Hudson Valley Sketches -

Watercolor and ink across a two-page spread in a Stillman & Birn Delta sketchbook. These were sketched at the Bronx Zoo, with the page ...

Last week I went to the Bronx Zoo with a group of artists. What a great place for a sketching trip! I even took out a membership so that I ...

Today I did my second entry for the Brooklyn Art Library's sketchbook collection, through The Sketchbook Project 2012 .  This was sket...

This is my first sketch for the The Sketchbook Project 2012! If you haven't heard about this annual, ongoing venture, you can check it ...

I figured I'd have a half hour or so to sketch, but my daughter re-emerged from her appointment in just 10-15 minutes! When I got home,...

Today is the day I'd been looking forward to for such a long time. I was planning to sketch at the Bronx Zoo. As you can tell from t...

I have been dreaming of getting this Nomadic messenger bag for sketching materials ever since I saw it on the internet. The messenger b...

I've been painting and sketching the waterfalls on my own property lately, so when my friend Karen invited me to come and paint hers fo...

You can click the image above to enlarge it. Well, I have to say, this was really fun! I prepared a background using diluted Golden Fluid...

The Goulet Pen Company has an " Ink Drop " program where they send you five fountain pen ink samples at the beginning of each m...

Click any image to enlarge. Today I went sketching in Hudson, New York with artist friends Janice Filkins and Gretchen Kelly. The City of...

Above is a waterfall sketch that I did last night while test driving the Stillman & Birn Beta Series sketchbook . There are five dif...

Rondo's International Fake Journal, continued. Click image to enlarge. If you'd like to see the rest of Rondo's journal, click t...

You can click on any images in this post to enlarge them. Everybody always wants to know what's in my sketching bag, so I thought I...

Here's Rondo at one of his favorite spots. We call this one "Mossy Falls" due to the abundance of beautifully colored moss th...

Rondo sleeps for long periods of time without batting an eyelash, but he hates to model for me. Dogs must have a sixth sense about knowing w...

Rondo's adventures continue during International Fake Journal Month. You can see the series by clicking here . The posts will appear in...

  When Rondo wants a snack, he tap dances on the laminate floor in the kitchen, next to the cabinet where we keep his treat. On rare occas...

Note: Too see all of my lightfastness tests to date, click here . You may recall that I started a series of Lightfastness Tests back...

  (Click image if you'd like to see it larger.) For many reasons, I decided to add watercolor to my monochrome sketch of this scene. ...

  This was sketched with Quink Black ink, a Pilot Parallel calligraphy fountain pen on its side, and a waterbrush to do the washes. This p...

This sketch was done with Private Reserve Chocolat . Initially, I wasn't so crazy about this ink because so much red appeared in the w...