A cat I stay with while her owner is away is a muse  for sketching & for French practice. This kind of fast sketching  (a cat's move...

Sketchbook Wandering is studying languages again.  I'm taking a beginning Italian language class for travelers as well as an advanced Fr...

  I enjoyed May's series with daily prompts on "Mindfulness" & Mental Health. All of the prompts were positive & uplif...

  I promised myself & you, blog visitors, that I  would glue up my painted Blue papers (previous post)  into a folded folio. The pages o...

Some of my work during the weeklong class. It was perhaps the best art class I've ever taken at University.  We were encourage...

Since retirement, my home-time is very pleasurable.  I have "stations" around the house for: Painting • Drawing • Z...

  Eight years ago, when I was selling my art at Art in the Park a woman asked me to create an illustration for her daughter, who was raisi...

Perhaps one doesn't think of a public library as thrilling... but I WAS thrilled  visiting the newly rennovated Bibliothèque...

  Above: I turned a corner in the 7th arrondissemnt and caught my first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower. Today Paris is celeb...

In Portland there used to be a most adorable, friendly & FRENCH café called  Mornings in Paris.  To see a post I made in 2012 ...

My childhood art teacher presented us with  still lifes.  Many, many still lifes.  Above: I quickly arranged some things that were ...

Away from my to-do lists & routines  my senses always open up in Québec. Sketching & note-taking, my tool for  observing ...