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 […]
Category: Sketching
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 […]
Croatia Travel Journal – Finished!
I finished up my 2019 Croatia travel journal a few months ago but never got around to posting the last few sketches, and, since I hate to leave things unfinished, I thought I’d wrap up this project with one last post. Our day on the little island of Vrnik was one of the best of […]
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 […]
June 2020 Painted Calendar
Get ready for a mammoth post! June was filled to the brim with activities, and I captured them all on one 9″ x 12″ calendar page in my American Journey Journaling Sketchbook. 9″ x 12″, ink & watercolor in an American Journey Journaling Sketchbook (Click on this larger image file to see all the details) […]
Camping, Sketching, and Some Really Big Fish!
We went camping for a few days last week at Pymatuning State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania, and I managed to squeeze in one quick sketch before our grandkids arrived. Two-page spread in a Khadi 5″ x 6-1/2″ sketchbook (Click to enlarge) And I do mean quick! I spent about an hour on it, start to […]
Sketches from Croatia – Part 7 – Žrnovo
More armchair travel from my Croatia trip last fall… Most of our day trips on the island of Korcula had been to seaside towns, but one day we traveled a few kilometers inland to the lost-in-time village of Žrnovo. Sketch of buildings in Žrnovo by Leslie Fehling Ink & watercolor, 7.5″ x 7.5″, in a handmade […]
