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 […]
Category Archives: Sketching with Pen
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 […]
Sweetgum
Easter Sunday found us outside doing the things we enjoy most. Yes, golf was involved… but not for me 🙂 A Sweetgum tree that was close to the putting green offered a branch at eye level. I’ve been wanting to capture their spring flowers for many years. It was great to see a seed pod […]
A Walk in the Woods
With muck boots on, off I went into the woods that flank the east side of our home. We always have deer in our front and back yard. I wanted to see where they live. This is a good time of year to traverse the woods…. no bugs to speak of and that particular morning […]
Bald Cypress
In the middle of the town of Port Royal, SC, there is a treasure… The Cypress Wetland Park. Over the years, the town recognized the value of this wetland and have worked hard to preserve it. Last year they completed a boardwalk that skirts the edge of the wetland. In the middle is an island […]
Workshop Demo Pages
Here are two journal pages I created during a couple of workshops, as demonstrations for students. The left was sketched with a black 02 Micron pen. The right was sketched en plein air using an 005 Sepia Micron pen, then painted with watercolors using a waterbrush. The assignment here was for students to sketch what […]
