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 […]
Category Archives: Sketching with Pen
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 […]
Fish Haul Creek Park
At long last a few hours away that made me feel like I’ve had an entire weekend getaway! Fish Haul is on Hilton Head Island and borders Port Royal Sound. It’s a birder’s paradise and an ecological wonder. Every SC Low Country Master Naturalist class gets a field trip here and is warned not to […]
Garden Journal Workshop Offering
Are you ready for an Artful Autumn Get-Away? In conjunction with Coastal Art Supply and The Beaufort InnI will be conducting A Garden Journal Workshop October 25, 26 and 27 · 10 am – 3:30 pm Beaufort, South Carolina Images from the May 2011 Garden Journal Workshop Autumn in the low country of South Carolina…. kiss the […]
