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 […]

Around-the-Town Sketching

Back in April, I conducted an Around-the-Town Sketching Workshop in Beaufort for Coastal Art Supply. On the first day, we started by drawing small boxes of various sizes on a page in our sketchbooks.  Then we headed outside with just our Micron pens, pencils and sketchbooks.  My goals for the students included learning how to […]

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! […]