Would you like to see what it’s like to take a painting class at Summerhill? I snapped some photos during the “Sketching at Summerhill” workshop I taught yesterday to give you an idea of why so many people make the trip out to my house in Prosperity, Pennsylvania, just to paint for a few hours. […]
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Maine Pebble Sketch with Step-by-Step Tutorial
One of the things I enjoy most about Maine is the rocky beaches filled with stones of varying sizes, colors, and textures. This year, for the first time, I thought I’d try to capture those colorful pebbles in a sketch. Here’s what I came up with…. Ink & watercolor in a 9″ x 6″ hardcover […]
Sketches from Maine!
Maine was WONDERFUL! The lupines were in bloom, the weather was close to perfect, Primrose Cottage was as cute as ever, and the students who joined me for the painting retreats were an absolute joy to be with. Getting to spend two weeks there this year was the icing on the cake. I fell in […]
France Sketchbook – Day 6 – Roussillon
It’s been a busy spring here at Summerhill, and I’ve been doing more planting and mulching than blogging and painting lately, but before I leave for Maine tomorrow, I want to share with you a few of the pages from my Provence sketchbook that I haven’t gotten around to posting here yet. When I last […]
WINNER of the Travel Sketch Kit Giveaway
Congratulations shortybeth! You’re the winner of the tavel sketching watercolor kit GIVEAWAY! Please contact me to claim your prize and tell me what rainbow of colors you’d like in your new travel palette.
GIVEAWAY! Travel Sketching Watercolor Kit
Summer’s almost here and I’ve got travel sketching on my mind, so I thought this might be the perfect time to do a sketch kit GIVEAWAY for you, my loyal Everyday Artist followers. I picked up some goodies when I was at Cheap Joe’s a couple of weeks ago, and they could be yours just […]
Notes from Boone
Last week was a whirlwind of travel and teaching, but I’m back home now and ready to share with you some of the fun that I had teaching a five-day “Sketchbook Journaling Comes to Life” workshop at Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff in Boone, North Carolina. Spring was in full swing as we traveled from western […]
April Calendar Sketch
I had so much fun last month keeping a daily sketched calendar that I decided to continue with the month of April. (Read about my March 2018 calendar here.) Click to enlarge Never one to get stuck in a rut, I changed my layout to reflect the essence of April. It’s a month of high […]
France Sketchbook – Villa Glanum + The Thinking Process Behind Page Design
After a morning spent sketching at Saint Paul-de-Mausole monastery, my students and I enjoyed a wonderful lunch at our hotel, then we gathered for class outdoors under the shade trees in the courtyard. (This post is a continuation of my travel journal postings from a trip to Paris and Provence. As I finish up the […]
Last Chance for Italy!
I have two European workshop tours coming up this fall, one on the island of Sicily… and one in Northern Italy… Both of these exciting 7-day painting workshops still have openings, and the deadline is fast approaching when we will have to decide whether we have enough people to make them happen. My organizers reserved […]
