Hudson Valley Sketches -

RiverWinds Gallery is putting together a cookbook of favorite desserts by their artists and the gallery owners. I contributed a recipe a...

I got some great new art supplies to add to my journaling arsenal last week! I found this set of journaling templates by Karen Foster De...

I picked these flowers from around my property before the Hurricane Irene hit, and painted them out on the patio after the storm departe...

I'm still trying to catch up on photographing sketches and paintings and getting them posted! It's been hard to get that done on...

Another sketch from Riga Farm Vic and I got here a bit late, so by the time I finished this second sketch, everybody was breaking for lunc...

Riga Farm Paintout Once again, LHVPAP member Melissa Fischer hosted a paintout at her parents' beautiful farm in Millerton, New York. ...

I've been test driving this new setup for a couple of days now, and it has solved many of my "too many things to hold" proble...

Text: Hiking around North South Lake Vic stopped to make a phone call, so I did this two minute sketch while waiting. (upper left) The c...

When you drive on Route 23a as it starts to wind through Kaaterskill Clove, you never suspect that hidden underneath the second bridge is t...

My husband and I went exploring along Kaaterskill Creek. I brought watercolors and my Fabriano Venezia sketchbook. We came upon a very popu...

In case you thought I fell off the face of the earth due to my lack of painting and sketching posts, fear not! My husband is on vacation for...

This sketch for The Sketchbook Project 2012 features Boulder Rock, with a view of Kaaterskill High Peak across the clove in the distance. I...

Can you believe that I did it yet AGAIN, painting this sketch of Chatham Falls upside down in my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project 2012...

There are beautiful birch trees around North South Lake, though many have been claimed by the beavers in the past couple of years! I sketch...

Before 1965, the Catskill Mountain House sat upon this rock ledge overlooking 60 miles of the Hudson River and the valley floor below, all ...

This is one of my favorite spots in the world to paint. It's in Cold Spring-on-Hudson, New York. There is a point on the river facing no...

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...