Happy Halloween! This page was created on Calhoun Street in the Old Town section of Bluffton, SC. I started with the flowers and sign post except I was so taken with the blooms and how the vine twirled around the post that I didn’t even consider the original placement…. Oops! Ran out of room for […]
Category Archives: Sketching with Pen
A Bit of Architecture
This is the last sketch I did during the Around-the-Town Sketching Workshop I conducted recently in Beaufort, SC. We were making our way back to Coastal Art Supply and decided to see if anything on Craven Street spoke to us. This church steeple did it for me. The sun was out but storm clouds were […]
Around-the-Town Sketching Workshop
The first Friday and Saturday in October found me in Beaufort conducting a workshop at Coastal Art Supply. Around-the-Town Sketching is one of my favorite workshop formats. Participants gain experience with fast sketching, sketching with pen, plein air watercolor sketching and lettering. We spend the mornings sauntering around the streets of Beaufort and sketching. Sometimes […]
New Item in Sketch Bag
Click to Enlarge This page started off to feature the new addition to my plein air supplies, but then the page took on a life of its own 🙂 Often, when painting the full moon, I get frustrated with the drying time of watercolors, especially in the summer months when the humidity and mosquitoes are […]
Around-the-Town Sketching
Back in April, I conducted an Around-the-Town Sketching Workshop in Beaufort for Coastal Art Supply. On the first day, we started by drawing small boxes of various sizes on a page in our sketchbooks. Then we headed outside with just our Micron pens, pencils and sketchbooks. My goals for the students included learning how to […]
An 11.11.11 Thank You
Please click to enlarge This shell will always have a special place on our bookshelves.It’s a memento from my Dad’s Basic Training days at Parris Island. He wrote the date on the shell. I can see him walking the shoreline of Port Royal Sound and finding this treasure as he contemplated his next steps into […]
