In yesterday’s post, (find it here), I shared how this page began with a walk in the woods and a “5-5-5 Sketch Challenge”, where I walked, drew, and painted one image at a time to create a composite sketch. The plein air sketching session gave me a good start on this page, but it needed […]
Category: Sketches
A Walk with the Boys
One Sunday in early spring, I decided to do a 5-5-5 Sketch Challenge: I would walk for 5 minutes, draw for 5 minutes, and paint for 5 minutes until I had filled a page (or two) in my sketchbook.
Come along with me and the boys, and see how a blank sketchbook page develops, step-by-step, into a complete sketch!
More Gratitude Sketches
Yay! It’s finally feeling like spring here at Summerhill. I’ve even seen some crocus popping up in the flowerbeds. After a snowy, icy, February, it seems like spring arrived overnight. Remember the gratitude sketch challenge that I was participating in last month? I didn’t manage to sketch every day, but I really enjoyed the hours […]
Sketchbook Traveling through Tuscany
This is the sketchbook that started it all. My first trip to Italy lit a fire for travel that continues to burn in me today. That trip seven years ago opened my eyes to the wonder and exhilaration of exploring places that are worlds away from my little corner of Pennsylvania. The journal I kept […]
Sunshine & Risotto – Sketches + Recipe
Wintertime in Pennsylvania often brings periods of dreary, overcast days with intermittent snow flurries and/or drizzle. Sounds lovely, right? The gray days seem interminable at times, so when we finally get a dazzlingly sunny day, it puts a smile on everyone’s faces and makes my spirits soar. This scene is the view from my front […]
Grateful
It’s so easy these days to get caught up in all the negatives that pervade our lives. Fear, worry, uncertainty, and a feeling of helplessness have become our companions this past year, and many of my art friends tell me that they’re experiencing a sort of artistic paralysis. So, I proposed a challenge in my […]
Guest Artist: Cathy McCort – 2020 Illustrated!
Get ready to be wowed! My friend Cathy McCort has done it again. She’s completed another year of fun, colorful sketched calendar pages. (See this post for Cathy’s 2019 calendar sketches.) And what a year 2020 turned out to be! Cathy had no idea back in January 2020 that the next twelve months would bring […]
Fall Road Trip Sketchbook – Part 2
My last post was all about our trip to the Delaware shore, but there’s more to the story. After four days in Cape Henlopen, we hooked up the camper and hit the road, headed for a park in Virginia that overlooks the Potomac River. All sketches done in a 5″ x 8″ Pentalic Aqua Journal […]
Fall Road Trip Sketchbook – Part 1
Fred and I loaded up our camper trailer in early October and hit the road, headed for points east. All sketches done in a 5″ x 8″ Pentalic Aqua Journal We ran away to Cape Henlopen State Park near Lewes, Delaware, and spent four days with no work, no TV, and best of all, no […]
Sketching with Friends…Finally!
A few days ago I met up with a couple of my sketching buddies for a morning of drawing and painting at the Greene County Historical Society in Waynesburg, PA. Ink & watercolor in a 6-1/2″ x 5″ Khadi sketchbook with 140 lb. rough paper We all needed this, sitting together in the sunshine, painting, chatting, and […]
