Hudson Valley Sketches -

  It's almost that time! You're invited to join me and a bunch of my friends for this fun, educational, and motivational, annual adv...

  The Holidays in Ink Challenge certainly got me out of my comfort zone this week. I had some new art adventures, discovered more about what...

  Here in the northeastern United States, October is the month when we plein air painters flock outside to capture the very short burst of p...

Sometimes you just have to let go.

Today I did a monochrome tree sketch in acrylic, using the 14x22" spread provided by my Stillman & Birn 11x14" Alpha sketch...

I'm continuing with some palette ideas I started last winter and spring. You can see a couple more of them in this post from May . I&...

10x8", Noodlers Luxury Blue ink in  my Pescia light blue journal A good friend sent me flowers for my birthday during the time I w...

One of the things I experimented with in this blue Pescia book was silverpoint. Doesn't silverpoint have to be done on a hard sur...

The sketch above is Posie, my studio assistant, rendered directly with blue Big Brush Pitt Pens by Faber-Castell on heavy Pescia 100% rag...

About 6x8", across the spread of a Stillman & Birn Epsilon hardbound book Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft Ivory Black Thi...

Just Doodling, 8.5x11" (across the spread) with a 2.4mm Pilot Parallel fountain pen in a Stillman & Birn Alpha Hardbound boo...

  Iroshizuku Yama-Guri ink in a Hero 86 "Fude" nib fountain pen   I'd been hearing about these "fude nib" fountain...

Antique water pump and wooden bucket: 11x8.5", Wolff's Carbon Pencil and wash in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon hardbound sketchboo...

Golden Black Gesso Iridescent and Interference Acrylics Krylon Gold Leafing Pen Stillman & Birn 5.5x8.5" hardbound sketchbook Just...

Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Neutral Grays , plus Black and Titanium White Stillman and Birn 8.5x11" hardbound Epsilon Sketchbook Those ...

8.5x11" Stillman & Birn Epsilon hardbound sketchbook Pitt Big Brush Pens I've been doing a few portrait sketches from photos...

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

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

Pitt Warm Grey Big Brush Pens Stillman & Birn Epsilon 8.5x11" hardbound sketchbook I have a book of old photographs of great compo...

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...