Category: Sketchbook Journaling

Enjoying Spring and Planning for Fall

Enjoying Spring and Planning for Fall

Seems like everything’s blossoming, growing, and greening-up time of year. It’s so much fun to walk around the yard every day and discover what poked up through the soil overnight. Echinacea, hosta, and primroses are all growing, and the bleeding heart is covered with buds. The forsythia was spectacular this year – I brought a […]

Crazy for Daffodils!

Crazy for Daffodils!

Daffydowndilly has come up to town, in a yellow petticoat and a green gown.~  Traditional nursery rhyme I taught a lesson on painting yellow daffodils the other day for my April “Sketching at Summerhill” party, and one of my sweet friends who came to paint brought me a gorgeous bouquet of daffodils from her garden. […]

A Change of Season

A Change of Season

Spring is here! Flocks of robins are hopping all over our yard and the snow is finally gone! 8-1/2″ x 11″, ink & watercolor in a Stillman & Birn Beta series sketchbook. Drawings done with a black Pigma Micron 01 pen. Last Friday was officially the first day of spring, and even though the temperatures […]

Travel Sketch Kit + Texas Travel Sketches

Travel Sketch Kit + Texas Travel Sketches

(Continuing my posting of sketches from the Monologue Basics A5 sketchbook that I reviewed here.) My husband and I spent five days in Texas last fall visiting friends in San Antonio. I didn’t think I’d have a lot of time to sketch, so I took a minimum of supplies, but it turned out to be […]

More Random Sketches

More Random Sketches

As promised, here are more random sketches from my Monologue Basics sketchbook… I deviated from my usual technique in this marigold sketch. Instead of doing a line drawing, then painting light, medium, and dark glazes of color, I did a quick initial freehand painting with watercolor, then, after the paint had dried, I did my […]

Impressions of the Monologue Basics Sketchbook + Random Sketches

Impressions of the Monologue Basics Sketchbook + Random Sketches

A few months ago, the Monologue company sent me a few of their sketchbooks to try, and I decided to play around with the A5 hardcover to see how it handles the materials I normally use for sketching: ink, colored pencil, watercolor pencil, and watercolor paints. It measures around 5-1/2″ x 8″, and the paper […]

Sneak Preview! Step-by-Step Watercolor Painting: Terracotta Tile Roofs

Sneak Preview! Step-by-Step Watercolor Painting: Terracotta Tile Roofs

In just a few short months I’ll be going back to Italy! I can’t wait to see the Tuscan hills again and enjoy the endless delights of fresh, delicious Italian food. And the gelato…don’t even get me started on that! October 3-10, 2015, will find me teaching a week-long workshop in Sketchbook Journaling at Fattoria […]

Winter Getaway: Sun, Fun, and Painting!

Winter Getaway: Sun, Fun, and Painting!

Five days of sunshine, warm breezes, and gorgeous aquamarine water are enough to lift anyone’s spirit. Stepping off of a plane in Florida in January is like emerging from a long, dark, damp, cold tunnel that you thought you’d never see the end of. There were palm trees and flowers and people wearing shorts! What […]

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