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...

  A friend of mine gave me a really cute tin filled with 30 cold press Hannemule watercolor postcards. ( https://amzn.to/3cceRSN .) You can ...

I've been enjoying my gouache paintbox that I converted from a makeup kit in my previous post , and have some updates for my readers....

About five years ago, my daughter abandoned a makeup kit in the bathroom closet. It opened to reveal slide out trays with metal pan...

Watercolor over thin white gesso layer, calligraphy marker For many years, at least a portion of my sketches have been done in old books...

A couple of my gouache (left) and watercolor (right) palettes with some little sketches. The small, airtight plastic container has tit...

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...

When I want a bright white highlight on a sketch, I often count on white gouache to do the job. All whites are created equal, right? W...

Gouache on black paper Painted from life in Trish's back yard For landscape painters, being able to capture the character of a tr...

Well for one thing, you end up with a heck of a lot more time. I logged about a thousand pages of ...

You know the summer season is winding down when your very last Rose of Sharon bush has nearly finished blooming. I'm trying to make...

Watercolor in a Stillman & Birn Zeta hardbound book It's that time of year when change happens. The days are getting much shor...

When ideas are brewing in my head, it often takes awhile for them to emerge as finished paintings. I often play with those ideas in my ...

Happy 2013 to all my viewers! I'd like to start off the new year by sharing my favorite discoveries and new products of the past year...

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 Beta hardbound sketchbook Watercolor Noodler's Luxury Blue Ink Lamy Safari with EF nib Sketched during o...

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

7.5x15" across a two page spread in a custom Arches 140# Rough sketchbook These sketches were painted during another one of the...