Festive Holiday doings during the Farnsworth Art Museum's seasonal Share the Wonder events. First, a concert by the Penobscot R...

  Sketchers went Downeast, to Stonington. Field Trip!! Sketchbook Wandering!    I got to ride in the back seat... Quick impres...

    Greetings  during the season of long nights when we fill our coastal villages with Colored Lights,  Santas,  Wreaths All Re...

There's a song (my favorite version is by Willie Nelson) :  "Blue Skies, smiling at me. Nothing but Blue Skies, do I see... ...

Our 2nd excursion with the Urban Sketch Group. A Hometown, Downhome day, on our waterfront.  We didn't need to wander far f...

 The mountaintop to which I return often... "Where the mountains meet the sea..." Two sketches from the same spot, ...

Changes as October hurries on.  The leaves, blow & fly these days.  Trees are  are partially dressed,  arms & fingers rev...

  It was still high tourist season on Mount Desert Island but a friend & I drove over anyway.  We found a few quiet places for sk...

Do you have a place (places) of happiness &  bliss? Of serenity, appreciation, & awe for this world? A refuge, a spot you c...

Some one in our Sketchers Group said that watercolor  is less forgiving than oils. True. But I'm learning that one can go in &...

Late afternoons, early evenings on the nearby mountaintop.  There are some tourists. They are happy to be here.   I go for solitude...

This coast of Maine attracts many painting workshops which attract many summer vacationers. They come from Massachusetts. Pennsyvania. Indi...

I recently went back to the inn at Spruce Head for a night (after having been there on June 4 (backtrack to the post of June 8.)  I retur...

Acadia National Park is turning 100 years old.  I started a new Moleskine accordion in her honor.  I'm going back as soon as I can ...

Every year in June, I gaze at lupines, lupines & more lupines out my back windows. I take many photos at different times of day ...

I had a lovely vantage point for watercolor sketching   from the deck of the Craignair Inn.  I was at a  French Immersion workshop at...