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 […]
Category Archives: Sketching with Pen
A Mini Urban Sketching Workshop with James Richards
Urban sketching for this nature girl? Oh yes 🙂 One of my goals is to add people into my sketches and I’ve been practicing for over a year now. When Kip Bradly at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA announced Jim was coming to town to give a three hour workshop, I jumped at the […]
Field Sketching Friday
Friday, my co-worker/naturalist, Kristen Marshall Mattson and I led a nature journaling workshop for members of Spring Island. What a great way to start the day! Walking through the woods, examining plants, sketching our finds, adding details, learning new things both art and nature related. YUM! None of us wanted it to end 🙂 Did […]
Beaching It
We don’t get to the beach often, but when we do…. we have fun 🙂 Love the way the watercolors stay so vibrant on the Stillman & Birn Alpha paper. One day I’ll be able to photograph the pages in this journal so they look the same as they do in person…
Round One, 2013 RBC Heritage Sketches
click to enlarge Thursday had perfect weather for the start of the RBC Heritage. We arrived just after 9 a.m. and hiked to the 14th green. There we proceeded to park ourselves for the rest of the day. A tough job, but someone had to do it! Unbelievable pollen storms. The wind would blow and […]
Fast Sketching at a Rookery
The rookery on Spring Island is humming, or should I say, clacking right along. When I arrived all I could hear was the clacking of the Wood Storks bills. They decorated the tops of the trees while nesting egrets were sprinkled in the lower vegetation. Please forgive the poor quality of my sketch images. I […]
