Hudson Valley Sketches -

  Happy New Year, everybody! I can't believe Holidays in Ink is over. I'm still mentally processing everything from this challenge. ...

Pentel Pocket Brush Pen  with Platinum Carbon Black ink If you open up the Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to the Birds, the first th...

If you're an artist who doesn't like winter, maybe this post is for you! I used to hate winter. If you live in a cold climate an...

8.5x11" across a two page spread of a Stillman & Birn Alpha Hardbound sketchbook Platinum Black Carbon Ink and Watercolor I...

11x17" across a two page spread in my altered book Watercolor   In a session of short poses in life drawing, I find there is not enoug...

11x17" across the spread in an altered book Golden Black Gesso Winsor Newton, Holbein, and Schmincke Gouache These poses were just 30 ...

  Click image for a larger, clearer view Pitt Big Brush Pens Stillman & Birn Epsilon 5.5x8.5" hardbound sketchbook This was my las...

Pitt Big Brush Pens Stillman & Birn Epsilon 5.5x8.5" hardbound sketchbook Today our sketch group had its monthly sketch-out at Ada...

This image is clickable if you wish to view an enlargement. Quick figure sketches from photo references ( The Figure in Motion ) Pitt Big Br...

Quick boat studies 11x17" across a two page spread in my altered book Although I prefer to work just in one main art journal at a tim...

(Click image for a larger, clearer view.) When my sketching group goes to Adams, we all meet in the cafe area for lunch at noon. It's ...

I went to the Jefferson Valley Mall with a group of artist friends, where we were nearly evicted by a security guard for sketching! These we...

To read this review from the beginning (Part I), click here . Finally the time had come to take the Alpha sketchbook on the road and answe...

  My sister got married last weekend in Florida, so my husband and I flew down for the wedding. I didn't get much of a chance to sketch ...

11x17" across a two page spread in a 8.5x11" Stillman & Birn Epsilon book Noodler's Zhivago in a Lamy Safari B nib P...

Today I went to open studio figure drawing for the first time in over a year! Every year, I attend regularly during the winter months when ...