Posted in Everyday Sketches, Nature Abstractions on July 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
watercolor, pen in Arches Travel Book
they say the bees are disappearing - a grave matter
yet here the lavender hums and sways. . .one lone bumblebee remained last night, too intoxicated to make it home with the others. now i’m drunk too on bee vibrations.
I’ve still got the scent of lavender all over me [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks on July 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Pen, watercolor, collage in Arches Travel Book
So here’s what I was doing Saturday while Bob was taking pictures on our shared “Artist Date” in the city. This non-Japanese guard was my only stationary target - I could tell he wasn’t going to move for a long time. I mean it was pretty peaceful [...]
Posted in Animals, Everyday Sketches, Nature Abstractions, Travel Sketchbooks on July 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Watercolor, pen, collage, stamping, in sketchbook
Mendocino has wonderful art galleries, clothing stores, bakeries, delis, even a good bookstore, but after the first day, I was done with it and nature beckoned. While Bob was still occupied for the day at his workshop I set off for Russian Gulch park, a paradise for hiking and [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks on June 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Friday morning Bob and I headed out through fire country to the coastal town of Mendocino for the weekend. Seemed a bit illogical to drive toward the 134 wildfires burning out of control in Mendocino County. I could feel an irrational fear welling up and choking me as the air got thicker with [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks, Workshops on June 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Whereas Saturday we worshiped shade and iced drinks, when Sunday dawned, the jackets went on. A new group of students arrived seeking sun for their warm up sketches. Several students wanted to find a way to either overcome “beginner-itis” or to find a way to jump back into an art practice in a [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks, Workshops on June 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Saturday’s workshop students doing their warm up sketches
This is sketching boot camp. Do you see students standing, perching and squatting, bending over and balancing, with pens and paints and water and paper? And on top of it all, a sun so merciless that people were clinging to their spots of shade in the [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Figurative Abstracts, Uncategorized on June 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Allow me to introduce you to my husband by sharing a sketch I did a few years ago from across a table at a restaurant. We were discussing art and he was weighing in with his opinion. I assure you he was referring to much of contemporary art and not any art you [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on May 17, 2008 | No Comments »
What happened to our lovely spring weather? We’ve been getting a serious roasting here in the San Francisco Bay area, so when I ran into this old sketch of my son from summers gone by, well I had to share it. Don’t worry, it’s a non-alcoholic Marguerita, and after all, the real appeal [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pen and watercolor in Moleskin sketchbook
A mixture of performance and fine art exhibited in Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa. I attended to see the art of my artist friends and for a leisurely Saturday afternoon of “bench sketching”. The juggler here was entertaining two pre-school age kids while I sat there trying to [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks on May 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
You definitely have not lived until you’ve tasted the cake from heaven - Janet’s chocolate macadamia nut cake. She’s promised to get the recipe to me, but I haven’t received it yet, so don’t ask. . .
I will end my travel sketch-log with sketches from one of my last evenings in [...]
