Above: after many different ways of trying to depict the oak tree out my window, I ended up combining watercolor, ink, pastel pencils ...

I've been drawing & sketching iced tree formations. They might be "successful" sketches on some level but I left th...

5 1/2 by 7 1/2" watercolor on Arches hot press Several weeks ago I was charmed by the scene up on Harbor Hill, next to the Camden...

Just plain fun, buying the tree,  right from the woods, from a young man whose cheerfulness was contagious, who ...

The snow baubles (previous post) had company during today's snow storm. Beautifully formed white clumps added themselves to the bough...

So here I was, all focused on people-made Christmas decorations, when I glanced out the window & right before my eyes were the m...

Upon waking, the sky, for a brief moment,  glowed beautifully , a blue backdrop to a landscape  covered with yesterday's new fall...

Friday I played a recording of an accordion waltz at my French story time & we, parents, young children, librarian, danced & sp...

Meet my old Toddler Time Assistant. I had bought him at a "Bear Show" in southern Maine directly from his creator who had made ...

Journal page on 90 lb. Fabriano 9 X 12 cold press  Grateful for my holiday traveling north of Portland along the coast yesterday. This...

A late November walk at Moose Point.  I sketched with no glasses on & big old bulky gloves  because  it was C-O-O-O-L-D &...

This earth helped me to recite a poem  when I was a guest at our library  story time today. And this sun. Earth who gives...

   I needed to stop & look at how my brain feels this morning... To my surprise, it looks a bit like a Kandinsky painting!   ...

  Wanting to use some of my miniature paper scraps, I chose a theme source by closing my eyes & "blindly" pointing to one...

Miniature Sketch from October, 2013: 3 1/2" by 2 1/2 " This drawing has been kicking around in an unfinished state for ...