I loved doing my sketch for May 6th. It was inspired by a color exercise I saw on Pinterest, but I took the idea and interpreted it in my own way using watercolors. I’ve realized I love color and pattern. This sketch has both, so it made me very happy when I was working on […]
Category: Sketchbook Journaling
Every Day in May: Days 1-5
Hi Everyone! Have you been doing any sketching this spring? I challenged myself at the beginning of the month to try to sketch every day in May. It has been way too long since I made time for a regular daily sketching habit. I felt a need to reconnect with what I really love, and […]
Sketch Monet’s Garden in 2025!
Grab your sketch kit and come away with meto breathtakingly beautiful Giverny! Illustrated Watercolor Journaling in Giverny, France August 30 – September 6, 2025 Register here (BOOK NOW – Save $150 when you register before Nov 30, 2024) We’ve all marveled at Impressionist master Claude Monet’s incredible water lily paintings, but how would you like […]
Discovering New Places: Vinalhaven
After thirty years of visiting Maine, I finally took the ferry from Rockland to Vinalhaven last summer and spent a day exploring the tiny town of Carver’s Harbor and some of the walking trails that wind throughout the island. Of course, I took my sketchbook along, and I thought you would enjoy seeing the creative […]
Snapshot Travel Itinerary Sketch
Travel journaling involves a substantial time commitment. When I keep a full-fledged illustrated travel journal that includes watercolor sketches plus written daily commentary on where I went and what I saw and did each day, it can be challenging to find enough hours in the day to complete everything during the trip. I usually have […]
Heart Journal – Part 7
Catch up on previous heart journal posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 After the bulk of the heart journal was completed, I added two more pages before calling it finished. My little journal had turned into a full-fledged book, so I felt it needed a title page. I had […]
A Cute Maine Cottage Sketch
The day after Thanksgiving 2023, my mother and I took off for Florida, leaving Fred with all the leftovers from a huge turkey dinner I had cooked the day before. The two of us were tagging along on a Disney trip that my daughter had been planning for the past year. So, while the grandkids […]
Heart Therapy and Art Therapy – Part 6
Catch up on previous heart journal posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 My husband had been released from the Cleveland Clinic on the evening of day 6, but we didn’t drive home that night. His medical team had recommended that we stay in the area for another day or two, […]
Heart Therapy and Art Therapy – Part 5
Catch up with previous heart journal posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 After three uneventful days in the step-down unit, biding our time until Fred was ready to make his escape, I was casting about for things to sketch when it suddenly dawned on me that it would be fun to document […]
Heart Therapy and Art Therapy – Part 4
Catch up with previous heart journal posts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 We found everyone we met at the Cleveland Clinic to be unfailingly polite, helpful, and kind, but the nurses of the cardiac ICU exhibited a level of caring, empathy, and professionalism that was beyond anything I had dared to hope for. Simply […]
