Oooo, the BeeCycle has been getting a workout. We went over to Palmetto Bluff to bike the trails. This is one of the scenes along the five mile drive into the village. On this trip I carried my 8.5×11 Stillman and Birn Alpha journal in my basket. I love sketching with a Micron pen on […]
Category Archives: Stillman and Birn Sketchbook
Water Study
The Stillman & Birn journal I’ve dedicated to water studies finally has another entry. Saturday, I conducted a workshop entitled “Working Small”. The morning was spent in the classroom honing quick sketching skills, learning to how to capture a scene in 4 values and last but not least, putting skills learned into practice by sketching […]
Boo!
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 […]
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 […]
The Ink and Exercise Challenge
I’m trying out yet another Stillman and Birn Journal…. this time the Epsilon Series that has paper suited for pen and ink. This is my first entry and I’ve got to say writing on this paper with a Micron pen is dreamy. The greys were created with grey and black Pentel Sign Pens that I […]
