It was a beauty of a day in the low country. Rob and I took our bikes into Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island. Sea Pines is a large resort and residential plantation at the south end of the island. Charles Fraser, a real estate developer, transformed HHI with the creation of Sea Pines, […]
Category Archives: Watercolors. Plein Air
Mackay Creek View… Another Tutorial
click to enlarge all images I finished the page at home, adding a few more darks and textures to the exposed oyster bed on the left side and finally, the type. I made my notes in pencil while on location. I didn’t want to forget anything! One day, I’ll be able to write in a […]
Plein Air Nature Journal Page Tutorial
Last week, we had some unusually warm weather in the lowcountry. Rob and I took advantage by taking our bikes to Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge. This is one of the major reasons I asked for a bike for Christmas. I’ve been yearning to sketch and paint the far and beyond of Pinckney. By the […]
Long – Night Moon… the beginning
click to enlarge This morning was my maiden voyage on my new ‘PaintCycle’ – A hearty thank you to my in-laws for gift money to purchase a cruiser bicycle with a basket perfect for hauling art supplies 🙂 A tad chilly, make that a cold 33 degrees at 6:45 a.m., but I had to capture […]
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 […]
Full Frost Moon
Now for the rest of the story… On my iPhone, I have a couple of neat Apps: 1) for viewing the sky, sun, moon, stars and even satellites – whether during the day or night. It’s called….. Night Sky, and 2) MoonPhase…. which provides information like rise and set times, a calendar showing the different […]
