Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Nature Abstractions, Travel Sketchbooks on September 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Natural Artist Workshop was greeted with the most perfect, sunny fall weather yesterday and we took full advantage of it. I always enjoy teaching workshops because of the superb company of the students. While the students perched around the garden, the chickens posed (in motion) and it turned into a [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on September 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My young art friends Haley and Cammie helped me name my new Silkie hens, Blackberry and Nimbus. Nimbus has been laying a full sized cream colored egg every other day, even though she’s tiny, as chickens go. Here she is with the idea from which her name was taken.
Sharpee pen, watercolor on Lama [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on September 25, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’m still tapping my toes two days later after spending 6 hours at the Sebastopol Celtic Festival on Sunday. I brought my sketchbook, not imagining that I could really stay interested in six hours of non-stop performance music without some breaks. But at the end of 6 I was ready for 6 more! [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Everyday Sketches on September 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
A new chapter opened in the chicken saga last week. I replaced my Silkie roosters with two new (hopefully!) girls - a young black Silkie and a full grown bearded gray Silkie, who is definitely a girl because she lays beautiful cream colored eggs. I put them in a pen next to the [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on September 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Our model on Thursday night was totally new to modeling, but she followed directions well and had that natural grace of a good model. I stuck with watercolor and remembered to bring good watercolor paper. Makes such a difference!
Posted in Nature Abstractions on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My hens will be posing for quick sketches at the workshop I’m teaching later this month, THE NATURAL ARTIST in Sebastopol, California! Well, posing isn’t exactly what I’d call it, but they’ll make an appearance along with the songbirds and harvest and garden colors and country ambiance. More about it at my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Luis is my cross dresser rooster. Like most studs of the bird kingdom, he wins the beauty prize. If only he could have kept his beak shut! After much gentle urging by a family member, who will go unnamed, I finally took him for a ride over to the Rooster Adoption Agency. [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on September 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Leaving the inks behind I decided to go with the more appealing hues in my watercolor palette. But then I grabbed some paper on my way out, which I thought was watercolor paper, but it wasn’t sized so the paint sank in immediately and would not perform at all! However, who cares when [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on September 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
As I’ve said before, if you like to draw and you’ve never been to a figure drawing marathon. . .you’re really missing out! There’s another one coming up September 16, sponsored by the Bay Area Models Guild in Oakland, CA. Check it out! The image on their publicity is a drawing I [...]
Posted in Paintings on September 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday my good buddy Jeannette and I hung a show of 17 of my paintings at Deuce, a fine restaurant in Sonoma http://dine-at-deuce.com With the gracious help of Kirsten and Peter Stewart, owners of the restaurant, it was a breeze. So my advice is. . . if you live anywhere near Sonoma California. [...]
