]
Saturday, October 30, 2010
I’m sorry about the issues I’ve been having with my feedburner feed recently. The first post was my mistake, but I’m not sure why it sent out another email for an old post this morning. I have a lot of things that I want to do before the end of the year, so I’ve been […]
Saturday, October 23, 2010
This is a small (5 x 7) painting I did from a photo I snapped during my trip to Ogunquit, Maine this past August. This area is a salt marsh where the Ogunquit River meets the ocean. It was really interesting to see how this same scene changed with the tides (it was close to high […]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
This sketch was meant as a practice sketch for a painting that I have been meaning to do for some time. I took out my Tombow markers for it, which I don’t use too often. They are fun to work with as they have both a brush and fine line tip and I have about […]
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
I’ve only been to New York City a handful of times, and only once in the past ten years, despite living only a few hours away. I guess I’m just more of a country person. I’ve never been to Central Park as far as I remember, but I think I would like to visit if […]
This is a quick reminder that I am hosting a giveaway of the first three issues of The Beany by Michael Nobbs until August 26 at 9 pm EST. Click here to enter. This is my submission for the Virtual Paintout centered in Prince Edward Island, Canada for August. So far this month there have […]