I’m excited to announce my first LIVE interactive online classes…. Sketch Now ● Travel Later May 6 & 8 (SOLD OUT) May 11 & 13 (SOLD OUT) & May 26 & 28 (Register here) 1:00-4:00 PM (Eastern) “Sketch Now – Travel Later” offers an introduction to the process I use to create my travel sketches, as well as the […]
Category: Sketching
Guest Artist: Karen Colson, & “The Lost Continent of Quarantine” Sketch
My friend Karen Colson from Carlsbad, California, has been sheltering in place for the past month, like the rest of us, and documenting her experiences on the pages of her sketchbook journal. I first met Karen during my Tuscany workshop in 2016, and she’s one of my favorite artists. I love her style and color […]
Our New Normal
I mentioned in my last post that I had started a pandemic journal to document this weird and wild coronavirus roller coaster we’re on. The overriding theme that seems to be emerging as I complete one page after another in this quarantine sketchbook is change and the way our lives today differ from what’s normal. […]
Everyday Pandemic Days
Sketchbook journaling is all about capturing our everyday lives in visual form, so I’ve decided to start a pandemic journal to chronicle the strange times we’re living in. Here are the pages I’ve been working on the past few days… Ink & watercolor in a 3-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ Moleskine Japanese Album journal In my pandemic […]
Catching Up
Hi, Friends – Oh, my, how the world has changed since I last checked in here back in early January! I’m spending most of my time at home these days, just like the rest of you, and with this lull in my usually busy schedule, I’ve been doing lots of painting and working on some […]
California Road Trip – Part 3: 17-Mile Drive
One of the prettiest stretches of coastline that I saw during my recent trip to California was 17-Mile Drive in Monterey. This scenic road meanders around the Monterey peninsula, offering spectacular views of rocky beaches, crashing waves, and abundant wildlife. Ink & watercolor in a 5″ x 6-1/2″ Khadi hardbound sketchbook with rough textured 140 […]
Rincon Point Beach Sketches & More!
During my recent Santa Barbara workshop, I took the class on a sketching field trip to Rincon Point Beach, which was just down the hill from the barn where our class was held. Rincon Point is a world-famous surfing spot, but we settled in on the quieter side of the point where a long, crescent-shaped […]
Santa Barbara Mission Sketches
It’s the week before Christmas, and I’ve been busy shopping, wrapping, and making my signature Dark Chocolate Pecan English Toffee, but I thought I’d take a break from Christmas preparations to share a few more sketches from Santa Barbara that I hadn’t gotten around to posting earlier. This one is my favorite painting from the […]
California Road Trip – Part 2
In my last post (California Road Trip – Part I), I gave some insights into how I create a “flow sketch”, a page design loosely based on a flowchart. What’s a flowchart? It’s defined as “a diagram of the sequence of movements or actions of people or things involved in a complex system or activity.” […]
California Road Trip – Part 1 + Creating a Flow Sketch
My workshop in Santa Barbara last month was a huge success, and the road trip that followed, although not quite what I had expected, was a lot of fun, too, and showed me a part of California that I had always wanted to see. I took hundreds of pictures along the way, so I have […]
