On the second Saturday of each month, the Bluffton SketchCrawl takes place. We’ve done a lot of virtual meetups over the last few months. We have a FB page that helps us see each other’s monthly sketches. In November, we ventured out to the Old Town area of Bluffton. We didn’t do the traditional meetup […]
Category Archives: Sketching Live
Oh the Night Sky…
I’ll always be grateful for having dogs in our lives. They’ve kept me connected to the night sky whether from the ‘last call pee trips’ before bed or the thankfully seldom wee hours of the morning ‘I’ve got the runs’ trips. Probably TMI there! During the last pee trip on July 31st, the sky […]
What is Going to Catch My Eye?
I organize a group of sketchers that meet once a month for what we call a SketchCrawl. We meet at various places around the Bluffton-Hilton Head area and sketch what ever is in front of us. For the last several months, our Sketchcrawls have been virtual. I’ve been sketching a lot of plants in […]
Salute to the Redbay Tree
Painted plein air using the direct watercolor method. Text and line work added in the studio with Faber Castell markers. Journal: Stillman and Birn Alpha, soft cover.
Conversation / Covid-19 Style
When we took our dogs for a golf cart ride the other evening, this was the scene at the end of our street. When we returned, the conversation was still going on. This sign of the times just had to be captured in my sketchbook. Fountain pen with water soluble ink, platinum fountain pen, white […]
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 […]
