In 2014 & 2015 I did photo blog posts of the Common Ground Fair, one of my all time favorite events.  But this year I quick ske...

The sweet Gazebo down by The Harbor Walk in Belfast. (it's my impression, not realistic...) I sketched near "The Boathouse...

My old school in my old city,  The Language Exchange in Portland  just celebrated  20 years of the weekly French Breakfast,  Le ...

At the  Belfast Farmer's Market,  as summer begins greeting autumn. I arrived early & while watching vendors set up  a ...

  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...

Trying new tools: Rigger brush (love it!)  Pentel brush pen Arranging mini palettes in miniature homemade paint boxes  (more on tha...

I'm in a process of exploring color via my watercolors. Everywhere I go, I see color mixing charts, including at the Deer...

From my small Art Learning Sketch Journal For learning about drawing, sketching & watercolor, there are some amazing video...

I'm grateful to have things in my home  that make me happy. (I'm grateful to have a home, for that matter).  I recently ha...

Inspired by some books about Nature Journaling which I had brought to our Sketchers' Group, I found myself recently drawn to a chaoti...

I continue to enjoy my small Art Learning  Sketch Journal.  My first entries were at the Mel Stabin  workshop day  in Camden (see e...

For health reasons, I'm needing to spend a quiet weekend, near to home.  A friend & I did go to a quiet little Art Fair, in ...

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 &...

How pleasant it is to paint with a friend (who happens to live just down the road.) " T, want to come over to my house to play? ...