Happy Sadie Hawkins Day! This is the first day in a while that’s been nice when Rob has it off 🙂 We took advantage… Off to the driving range we went. Rob with clubs, me with paints. This little Redbud sits just over a small hill from the tree I painted last March 8th. This […]
Category Archives: Watercolors. Plein Air
The Crescent Moon, Venus and Earthshine
Earthshine… what a lovely word! I probably learned it as a youth, but paying attention to science, history and math really wasn’t my thing back then 🙂 Just imagine if illustrated nature journaling was part of my school’s classroom curriculum…. ooh, la, la… what fun it would have been to learn these subjects through art! […]
A Wedding Day Walk
Today, I happened upon a co-worker with his girl friend. They were especially dressed up and I just had to ask what was going on 🙂 “We were just married!!” Well, I thought a watercolor sketch of where they first walked as husband and wife was in order, so I used this image as the […]
Full Owl Moon
I’ve been tickled for weeks as January’s Full Moon falls on my birthday this year 🙂 How great is that…. a present from the cosmos! The morning started off with total cloud cover, but the forecast called for clearing. Sure enough, when I took the dogs for their late afternoon walk the sky was beautiful […]
Birthday Beach Trip
click to enlarge I love having birthdays. It’s a day when I can do anything I want 🙂 Breakfast out is a favorite. Done! Then what does the mind and body feel like? A trip to the beach! Today’s bonus was a newly washed up tree. The regular beach walkers let us know it just […]
Bear Tree
I’ve been walking by this interesting Live Oak for a year and a half, and finally, just the right day arrived to sketch it! I don’t know if I achieved the look of a bear face in my drawing, but in real life it really does resemble one 🙂 The tree stands along a sidewalk […]
