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: Watercolors. Plein Air
Beaching It…. Again!
I don’t mean to flaunt 🙂 Actually for someone who only lives 15 miles from the beach, this is only the fourth time we’ve been this year! Very sad, really! This spread is the second in my new Stillman & Birn hardbound, Beta Series journal. I’ve officially decided to designate it for all things water […]
Beach Day with my Stillman and Birn Journal
Last month I entered a drawing on Stillman and Birn’s FaceBook page to win one of their hardbound journals that feature 180 lb. watercolor paper. I was one of 10 lucky artists to win 🙂 Two Sundays ago, I had the perfect opportunity to take it for a spin. We treated ourselves to beach chairs […]
Broad Strokes
Today, Spring Island’s Landscape Ecologist, whom I share office space with, asked if I wanted to visit one of our resident’s garden… I grabbed my sketch bag before he even finished his sentence 🙂 I’ve been hearing about Ann’s garden for two years. It is incredible. Loaded with native plants and in one small area […]
Blue Moon Celebration… Goodbye Neil
We’ve had soooo many storms all week that I was thrilled when the Weather Channel said our chances for rain would be 30% at moonrise Friday. I was still worried that a thunderstorm might pop up. Usually a 30% chance of rain in the lowcountry means zero rain….. but lately, that truth is being rubbed […]
Ocean Course in Sea Pines
What an incredible day in the Low Country of South Carolina! Low 80’s, a breeze with cool tones, no humidity to speak of… Is it really August in SC? Rob and I took total advantage and enjoyed the day down in Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island. We went to the driving range at […]
