Given this special ‘number day’ in September, I had to sketch something so I’d remember where I was. Sketch I did, I just didn’t finish this page until yesterday 🙂 We had these plants all over our lot when we built our NY home. I remember how amazed I was at softness of the leaves […]
Category Archives: Watercolor Pencils
All Art is Local Column
Here is my final draft for the All Art is Local column for the upcoming issue of ArtNews magazine. You can click on the image for a larger view. The painting for the artist in residency piece for Cheraw State Park has been designed. It’s ready for paint 🙂 I’ll keep you posted.
My Tools of Discovery
The theme of the next issue of ArtNews, the Arts Council of Beaufort County’s quarterly publication, is Innovation: Science, Technology & the Arts. I have been invited to author the All Art is Local column. I love the theme. It’s a natural fit with my love of nature journaling. I’m very honored to partake! This […]
Another Side of Wasps
Ah yes, wasps can strike instant fear into our hearts. I can remember my first experience of being stung by a wasp and that was many, many moons ago. So what’s this other side??? Like Heidi Van Impe’s story about the Bald-faced Hornet, there are many species in the Hymenoptera order that are non-aggressive, some even […]
Looking Forward to Fall Workshops
We’re heading home to SC. Just in time to enjoy the cooler temps and the long relaxed slide into Autumn. These two sketches were workshop demo’s on saving whites when working with watercolor pencils. On the left image, I used a colorless blender pencil (normally used with colored pencils) to save the trunks of the […]
Mature Climbing Nightshade
What a difference a few weeks makes! The once green plant with small purple flowers and green berries is now an eerie looking purple leaved woody branch with a few red berries. Very Halloween – Sleepy Hollow looking! If I knew nothing about this plant other than my field observations, my heart would tell me […]
