Hudson Valley Sketches -

I spent a couple of days painting at Olana, mostly from this old carriage road called "Ridge Road". In Frederic Church's time...

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 ...

7x10", Gouache Sketch for The Sketchbook Project 2012, Brooklyn Art Library and World Tour No sketchbook of the Hudson Valley would...

I can't believe I made such a dumb mistake, but I painted this upside down into my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project 2012. So when ...

The Hudson River from Plum Point through the Hudson Highlands. Painted on a moody day for The Sketchbook Project 2012.  To see my oil paint...

This sketch was painted on location behind the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New York. It is watercolor and gouache, done in the sketchb...

Today I went to Pomeroy Falls in Platte Clove, and did a watercolor sketch for The Sketchbook Project 2012. It was an absolutely beautiful...

Today I went to paint the replica of Henry Hudson's ship, the Half Moon, but there was no good vantage point for an oil painting of the...

This two page spread features "Hoot", the Eurasian Eagle Owl, and "Freddy" the Emu. I never saw such huge feet on a bir...

The challenge of sketching the chimps was that they were in the shade and so dark that it was hard to distinguish features. They presented ...

Camels seem to be in perpetual motion, so a portrait attempt was no easy feat. Not only do their heads move continually from side to side, ...

Life as an artist is sometimes too much fun to be legal. I had such a great time at the Bronx Zoo a couple of weeks ago that I started won...

Watercolor, painted across a two-page spread in a 6x8" Stillman & Birn Delta sketchbook. The pages were prepared in advance with d...

My husband and I hiked out to Inspiration Point, which overlooks Kaaterskill Clove to the east, west and south from South Mountain in Haine...

If you're interested in ink and wash materials and techniques, check out my guest blot post today for the Goulet Pen Company on their  I...

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...