June and July were great months for live sketching backyard visitors from the comfort of our air conditioned home! August is starting strong as well : )
Art Tip Tuesday ~ Ink, Water, Feathers & Fur… Oh My!
Category Archives: live sketching. sketching from life
Watercolor Snippets of Old South Golf Links
I found a leftover narrow strip of Waterford 140 lb. watercolor paper that I turned into a 4-panel concertina booklet. Each section measures 3×5.5 inches. I thought it would be a fun challenge to create small watercolors as we made our way around the course. While Rob warmed up on the range, I recreated Old […]
Three Sisters Farm ~ Bluffton SketchCrawl
It’s always such a joy to visit Three Sisters Farm for our SketchCrawl. Beth Lee, one of the owners and sisters, gave us a tour of the gardens, then our small group scattered to the four winds to sketch. Art Goal for the Day . . . . . . Capture a sense of place. […]
A Visit to Widgeon Point Preserve
Creating a Journal Page from Photographs We checked out Beaufort County’s newest passive park: Widgeon Point Preserve. A real beauty that can be found off of Rt 170, just before the Broad River Bridge when heading into Beaufort from Okatie. I didn’t bring my journaling supplies with me. This was a day for the dogs. […]
Braving the Cold and Wet to Sketch
Saturday was our local SketchCrawl. The lowcountry is experiencing a spell of cold, raw, rainy days. What can I say… It’s February. While the native flora is waking up and confirming spring is around the corner, the weather still celebrates every bit of winter that it can throw our way. Thankfully no snow yet! I […]
Quick Watercolor Sketch
I have a great office at work. It’s actually a converted two bedroom cottage. There is a small kitchen and an all purpose dining living area that’s now used for meetings. The bedrooms are offices. My desk is in one and our Landscape Ecologist (LE) has the other. The cottage is off and away from […]
