Hudson Valley Sketches -

Here's the post that many have been eagerly awaiting.... THE PROMPT LIST! If you haven't yet seen the post with the dates and other ...

  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...

Results are in on the lightfastness tests I did of the full line of De Atramentis Document Inks! You can see the results of the testing of t...

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

  I've been excited to have a go at the Black and White on Toned Paper prompt (Process #6). When working on a toned surface, I nearly al...

I can't believe we're more than half way through this challenge, and heading into Week 4. If you're doing the challenge also, le...

  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...

During the busy holiday season, I'll be taking this Holidays in Ink Challenge, enabling me to just sketch with pen and paper when the go...

  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...

I was sitting in on a court case today and had my first-ever opportunity to sketch in a courtroom.  I arrived a few minutes before the fi...

If you're a fountain pen aficionado, sketch with ink and dip pens, love Pitt Brush pens, or the coverage you get with colored pencils...

8.5x11" across a two page spread of a 5.5x8.5" Stillman & Birn Beta Hardbound Sketchbook Ink and Watercolor On the wa...

8.5x11" across a two page spread in a 5.5x8.5" Stillman & Birn Beta hardbound sketchbook Ink and Watercolor I went to...

Stillman & Birn 5.5x8.5" hardbound Beta sketchbook Watercolors Lamy Safari with EF nib and Noodler's Luxury Blue Pit...

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

8.5x11" across a two page spread in a Stillman & Birn Alpha 5.5x8.5" Hardbound book Noodler's Black Swan in Australia...

11x17" across a two page spread of a Stillman & Birn Epsilon Hardbound book Watercolor and Pitt Big Brush Pens Sometimes it&...

11x17", across a two page spread in a Stillman & Birn 8.5x11" hardbound sketchbook Watercolor, Pitt Brush Pens, Fountain Pens,...

Private Reserve Chocolat and Private Reserve Velvet Black Inks, mixed about 3:1  in a Platinum Preppy fountain pen, and washed with a waterb...

Click image for a larger, clearer view Pitt Pens and Watercolor Background prepared in advance with diluted acrylic At the end of the day, ...