Live direct watercolor sketch of May garden blooms by Pam Johnson Brickell.
Fitting in a Sketch

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Live direct watercolor sketch of May garden blooms by Pam Johnson Brickell.
Sketching from life – especially moving subjects – is the best exercise for learning to trust your eye – hand coordination and mark making skills! At the last Bluffton SketchCrawl, I arranged for the Bluffton Urban Sketchers to meet at Okatee River Farm. It was a true delight to be on this property that runs […]
I am thrilled to tell you…., Carolyn Males, writer for Local Life Magazine, interviewed me for an article she’s writing about Journal Keeping. She contacted several folks in the area from all walks of life that keep various types of journals. Interview questions enabled each of us to tell our journaling story. Click here to […]
Autumn in the Lowcountry is by far my favorite season. While we don’t boast New England’s colors, the textures created by both color and form are such eye candy to me.
As it happens with Nature Journaling, once you take a closer look at something in our natural world and draw it in your journal, all of a sudden you want to know more about it. The process is really quite an adventure and can lead you down many rabbit holes. The reward for your effort […]
June and July were great months for live sketching backyard visitors from the comfort of our air conditioned home! August is starting strong as well : )