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 Travel Sketchbooks on June 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Watercolor and pen in Arches Travel Book
I have sketchbooks filled with menus of meals eaten in restaurants. You’d think that’s all I do when i take trips! Not so. It’s often the only time one has for sketching though, because you’re sitting down for a few minutes. You have water in your [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A couple months ago I listened to the book on CD “Luncheon of the Boating Party” by Susan Vreeland, the story of Renoir’s painting of this remarkable piece, a portion of which is pictured above. How would you like to commandeer 14 friends and acquaintances each Sunday for weeks, wine and dine them and [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Travel Sketchbooks on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Any vacation worth its salt centers at least partially around adventure-eating. The new Museum of the American Indian in WAshington, D.C. features a lunchroom like no other I’ve ever seen. Indian cuisine from various Indian cultures in the Americas, prepared native-style and fit for the table of any four star restaurant. I [...]
