During the palette knife painting workshop with Jane Smithers, we also sketched in our journals. The larger image is a 15 minute plein air sketch, the smaller a two-minute memory sketch. Both using just watercolors with no initial pencil sketch. I so love timed sketching. Stokes become quite simplified. It’s great for loosening up and […]
Category Archives: Memory Sketches
February Colors and Observations
This page started as a memory sketch and ended with a plein air watercolor sketch while waiting for full moon to rise on the 18th. I’ve been so taken lately with the contrast of colors in this mid-February and mid-winter landscape. The grasses; both lawn and marsh have reached their most dead and dull coloration. […]
Awaiting the Perseids Meteor Show
Spirits were high. Anticipation to see a possible 50 meteors per hour great. The sunset was divine…. We saw two or three meteors streak the sky at 11 p.m.Off to bed we went, alarm clock set for 5:15 a.m. My internal clock woke me before the alarm – excitement is such a wonderful thing. Out […]
Full Buck Moon Eve – 7.24.2010
Friday, July 23rd, Rob and I drove from western NY to home. We left at 6:30 a.m. in the rain. Luckily, it stopped mid-way through PA. Outside of pit stops for the dogs and us, travel went smoothly until about 5 miles from our connection to Rt. 95 in Fredericksburg, VA. Ah yes…… traveling on […]
