Hudson Valley Sketches -

Gouache, across a two page spread in a gray-toned sketchbook. My friend Mary came over one day to sketch. We sat on the little dock in...

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...

Wow, it's been nearly four years since I've posted my sketches! I've been doing a lot of them in the past couple of years, so pe...

Today I did a monochrome tree sketch in acrylic, using the 14x22" spread provided by my Stillman & Birn 11x14" Alpha sketch...

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

I'm continuing with some palette ideas I started last winter and spring. You can see a couple more of them in this post from May . I&...

I don't always do compositional sketches before embarking on a painting. When working out on location, the time to paint is always to...

  11x17" (across the spread) in a Stillman & Birn Zeta Sketchbook Background monoprinted in several layers with a Gelli Printi...

Every once in awhile, we need to just throw paint. That's what I was in the mood for when I did these two acrylic sketches! They were...

10x8", Noodlers Luxury Blue ink in  my Pescia light blue journal A good friend sent me flowers for my birthday during the time I w...

This is a 10x22" spread across three pages in my blue Pescia journal. You can click on it to enlarge the image. ( Here is a link to...

One of the things I experimented with in this blue Pescia book was silverpoint. Doesn't silverpoint have to be done on a hard sur...

This three page spread is about 10x22". I didn't take photos of the individual pages, but you can click the image to get a much ...

The sketch above is Posie, my studio assistant, rendered directly with blue Big Brush Pitt Pens by Faber-Castell on heavy Pescia 100% rag...

(Click image for a larger, clearer view.) A few days ago, I hiked up to the base of Kaaterskill Falls with some friends for...

I often practice sketching items from photos that I have to be able to pop into plein air paintings quickly. This includes figures, boat...

11x14" Monotype print across the two page spread of an 8.5x11" Stillman & Birn Zeta hardbound sketchbook After spendi...

There's been a lot of buzz out there lately about the new Gelli Printing Plates, which enable artists to use traditional acrylics to cre...

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 ...

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...

I've had an urge to do some small watercolor sketches of animals from photos I took at the zoo over the last couple of years, so I&...

This has been a long couple of months away from my art. My husband's uncle passed away, my daughter was in the hospital, and my young...

Today, I'm not bringing you a sketch. Instead, I'd like to direct your attention to the Golden Video Library . I'm always surpri...

(click sketch to enlarge) Sketched at RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon NY Pitt Big Brush Pens (cool greys) and watercolor on Stillman &...

You may think I've played with just about every art product on the market at one time or another, but every year I seem to discover or r...

I've tried a lot of new products this year. Some I loved, some I hated, and some were okay but probably won't become staples in my s...